Pune: Satish Khot remembers the early days when he had to practically drag people to the Poona Club to talk about books. Today, The Book Club started by him and his wife Mohini in 2001, has blossomed into one of the city’s most cherished institutions. This month, the club completed 25 years — a milestone…
Pune: A special MCOCA court in the city on Friday granted bail to gangster Gajanan alias Gaja Marne in an organised crime case linked to the attack on a software engineer, who works for BJP’s online campaign, during Shiv Jayanti celebrations at Bhelke Chowk in Kothrud on Feb 19.Police had arrested a total of 10…
Pune: A senior consultant (35) with an IT firm suffered a stab wound to his rib as an SUV driver attacked him with a knife during an argument after the mirrors of the four-wheeler and the victim’s scooter brushed each other in Kharadi on Wednesday evening.The Kharadi police are looking for the SUV driver and…
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to probe why there is no GPS system in 318 garbage-carrying vehicles, hired from private contractors, which makes it difficult to track them for the distance covered every day. The move came after people complained that many waste disposal trucks and vans are dumping trash openly at…
Pune: A 27-year-old man from Khed taluka was shot dead by his friend-turned-foe on Thursday morning when he was going to Khed court with his wife.The Pune Rural police identified the deceased as Ketan Karle. The police said the murder was the result of a dispute between the victim and the accused. They were friends…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police have arrested three individuals involved in an online share-trading fraud that cost a senior official of an automotive company Rs 2.10 crore recently.The arrested trio included Harsh Bhadoriya (32), alias Fortune, of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Vishal Thakkar (28) of Thane, and Mohameed Patel (25) of Sangli. Bhadoriya was…
Pune: Deputy director of health, Pune, Bhagwan Pawar on Thursday revoked the suspension of liver transplant licence of Sahyadri Hospitals’ Deccan unit in the wake of an eight-member expert panel’s report concluding that there was no deficiency in treatment of the donor woman and her recipient husband, who died in Aug after a liver transplant…
Pune: A 19-year-old woman jumped to her death from the terrace of a ground-plus-four storeyed building in Budhwar Peth around 6.45pm on Thursday. She was residing in the same building along with her husband and parents-in-law, who run an eatery. Inspector Arun Ghodke of the Vishrambaug police said, “We have found a note purportedly written…
Pune: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday said that votes must be sought based on work and not by promising funds. He was expressing disappointment over politicians linking the flow of funds with votes.Speaking to reporters at his hometown Baramati, Pawar said, “For the upcoming civic polls, I came across some campaign speeches where…
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to complete the land acquisition for the Katraj-Kondhwa road widening project — to 50 metres — in a month’s time. “It will be over by the end of Dec. The administration will finish construction work by June or July next year,” PMC commissioner Naval Kishore Ram told…
