Pune: Police on Wednesday night arrested four people who allegedly damaged windows and glass panes of Sahyadri Hospital’s Hadapsar branch in the morning, following the death of a septuagenarian. Senior inspector Sanjay Mogle of Hadapsar police said the four arrested were Kunal Hanmant Sapkal (30), Gaurav Ganesh Sapkal (22), Shubham Sanjay Sapkal (25) and Vishwajit…
Pune: The Bhosari police have registered a case against a tax consultant and his colleague on the charge of cheating an engineering firm of Rs 10 lakh as they did not submit firm’s GST.The tax consultant took money from the firm between 2023 and 2025. The accused, however, did not pay the GST. An official…
Pune: Two bike-borne youths snatched a gold chain worth Rs 1.5 lakh from a 72-year-old woman while she wasreturning home from the market in Wakad on Tuesday night.The elderly woman lodged a complaint with the Wakad police on Wednesday.An officer from the Wakad police said on Tuesday night, the woman went to a vegetable vendor…
Pune: The Shri Kasba Ganapati Temple will remain closed to devotees from Dec 15 for around 15 days to facilitate the removal of the Shendur Lep (saffron coating) from the idol. The Kasba Ganapati is the gramdaivat or presiding deity of the city.According to the temple trustees, this process will be carried out for the…
Pune: National Insurance Academy’s India Marine Conclave 2025, a two-day event on the development of marine insurance in India, concluded at the NIA campus in Baner on Wednesday.The event was centred on the theme, ‘Navigating the Waves of Change, Exploring Marine Insurance Frontiers’. The conclave brought together leading insurers, brokers, surveyors, large corporate risk managers,…
Pune: A businessman and a retired govt officer collectively lost Rs 2.39 crore in online share trading frauds this year. Separate complaints were registered with the Pune cyber police in this regard on Tuesday.According to police, a 56-year-old factory owner from Kondhwa lost Rs 1.74 crore to cybercrooks between July and Oct this year.In July,…
Pune: An unknown girl and her four accomplices beat up a Bhugaon-based delivery person (28), who works with an e-commerce platform, and extorted Rs 10,000 by threatening to file a complaint under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act on Dec 7.The victim approached the Bharati Vidyapeeth police on Tuesday when they started harassing…
Pune: A motorcyclist (49) died after he crashed his bike into the rear of a parked truck and was run over by another truck after he fell off on Tuesday at Nighoje village in Khed taluka.The victim, Girish Kothawade, was on his way to work. The Mahalunge MIDC police have registered a case of causing…
Pune: The Union ministry of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) is set to establish three extension centres in Maharashtra — one each in Pune, Nagpur and Sindhudurg, additional development commissioner Sudha Keshari said on Wednesday.The three centres are part of a nationwide plan to set up 100 extension centres and 20 technology centres. “Our…
Pune: Memories of late vocalists Prabha Atre and Rajan Mishra came alive on the first day of Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav at Maharashtriya Mandal ground in Mukundnagar. And if that was not enough, the spirits of Ustad Allauddin Khan, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan and other stalwarts were present too.Chetana Pathak gave listeners…
