Pune: The Nigdi police late on Saturday nabbed a 27-year-old autorickshaw driver who snatched a minor girl’s gold pendant worth Rs 10,000 in Akurdi. The girl suffered minor injuries on her neck, police said.The police identified the accused as Kailas Khade of Chikhali. The girl’s mother (31) lodged a complaint against the accused. Pune Headlines…
Mumbai: BEST appears to have not have learned a lesson from the fatal bus tragedy of Dec 2024, just a little over a year ago, which left 9 dead and 40 injured. In the latest mishap at Bhandup, a full-time, experienced BEST driver lost control of a bus on Monday night, and 4 people lost…
JMI Shooting Player Secures Silver and Bronze at National Sikh Games Mukabir, a first-year B.A. (Hons.) History student at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) and a university shooting player, delivered a strong performance at the 7th National Sikh Games 2025–2026. The event was held at the Guns of Nations Shooting Sports Academy in Delhi from December…
Pune: A 14-year-old physically challenged girl was found dead inside her shanty at Sonesangvi village in Shirur taluka, about 60km from the city, on Sunday morning.While police suspected she was attacked by a wild animal or stray dogs, the forest department said the cause of death could only be ascertained after the forensic expert’s report….
Mumbai: A Mumbai lawyer on Tuesday approached the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC), urging it to take suo motu cognisance of a fatal accident involving a BEST bus and ensure an impartial inquiry into the tragedy.Four people were killed and nine others injured when a bus of the civic-run transport undertaking BEST crashed into…
New Delhi: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) along with Khelo Bharat will organise JNU Olympics 2.0, a university-level sports event, on the campus in Jan 2026.Registrations for the event are likely to begin on Jan 3, while the sports meet is likely to be held towards the end of Jan, the organisers said. The event…
Pune: The Bombay high court has suspended the life term sentence of two convicts in the 2014 murder of Mathadi Kamgar Sanghatana leader Prakash Laxman Chavan in Chinchwad and has granted them bail, pending the hearing of their criminal appeal against their conviction.A Pune sessions court on Nov 16, 2024, convicted and sentenced six accused…
Mumbai: For the past couple of years, Prashant Shinde (48) was a traffic warden in Ghatkopar. He was the only male victim of the Bhandup BEST bus accident.His brother, Rajesh, said Prashant was on his way back home when the bus struck him while he was standing in a queue to board another bus. He…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has convicted a man for the murder of his mother and brother in 2019, and sentenced him to life imprisonment, a police official said on Tuesday.The accused, Sunil Arora, was convicted by a Dwarka court on December 19 for killing his mother Lata Arora and younger brother Rajender Arora at…
Pune: When Vipin Raghavan began visiting industrial plants in Pune about a decade ago, the contrast between the digital world he came from and the factories he saw was striking. “It felt like these factories were operating in a different era,” he says. “There was so much scope for technology to make a difference, not…
