Pune: A shopkeeper from Bhawani Peth (28) ended up losing Rs41.2 lakh to online fraudsters in his pursuit to secure a loan for his business between June and Nov last year.Police said the scamsters got access to the shopkeeper’s pictures after offering him a loan on a low interest rate. The accused then morphed the…
Pune: NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Tuesday, continued his attack against the BJP, his Mahayuti ally, during the ongoing municipal corporation election campaign, alleging that the party did not value its cadre despite their good work. Pawar said that it was his party that has honoured their contributions by not only inducting them into the…
Pune: Six months after the state govt floated the e-bike taxi policy and invited players to start the service in Maharashtra, aggregators Uber, Ola and Rapido have largely maintained a silence following RTO Pune’s rejection of their application for the second time in Sept 2025.Pune deputy RTO Swapnil Bhosle said, “The companies’ applications were rejected…
Pune: The Vishrambaug police on Monday detained two minors (16), both from Bhawani Peth, on the charge of robbing gold jewellery worth Rs 42,000 after threatening a retired professor (61) in Sadashiv Peth with a sharp weapon around 9.45am on Saturday.The retired professor approached the police with his complaint immediately after the incident. The police…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said during a public function in Pune on Monday that surface-level road expansion had reached its limit in the city and mentioned the underground tunnel network proposal (including Yerawada-Katraj), saying such connectivity — described by him as a Paatal Lok model — was necessary to improve traffic flow.On Tuesday, a…
Pune: Audio clips of candidates on social media and campaign songs blaring from autorickshaws and vans are now familiar sounds. Campaigns by candidates across parties have intensified, and amid this political whirlwind, audio-visual artists are contributing across multiple formats, which include campaign songs, audio clips, videos, short documentaries of two to three minutes, street plays,…
Pune: Unindentified menbroke into the house of a grocery store owner in Rajgurunagar in Khed taluka and made off with cash and gold jewellery, collectively worth Rs 68 lakh, in the early hours of Jan 3when the family was away in Akkalkot in Solapur district.The grocery shopowner (59) from Pabal Road in Rajgurunagar lodged a…
Pune: Civic elections in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad have turned into a family contest in several wards, with political parties fielding local strongmen and their spouses, effectively turning campaigns into joint efforts aimed at securing each other’s victory. At least six husband-wife pairs are contesting the civic polls across party lines.The couples represent the same…
Pune: There is a surge in demand of booking choppers as political parties look forward to give their star campaigners maximum comfort while planning itineraries for rallies in different cities across Maharashtra. Polls to the 29 municipal corporations are scheduled to be conducted on Jan 15.Representatives of aviation firms said nearly 12 choppers had been…
Pune: In the fickle theatre of politics, Suresh Kalmadi‘s ascent was sudden. So was his decline.The fighter pilot-turned-youth Congress member clawed his way out of obscurity and hogged headlines not through a slow toil, but through a singular, theatrical act of defiance — throwing a shoe at the convoy of then Prime Minister Morarji Desai…
