PUNE: After months of remaining elusive, the fully grown male leopard, which was sighted multiple times at the Pune airport since April this year, was finally caught in the wee hours of Friday by a joint team of forest department and RESQCT members.Forest officials said that the carefully planned operation was assisted by the personnel…
Pune: The state prosecution on Thursday told a magisterial court that police were investigating possible cash transaction between arrested power of attorney (PoA)-holder Sheetal Tejwani and other accused in the Rs300 crore Mundhwa land parcel deal after a scrutiny of her bank account showed no entries related to the declared consideration for the land. Tejwani…
Pune: Thursday brought one of the chilliest Dec mornings for the city in at least a decade, with Pashan plunging to 7.7°C and Shivajinagar registering its second-lowest minimum temperature of 7.9°C for the month since 2019.Doctors said the harsher-than-usual winter had led to a noticeable rise in respiratory illnesses, particularly among children and the elderly….
Pune: A special MP/MLA court in the city on Thursday sought Rahul Gandhi‘s written response to an application by Satyaki Savarkar, who presented a couple of pen drives containing the Congress politician’s alleged defamatory speech against Hindutva icon Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, seeking that they be played in open court.Rahul Gandhi’s lawyer, Milind Pawar, orally objected…
Pune: It took hundreds of Punawale residents several years of protests, petitions and rallies against a proposed garbage depot on a green patch in their area. Finally, the project was officially cancelled by PCMC in 2025. Their unflinching agitation stands testament to the power of citizens’ voices, raised in unison.Not so far away, residents and…
Pune: Can rivers generate wealth? A recent study by TV Ramachandra, Paras Negi and Tulika Mondal from the energy and wetlands research group at the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, estimated that the Mula–Mutha river catchment generates ecosystem services worth Rs5,000 crore annually. The study was conducted in June…
Pune: It took five long days and enquiries in multiple cities for US resident Medhaa Nadgir to get her luggage returned to her, after it went missing amid the ongoing IndiGo crisis. Nadgir had checked in her two bags into a flight to Bengaluru on Dec 4, which was then cancelled. For a few days,…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday approved 220 development projects worth Rs 32,523 crore for the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR), signalling a major push for coordinated urban expansion. Fadnavis was speaking at the fifth meeting of the Pune Metropolitan Planning Committee (PMPC) meeting held at the Legislature’s Council Hall in Nagpur. Deputy chief ministers…
Pune: The court of additional sessions judge MG Chavan on Wednesday rejected the bail application of Gaurav Mahesh Naidu (25), who is accused of attempting to kill his former girlfriend, a 23-year-old MBA intern, by trying to open fire at her on the premises of her workplace in Baner on Aug 29 this year. The…
Pune: Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq, documentary filmmaker Siddhartha Kak, astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and Grammy Award winner Ricky Kej are among the prominent people who will make an appearance at the Pune Book Festival to be held from Dec 13 to 21 at the Fergusson College grounds.Organised by the National Book Trust, the festival will…
