Pune: The Pune district administration on Thursday announced that a standard operating procedure (SOP) for the ready-mix concrete (RMC) industry will be prepared within the next three weeks, while also imposing interim restrictions on the movement of RMC transport vehicles to tackle rising pollution and traffic congestion across Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad.The decisions were taken…
Pune: An original theatre production, Pahinjo Kirdaar, offers a poignant exploration of Sindhi identity built from memory, research, and lived experience. Conceived by Saaz Aggarwal, a biographer and oral historian of Sindhi culture, and developed with director Nikhil Katara, the project is the culmination of 15 years of research into the community’s history.The title, which…
Pune: The preliminary work of the drinking water supply project in all merged areas in the Pune civic limits is likely to start by August.Pune municipal commissioner Naval Kishore Ram on Wednesday said the work had started in some areas like Wagholi and Sus-Bavdhan. The work is expected to begin by August in the remaining…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: IAS officer and Beed’s former district collector Avinash Prabhakar Pathak (55) was arrested on Thursday from his Latur residence in an alleged Rs310 crore scam involving fabricated backdated orders, forged files and documents to facilitate enhanced compensation in land acquisition for the Dhule-Solapur National Highway project passing through Beed district.Pathak is the fourth…
Pune: Police took 65-year-old Bhimrao Kamble — arrested in the alleged rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Nasrapur on May 1 — to the crime scene around 3.30am on Wednesday to reconstruct the sequence of events in a bid to file a strong chargesheet in the case within a fortnight.Pune superintendent of police…
Pune: A 62-year-old daily wage worker was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday on the charge of attempting to rape his granddaughter, a Std III student, around 8.30pm on Tuesday in his hutment.The Parvati police on Wednesday afternoon produced him before a city court and he was remanded him in police custody till May…
Pune: A constable posted at the Koregaon Park police station bit a businessman before pushing and hitting three personnel of the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Pune, during a trap operation at a housing society on Boat Club Road on Wednesday afternoon.The ACB personnel later arrested the constable for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs…
PUNE: Several students of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, protested on Monday and Tuesday after multiple first-year examinees were allegedly “subject to non-consensual body contact, including frisking, pat-downs, and even a harrowing strip-search”.According to an email sent by the general secretary of the IISER Student Council, a first-year girl student was called…
Pune: The court of additional sessions judge, Sumit G Joshi, on Tuesday sentenced a 73-year-old watchman to life imprisonment for murdering his wife and walking on a road with her severed head in 2015, holding that the prosecution proved the charge beyond reasonable doubt through consistent eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence.Holding that the prosecution had…
Pune: The Paud police on Tuesday arrested an ice cream vendor on the charge of molesting a 14-year-old girl in a village in Mulshi taluka on Monday.The suspect, Pintu Shivkumar (28), currently resides at Sus. He is originally from Kannauj district in Uttar Pradesh. The police arrested him under Section 74 (assault or criminal force…
