Pune: Registration officials on Monday said the issues affecting Aadhaar-based online verification for property registrations have been caused by a technical problem at the state department of information technology (DIT) and not by any fault at UIDAI, adding that steps are being taken to resolve the glitch at the earliest.People across Maharashtra have been facing…
Pune: The conviction rate for cases tried before Sessions and Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) courts showed a mixed but improving trend in 2025, with higher conviction numbers and percentages compared to the previous year, even as the total number of cases varied.In Sessions Courts, 351 cases were disposed of in 2025, compared to 334…
Pune: The city witnessed a spike in house break-ins and chain snatchings in 2025 as against last year, but crimes against women, including rape, registered a slight decline, annual crime report released by Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar showed on Monday.Chain-snatching cases rose to 127 this year from 103 last year and house break-ins increased…
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: New apartment sales declined 20% this year largely because of tariffs imposed by the US and lay-offs in the IT sector, leading market research agencies and property consultants said. Anarock Group chairman Anuj Puri said 2025 has been a year of broad-spectrum upheaval, including geopolitical turmoil, layoffs in the IT sector, tariff tensions and…
Pune: Rape and molestation cases, which had surged in 2024 as compared to 2023, have shown a slight decline this year, Pune police’s annual crime report for 2025 showed on Monday. “After the Bopdev Ghat and Swargate bus stand rape cases, we implemented several proactive measures to curb crimes against women. These included vulnerability mapping…
Pune: No official list was not declared, but many former BJP corporators and local leaders filed their nominations for the PMC election on Monday. Over 100 BJP candidates filed their nominations as the party picked new faces and dropped several ex-corporators who have been members of the standing committee, law committee, and women and child…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Saturday arrested an externed criminal (25) on the charge of raping a 40-year-old woman on Dec 18 and suspended a constable attached to the Bhosari MIDC police, given the responsibility to keep watch on his activities during his externment period. The accused, Farukh Shaikh of Balajinagar in Bhosari, was…
Pune: A 72-year-old retired Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) official from Baramati taluka was allegedly duped of Rs 28 lakh in a digital arrest fraud between Nov 30 and Dec 13 this year. The fraudsters not only made him transfer all his savings, but also forced him to mortgage his gold jewellery. The…
Pune: In a dimly lit theatre of Bharat Natya Mandir on Sunday evening, Pune-based Sir Parashurambhau College’s one-act play unfolded and explored what happens when the casual acceptance of parents towards the LGBTQIA+ community collides with their own child coming out as one. Aatlya Gaathi dived head-first into a generational divide and emerged as the…
