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…
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….
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…
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…
Pune: High-performance workstations powered by AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper PRO processors are seeing rising adoption in India’s creative and financial industries, as studios and enterprises seek faster, more reliable computing for complex workloads.Over the past year, demand for professional workstations grew across VFX, animation, architecture, and design firms, as well as in banking and financial services….
Pune: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in Pune seized several exotic animals smuggled on a flight from Bangkok, officials said. Sources said seven animals, including rare monkeys, were recovered, though one monkey was found dead. The IndiGo flight landed in Pune at 3.26 am, and a man and a woman were caught attempting to…
Pune: From triple-seat rides and daredevil wrong-side sprints to booze-fuelled drives, one-way rebellions, signal defiance, cellphone-induced chaos and even audacious footpath invasions — traffic offences by motorists on city roads appear unending, showed the annual crime figures released by Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar on Monday.From Jan to Dec 23 this year, the city registered…
Pune: Share market scams and investment frauds dominated Pune’s cybercrime charts this year, but there’s a silver lining. Annual data released by the Pune police on Monday showed that both the number of cases and the total financial losses plunged to nearly half of last year’s figures. Legal experts, however, attributed the drop largely to…
Pune: Reported crimes involving juveniles (under 18 years) in Pune city witnessed a clear decline in 2025.Annual crime data shared by Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar on Monday showed that the city recorded 368 cases involving 710 juveniles in 2025, compared to 446 cases with 750 juveniles in 2024 and 414 cases involving 666 minors…
Pune: Fatal accidents reduced to 287 in 2025 (till Dec 22) from 334 each in 2023 and 2024, and 315 in 2022 despite increasing traffic density and congestion across the city, data released on Monday showed.Correspondingly, deaths caused by road accidents fell to 302 this year, compared to 351 in 2023 and 345 in 2024,…
