Pune: Not all you meet, especially virtually, are friends indeed. One such “friendship” through social media allegedly cost a 16-year-old girl from Koregaon Park her life.The Koregaon Park police are searching for a man from Belagavi in Karnataka, accused of driving the Std X student to death by suicide. The man allegedly kept calling and…
Pune: The search for leopards spotted in the airport and Aundh continued on Wednesday, while the forest department authorities reported no visual confirmation of their presence throughout the day.Teams on the ground are maintaining caution and persistence, hoping to trace the elusive big cat(s). According to the Pune forest division, the surveillance strategy implemented in…
Pune: A new generation of leopards in the state are rewriting the rules of human–wildlife interaction. Forest officials in the Junnar landscape now acknowledge a striking reality: most leopards found in this region and neighbouring districts are not “forest cats” anymore. They are born, raised, and fully adapted to life in sugar cane fields and…
Pune: The civic body has begun installing iron railings along a 1.2-km stretch of the busy East Street. The initiative is part of the preparations for the Pune Grand Cycle Tour 2026, a major international competition scheduled from Jan 19 to 24 next year. The race will cover 436 km, with a critical segment passing…
Pune: Short-distance flights between Pune and Mumbai are environmentally disastrous, especially given the robust infrastructure connecting the two cities, said former Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) chairman Shrikant Vaidya on Tuesday. “Flying is extremely harmful to the environment from the point of view of greenhouse gases. In fact, I was just doing a study… I think…
Pune: Koregaon Park police on Wednesday claimed to have busted an illegal call centre involved in cheating citizens of the US by promising them cheap loans, following the arrest of five people, including a woman, during an early morning raid. The call centre was operating from a flat in a housing society in lane no….
Pune: Anti-corruption bureau (ACB) sleuths on Tuesday evening arrested an education sub-inspector at the divisional deputy director’s office in Pune when he was accepting Rs 1 lakh in bribe from a Solapur-based teacher to issue her a Shalarth ID. “We had been fighting for an ID for the last five years. We got justice only…
Pune: The Bhosari police are searching for three men who duped an autorickshaw driver of Rs 20.40 lakh on the promise of giving him good returns on his investments. The accused took Rs 36 lakh from him between 2022 and Nov 2025. During this period, they returned Rs 15.60 lakh to him and duped him….
Pune: State revenue minister and senior BJP member Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday said that all the differences within the Mahayuti during the poll campaign will be resolved after the election results on Dec 3.He said, “After the results on Dec 3, our coordinating committee for every district will bring members of all the alliance partners…
Pune: Working president of NCP (SP) Supriya Sule has written to State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare expressing concern over the trend of many candidates winning unopposed in the first phase of the local bodies polls. She called it a threat to democracy and demanded that SEC take cognisance of the complaints of threats issued to…
