Pune: Four youngsters hacked an unemployed teenager to death over an old rivalry at Jijau Oxygen Park in Chandanagar around 7pm on Saturday in the presence of some visitors and fled, once again exposing the city’s deteriorating law and order situation. Police identified the victim as Lakhan Sakat (18) from Chandannagar. A friend accompanying him…
Pune: As many as 42 IndiGo flights cancelled between midnight and 5am, wild goose chase for checked-in baggage — distressed flyers were stretched beyond the limit of their patience on Saturday.Of the cancelled flights, a total of 28 were departures. IndiGo announced cancellation of 50 flights for Sunday. Hundreds of stranded flyers were clueless about…
Pune: From Latur to Nanded and Beed to Dharashiv, the same story keeps surfacing: a sudden, sonic boom-like sound that seems to tear through the sky, shakes homes, but leaves no trace on the earth below.In Sangola, where the latest and loudest of these blasts have been reported, the fear has been real enough for…
Pune: Two people laced cold drink of a digital marketing professional, whose car they had pooled till Nashik, and robbed him of Rs 5.66 lakh.The victim had lodged a complaint with the Nashik Road police on July 27 after he regained consciousness. The FIR was transferred to Bund Garden police on Friday for further investigation.The…
Pune: The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB), Pune, on Friday arrested a govt-appointed liquidator and a panel member for demanding a bribe of Rs 8 crores.The ACB identified the liquidator, Vinod Manikrao Deshmukh (50) of Vadgaon Khurd on Sinhagad Road and the panel member, Bhaskar Pol (56) of Narhe. They were allegedly demanding the bribe from…
Pune: The faded memory of a school, Google maps and an unsolved case helped Regional Mental Hospital in Yerawada reunite a man with learning difficulties, who was serving prison time at the facility before his acquittal on Nov 14, with his family after 12 years.Shivam (55), a resident of Haridwar, went missing following the Kedarnath…
Pune: Parts of Maharashtra, including Pune, are likely to experience the second chill of the season early next week, with minimum temperatures dropping by 2–3°C, stated a forecast by the Met department.An India Meteorological Department (IMD) official said minimum temperatures are likely to dip gradually in the next three to four days. “The drop in…
Pune: Two adult leopards are sharing a 250sqm enclosure at the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre, an arrangement that the Junnar forest division attributes to severe space crunch at the facility though it violates central guidelines. Set up for a maximum 45 leopards, the facility is currently home to 113 big cats, its highest tally in…
Pune: More than half of the city’s cooperative housing societies do not have legal ownership of the land they occupy, a critical gap that stalls redevelopment and limits property rights. According to the state cooperative department, 52% — or 11,956 of 22,955 registered societies — are yet to obtain their conveyance or deemed conveyance deeds….
Pune: Studying conditions in hundreds of abhyasikas and the cramped living spaces in the old city areas have been a concern for many years. The constant increase in the number of students has also put stress on local infrastructure, according to residents of the areas who met additional municipal commissioner Prithviraj B P earlier this…
