Pune: More than 30 housing societies and complexes in the Sus Road-Baner area have placed a list of 19 demands before the candidates contesting the Jan 15 poll to the Pune Municipal Corporation. Safer travel and improvements in public transport, augmentation in daily water supply to reduce dependency on tankers, and provision of a police…
Pune: City Member of Parliament (MP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary Muralidhar Mohol on Thursday claimed that the city’s Metro project proposal failed to move ahead in the 2001–2014 period when the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was in power at Centre and Ajit Pawar was the district guardian minister. Delays in approvals also led…
Pune: Elections to 12 Zilla Parishads (ZPs) across as many districts and 125 panchayat samitis in the state are likely to be announced early next week, with the State Election Commission (SEC) racing against time to meet the Supreme Court’s Jan 31 deadline for completing all pending local body polls. Sources in the SEC on…
Pune: Additional Sessions Judge Sucheta M Takalikar on Jan 5 granted a default bail to police sub-inspector (PSI) Pramod Ravindra Chintamani, who is facing trial in Rs46.5 lakh bribery case, as the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) failed to submit a chargesheet against him within 60 days as required by law.The public prosecutor, representing the state, told…
Pune: Heavens are not going to fall if the accused refrains himself from entering Pune city limits during the (civic) election times, special judge SS Kanthale said on Wednesday while rejecting gangster Gajanan alias Gaja Marne’s plea to relax his bail condition that restrains him from entering the PMC limits.Marne sought the relief on the…
Pune: Wagholi police are searching for two men from Shirur on the charge of cheating a private financial institution by securing a gold loan worth Rs5.32 lakhs after mortgaging imitation jewellery.The manager (43) of the Wagholi branch of the financial firm lodged a complaint of cheating against the duo with the police on Tuesday.According to…
Pune: A police sub-inspector (30), who was currently posted at Tasgaon in Sangli district, was found dead in a lodge room around 1.30pm on Wednesday.According to the Deccan Gymkhana police, the sub-inspector consumed poison to end his life.Senior police inspector Girisha Nimbalkar of Deccan Gymkhana police told TOI, “We found a note in his room…
Pune: The number of garbage fires in the city rose by more than 20% in 2025 as compared to the previous year, with an equally worrying spike in grass fires, data shared by the Pune fire brigade showed on Wednesday.According to the figures, 735 garbage fires were reported in 2025, up from 636 in 2024….
Pune: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar-led NCP on Wednesday targeted BJP over the lack of basic infrastructure in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad and highlighted five issues — pathetic roads and traffic congestion, water shortage, inefficient healthcare, poor garbage management, and deterioration of environment — as part of its campaign for the Jan 15 polls to…
Pune: The Vishrantwadi police on Wednesday afternoon exhumed the body of 17-year-old Amansingh Gachand, a resident of Vishrantwadi, from a forested hilly area near Gogalwadi off the Khed-Shivapur–Saswad road.Inspector Sampatrao Raut of Vishrantwadi police said the process to exhume the body was carried out in the presence of the local tehsildar and witnesses. “The arrested…
