Pune: Election officials late on Tuesday estimated that polling in the first phase of local body elections held in Maharashtra could well cross 60% as voters queued up in numbers to elect their representatives to 264 local bodies. The final voting figures were yet to be declared at the time of going to press, but…
Pune: The 16-year-old girl who suffered critical injuries after being hit by a private company’s bus in Hinjewadi on Monday evening succumbed to her injuries during treatment later that night. The deceased, Priya Deven Prasad (16), had lost her younger brother Suraj (6) and sister Archana (9), in the same accident, when they were killed…
Pune: The fresh claim of a leopard sighting near Ramnadi in Bavdhan early on Tuesday triggered a large rush that hampered search operations, prompting forest officials to appeal to citizens not to gather at potential leopard-movement spots. Former corporator of the area Dilip Vede-Patil said he received a call early on Tuesday that a resident…
Pune: The civic body has decided to map all sewage treatment plants (STPs) established in private housing societies to verify their use and efficiency after it was observed that the majority of the approximately 600 societies that have installed these plants are not following prescribed norms.Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has made it mandatory for large…
Pune: The Bombay high court on Nov 28 suspended a Pune sessions court’s March 23, 2022, judgement which had convicted and sentenced a 28-year-old man to 15 years of rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly raping a 17-year-old girl over five months before Aug 14, 2018, at an open space behind a bungalow in Pimple Nilakh.The HC…
Pune: The Kothrud police on Tuesday arrested a member of the Nilesh Ghaywal gang and seized 200 live cartridges, along with 200 spent shells. Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said, “The suspect, Ajay Sarode (35) of Kothrud, was wanted in two attempted murder cases registered at the Kothrud police station. He has now been arrested…
Pune: State Election Commission (SEC) has directed all returning officers (ROs) to enforce round-the-clock security for nearly 50,000 EVMs stored across taluka-level strongrooms for the next 19 days. Counting for all 288 municipal councils and nagar panchayats is now scheduled on Dec 21. This includes the 264 civic bodies that went to the polls on…
Pune: The Sant Tukaramnagar police on Sunday registered a case against a man and his son from Chikhali on the charge of duping nine people of Rs20 lakh after promising to help them obtain homes at cheaper rates in govt and private schemes. The duo took money from the victims between July last year and…
Pune: The Talegaon Dabhade police on Sunday registered one more case against a medical practitioner for duping an insurance company of Rs 3.5 lakh by creating fake claims of patients.A branch manager of a private insurance company lodged a complaint with the Talegaon Dabhade police. Last month, the same accused and another medical practitioner were…
Pune: Parts of central India, including Maharashtra, face a higher probability of below-normal minimum temperatures this winter (Dec 2025-Feb 2026), India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its seasonal outlook on Monday.IMD’s report, which used a multi-model ensemble system, projected that maximum temperatures were expected to be largely normal to below normal across much of the…
