Pune: Pune experienced thundershowers on Saturday, but with much lesser intensity than Friday’s heavy downpour, with rainfall mainly limited to south Pune areas.According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), Girivan recorded the highest rainfall of 22mm between 8.30am and 5.30pm on Saturday, followed by Chinchwad (13.5mm) and Bhor (12mm). Other areas that received some rain included…
Mumbai: In a resounding shift, the ministry of finance eased a long-standing bottleneck in procurement rules that once tethered researchers to the govt e-Marketplace (GeM), now allowing them to source scientific equipment and consumables from outside it. The revision in monetary ceilings and procurement channels, officials say, required the direct intervention of Prime Minister Narendra…
New Delhi: A Delhi court, while sentencing a man to life imprisonment for attempting to murder a 5-year-old child in 2017, observed that the conduct of the man did not deserve any leniency.The court of Additional Sessions Judge Amit Sahrawat, on June 4, noted that the man inflicted several stone blows on the head of…
Pune: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday urged MVA partners to contest civic body polls jointly, echoing their alliance strategy in the Lok Sabha and assembly elections, despite Mahayuti partners considering solo bids in local body polls.Following the Supreme Court’s directives, state govt has confirmed that all the pending elections of civic bodies will…
Mumbai: Taking note of the rising cases of women being cheated on matrimonial sites, a sessions court recently convicted and sentenced a 44-year-old man, Jayendra Moranjan, also known by aliases such as Chetak Bhavsar, Sachin Misal, and Rahul Patil, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment. He was found guilty of repeatedly raping a nurse on…
New Delhi: A 30-year-old man was apprehended in Ghaziabad for allegedly sending death threats to Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta. The accused was identified as a resident of the Panchvati area in Ghaziabad. Officials stated that he was under the influence of alcohol during the incident and acted out of frustration over ongoing family disputes.Originally…
Pune: As many as 20 different types of cyber fraud cases had been registered at Baner police station in just more than a month, said senior police inspector Chandrashekhar Sawant in an interaction with people on Saturday. Sawant said that other physical crimes had gone down. “In Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, at least Rs2.5 crore…
Mumbai: A special court on Thursday granted permission to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to record the statements of eight individuals currently held in judicial custody at Arthur Road Jail. This is in connection with an ongoing investigation into the Rs 122 crore New India Cooperative Bank scam.The order allowed an assistant director and two ED…
In a touching scene from the 1983 blockbuster Coolie, protagonist Iqbal (Amitabh Bachchan) plans to go for Haj and pray for the recovery of his seriously ill mother. However, just before boarding the passenger ship for Jeddah, he is stopped from travelling as he is suffering from a fever. Iqbal gives his ticket to a…
Pune: The Wanowrie police are investigating a complaint registered by a 35-year-old woman, wife of a Border Security Force (BSF) constable, on Thursday stating that a conman, under the pretext of helping her secure a job as a clerk at the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB), duped her of Rs 4.38 lakh between Nov 2023 and…
