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Nashik/Mumbai: Senior NCP minister Manikrao Kokate was divested of all his ministerial portfolios on Wednesday, hours after a court in Nashik issued warrants for his and his brother Vijay’s arrest in a 1995 EWS housing quota cheating case. A day earlier, a sessions court in Nashik upheld the trial court’s Feb 20 judgment convicting and…

Pune: Fuelled by ambition and aided by artificial intelligence, two MBA graduates allegedly transformed their rented Hinjewadi apartment into a covert hydroponic marijuana grow room. With raw material supplied by two Mumbai-based contacts, their operation quickly evolved into a city-wide drug network dealing in nine different synthetic substances.Their empire, however, came crashing down when a…

Pune: The opposition on Wednesday night said convicted minister Manikrao Kokate should be disqualified with immediate effect, following the Mahayuti govt’s decision to allocate his sports portfolio to deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.Former leader of the opposition in the legislative council, Ambadas Danve, said, “When a person in a constitutional post is convicted by a…

Pune: Fuelled by ambition and aided by artificial intelligence, two MBA graduates allegedly transformed their rented Hinjewadi apartment into a covert hydroponic marijuana grow room. With raw material supplied by two Mumbai-based contacts, their operation quickly evolved into a city-wide drug network dealing in nine different synthetic substances.Their empire, however, came crashing down when a…

Pune: Doctors at Manipal Hospital, Baner, successfully saved the life of a three-day-old baby diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal congenital condition — intestinal malrotation with midgut volvulus — through timely diagnosis and emergency surgery.The baby, born at the hospital, was stable immediately after birth. However, on the second day, doctors noticed difficulty in…

Pune: Shiv Sena (UBT) on Wednesday demanded the resignation of deputy chief minister and Shiv Sena president Eknath Shinde, alleging his brother’s links with a drugs manufacturing unit in Satara, which was recently busted by Mumbai police.A resort in Satara’s Sawari village is owned by Shinde’s brother, Prakash Shinde, which is close to a makeshift…

Pune: A three-day international conference on virology and public health, VIROCON 2025, was held in the city between Dec 8 and 10.It was hosted by the Indian Council of Medical Research – National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV), Pune, in collaboration with the NIV Research Foundation and the Indian Virological Society (IVS).The conference was themed Changing…

Pune: Vijay Diwas was commemorated with customary military solemnity at the Southern Command war memorial on Monday.The day, celebrated on Dec 16, marked 54 years of India’s decisive victory in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War. Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth, Southern Army commander, led the observance in the presence of serving personnel and veterans of the Army,…

Pune: The crime branch of Pune police arrested Ganesh alias Suraj Ashok Vadda (30), an Andekar gang member of Mangalwar Peth, on Monday from Bhudargad in Kolhapur.Police were searching for him for the last 2 years. A team headed by deputy commissioner of police (crime) Nikhil Pingale arrested Vadda in an attempt to murder case…

Pune: Three men, working with a solar panel service firm, suffered injuries after a motorcycle they were riding triple seat was hit by a container truck at a grade separator in Chinchwad on the Pune-Mumbai highway in the early hours of Monday.Two of them were severely injured. They were admitted in separate hospitals for treatment.An…