Pune: The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is likely to earmark an outlay of around Rs 6,000 crore soon for land acquisition for the proposed Purandar airport, sources in the state govt told TOI on Saturday. The Pune district administration has already sent the proposal, and the file is in the final stages of clearance,…
Pune: A 20-year-old wanted criminal suffered a bullet injury to his left thigh in an exchange of gunfire between police and him at Awhalwadi in Chandannagar around 6.30pm on Saturday.Police said criminal Omkar Dilip Bhandare fired the first shot in a crowded area, prompting the officers chasing him to retaliate. One bullet struck his left…
Pune: Shiv Sena (UBT) member Aditya Thackeray on Saturday said BJP has no concrete development work to show and hence it is changing names of projects introduced by the previous govt to present them as its own. He made this statement in reference to the Centre renaming MGNREGS as VB-G RAM G.“BJP is the world’s…
Pune: An 80-year-old retired personnel officer of a prominent automobile company lost Rs1 crore to cybercrooks after they digitally arrested him and falsely claimed that he was involved in a money laundering case to instil fear in his mind. An officer from the Pune cyber police said the retired officer, a resident of Kasba Peth,…
Pune: The Wanowrie police are searching for an autorickshaw driver and his two accomplices on the charge of attacking a minibus driver with an iron rod after the three-wheeler brushed against the latter’s vehicle near the Racecourse on Wednesday evening.An officer from the Wanowrie police said the bus driver, Sachin Ingle (40) of Phursungi, was…
Pune: Police on Thursday arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with the murder of his ex-partner’s husband (22) in Malshiras village near Jejuri on Dec 13.Superintendent of police (Pune Rural) Sandeep Singh Gill said the accused was not happy with his ex-partner’s marriage to the victim. “He hatched a plot to eliminate her husband and…
Pune: Police on Wednesday seized 24 reels of nylon manja worth Rs 36,000 from a youth in Pimprigaon. A search is underway for a man from Dapodi, who supplied the manja.An officer from Pimpri police said the crime branch received a tip-off that a youth from Pimpri was selling nylon manja in a building, which…
Pune: A fire that broke out in an open space behind a restaurant at Silver Oak Society in Kalyaninagar on Friday morning spread to the restaurant’s external chimney, fire brigade officials said, ruling out the possibility that the blaze originated inside the eatery. No injuries were reported.The incident occurred around 10.15-10.30 am. Fire brigade personnel…
Pune: With less than a month left for the poll to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), ticket aspirants across party lines are busy preparing manifestos and promise lists, which they plan to present to people in the next few days. Many have started circulating manifestos also through social media platforms, while former corporators seeking candidatures…
Pune: NCP (SP) state president Shashikant Shinde on Friday said until a collaboration between Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS for civic polls is decided, an alliance formula of MVA partners going together cannot be finalised. He said his party would declare its stance on an alliance on Dec 21.Shinde was in Pune, where he held…
