Pune: Five men, including a local journalist, were arrested on Saturday on the charge of extorting Rs45,000 from an eatery owner by posing as policemen. The Mahalunge MIDC police arrested the accused under sections 308 (extortion), 204 (personating a public servant), and 333 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault, or wrongful restraint) of the Bharatiya…
PUNE: The Global Conference on Wireless, Computing & Networking (GCWCN 2025), held on November 22–23, 2025, at the Corporate Training Center (CTC), STES’s Campus, Sinhgad Institute of Technology, Kusgaon (Bk), Lonavala, concluded with remarkable participation from researchers, academicians, and technology leaders from across the globe. Organized in hybrid mode, the event provided an impactful platform…
PUNE: City-based Greenex Environmental has signed a strategic international collaboration agreement with Norway-based EPD Global to offer services in the area of publishing Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). The announcement was made by Sagar Ahiwale and Arati Bhosale-Ahiwale, joint Managing Directors of the company, at a news conference held on Monday, Nov 24, after signing a…
Pune: The ongoing investigation into the supply of illegal firearms from Umrati village in Madhya Pradesh revealed that the Pune-based Andekar gang was actively procuring weapons from middlemen linked to the manfacturing units there and sold them off further, deputy commissioner of police (zone IV) Somay Munde said on Monday.“During the probe into the recent…
Pune: A new and alarming trend has emerged in several villages of Junnar tehsil, where groups of locals are venturing out after dark in four-wheelers to watch leopards in the wild. The practice — locally dubbed “night leopard safari” — has surged in popularity in the last few months, raising serious concerns among forest authorities…
Pune: Wildlife experts have said that the leopard spotted in Aundh’s RBI Colony in the early hours of Sunday may have walked along the Mula river from forested defence land to reach the spot. The animal most likely followed a narrow but continuous ecological corridor that links the College of Military Engineering (CME)–Bopkhel defence forests…
Pune: Pune collector Jitendra Dudi has directed all revenue officials — from circle officers to tehsildars — to physically inspect every govt land parcel across the district, verify its current status, cross-check its record of rights, and document details through an on-site panchnama. The move, one of the most extensive land verification drives undertaken in…
Pune: A car crashed into a road divider between Wadgaon Bridge and Navale Bridge around 5am on Monday, adding to a series of accidents, including the Nov 13 fatal accident that left eight dead, on the stretch. According to Sinhagad Road police, after hitting the divider, the vehicle swerved left, broke through the safety railings…
Pune: A sessions court at Indapur in rural Pune has rejected the bail plea of a school clerk arrested in an attempted rape and murder of a 14-year-old student from the same school in her house at Indapur on July 28, 2024. Judge UM Mudholkar held on Nov 18, “There is strong prima facie material…
Pune: Once again, a Delhi-based gang was caught for stealing cables. The Alankar police arrested three men, all residents of Mandawali in Delhi, for attempting to steal heavy-duty cables from different telecom companies on Karve Road in Kothrud around 4am on Sunday.According to the police, the suspects hired trucks and heavy-duty cranes to pull out…
