Pune: Leopard-related incidents are being reported across Pune, Ahilyanagar, and Nashik districts, prompting experts and senior officials of the state forest department to stress he urgent need for a comprehensive leopard census in affected regions. The officials are saying that updated and reliable data on leopard population, movement patterns, and habitat distribution is now essential…
Pune: Police and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Tuesday enforced a speed limit of 30 kmph for all vehicles between the Swaminarayan temple and Vadgaon Bridge — a stretch of one km — on Katraj Dehu Road bypass. “We imposed fines on 150 vehicles for violation using a speed gun at Bhumkar…
Pune: A special court under POCSO Act in the city has convicted and sentenced a 24-year-old man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly raping a 14-year-old girl between Feb 13 and Feb 26, 2021, in Chandannagar area. According to the case put up by the prosecution, the accused (a college student, aged 22 years…
PUNE: A general insurance company and a truck owner have been directed to pay Rs 10.9 crore compensation to the kin of a Mumbai businessman who died in multi-vehicle crash on Pune-Mumbai expressway on Jan 9, 2012.A motor accident claims tribunal in Pune ordered the compensation to be paid with 7.5% per annum interest from…
Pune: Fresh pugmarks were found inside a nullah in Aundh’s Sindh Society on Monday evening, leading the forest department to expand its monitoring as it continued tracking the leopard that had wandered into the heart of the city on Sunday. Now, the search has been widened across the drainage channel and adjoining hill terrain. A…
Pune: PMRDA has missed its extended deadline to prepare draft plans for 15 town planning (TP) schemes along the 128-km inner ring road.A senior official attributed the delay to sustained opposition from villagers and continued uncertainty over the long-pending Maan–Mhalunge model TP scheme. The statutory deadline ended on Monday, but officials confirmed that Pune Metropolitan…
Pune: A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has directed a general insurance company and the owner of a truck to pay Rs10.95 crore compensation, with interest at 7.5% per annum from March 1, 2016 — the date of filing of petition — to the parents, wife, two daughters and a minor son of a businessman…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has directed a ready-mix cement (RMC) plant at Wadgaon Budruk to deposit Rs 29.68 lakh as environmental damage compensation (EDC) within a month with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for violating pollution norms. The bench said that the amount should be utilised for environmental improvement…
Pune: A special drive of the Pimpri Chinchwad police against the influx of firearms in the twin city led to the seizure of as many as eight country-made firearms and 11 cartridges within four days.The police also arrested seven men and detained a minor in this regard. Action was taken in Chakan, Talegaon, Mhalunge MIDC,…
Pune: A day after he made an oblique reference to his close associate Valmik Karad who was arrested in the Massajog sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh’s murder case, the opposition criticised former cabinet minister and senior NCP member Dhananjay Munde.During a poll rally in Beed district’s Parli on Monday, Munde, without naming Karad, said that the court…
