Pune: The city’s motor vehicle court on Monday sentenced two men to 15-day simple imprisonment, along with fines, after it found them guilty of drunk driving.According to the city traffic police, a man (29) from Sinhagad Road was caught for drunk driving in October 2024. Another man (29) from Pimple Gurav was found driving in…
Pune: India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for Konkan and Madhya Maharashtra on Sept 26 and 27, warning of heavy to very heavy rain in isolated places as a fresh depression forms over the Bay of Bengal.According to an IMD bulletin issued Tuesday, a low-pressure area persists over coastal areas of Gangetic…
Pune: Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has been collecting one of the highest water rates from companies in Kharadi Knowledge Park.MIDC is charging companies in the knowledge park Rs 104.75 per cubic metre (per 1,000 litres), which is significantly higher compared to industrial areas in Mumbai, where the rates range between Rs 25-26, and Rs…
Pune: A 48-year-old scooter driver died after a pickup truck knocked him down when he tried to cross a mini-truck on the Pune-Mumbai highway on Monday morning at Wadgaon Maval. The victim, Chand Mulla of Kamshet, was driving towards Dehu Road for work. The Kamshet police have registered a case of causing death by negligence…
Pune: An IndiGo flight from Pune to Kolkata in the wee hours of Tuesday was diverted to Bhubaneswar following heavy rain in the West Bengal capital affected operations at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport. The flight (6E-6921) took off from Pune at 12.35am and was to land in Kolkata at 3.10am. Sources said the…
PUNE/KOLHAPUR: The Pune-Solapur highway traffic was closed since the early hours of Wednesday at Lamboti bridge near Mohol town due to the Sina River water flooding the area. Vehicles were being diverted via Tembhurni, Kruduwadi and Barshi. The floods caused by heavy rain over the last couple of days have disrupted road and rail traffic,…
Pune: Faraskhana police on Tuesday arrested four men who, on behalf of the Andekar gang, allegedly collected monthly extortion money from vendors at the unauthorised fish market in Ganesh Peth.Based on the fish traders’ statements and the subsequent registration of an FIR, police said gangster Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar and his aides, including his family…
Pune: Two workers of a construction site were arrested from an express train at Kalyan railway station and their supervisor’s three-year-old daughter rescued on Monday night.The Airport police said they had kidnapped the child after their supervisor fired them around 5pm on Monday. Senior inspector Govind Jadhav of the Airport police told TOI: “The girl…
Pune: Activists from the city unit of Patit Pavan Sanghatana (PPS) have claimed that a part of the false ceiling of Balgandharva Rangmandir Art Gallery fell on Wednesday morning. “A part of the false ceiling came down unexpectedly. At the time of the incident, there was no one at the art gallery, but the incident…
Pune: PMPML’s ongoing test run of a double-decker bus ran into trouble as overgrown tree branches on the roads caused hindrance to the ride. At present, the test run of the double-decker bus is under way on four routes. The problem of overgrown tree branches was encountered particularly on the route between Ramwadi Metro station…
