Pune: Commuters on the arterial Sinhagad Road faced major traffic congestion on Wednesday morning during peak travel hours, after an earthmover deployed for pipeline work of the civic body broke down near Hingne. The breakdown of the machinery created a bottleneck that heavily impacted traffic flow, and commuters reported facing major delays after being stuck…
Pune: Setting up a dedicated cybersecurity cell in every institute, an internal helpline for anonymous reporting of incidents, maintaining a database of students at private hostels and paying guest (PG) facilities, establishing an intoxication prevention and student support cell, and creating an institute-specific SOP for student discipline were some of the key measures identified by…
Pune: A sessions court has granted bail to Prafulla Lodha (62), a close aide of a senior BJP politician, in the alleged rape of a 42-year-old woman in a hotel room at Balewadi on May 27, on the pretext of helping her husband secure a job.Lodha hit the headlines amid allegations by opposition leaders that…
Pune: The PMC has decided to set up various cells to monitor election-related works in the run-up to the civic polls.A team of 20 officers have been constituted to activate the cells in the next few days. Each cell will primarily focus on expediting permissions, issuing NOCs (no objection certificate) to political parties and candidates,…
Pune: The state transport department has decided to set up an intelligent traffic management system (ITMS) along the 241-km stretch of the Pune-Kolhapur highway to track all vehicles and identify violators. Transport commissioner Vivek Bhimanwar told TOI that a work order for the project has been issued. “It will be in line with the ITMS…
Pune: A seven-year-old girl died while her uncle, her pregnant aunt and cousin suffered injuries after the uncle crashed his motorcycle into a stationary truck on a lonely stretch in the Market Yard area. The incident took place around 11pm on Monday, when all four members of the family were travelling together on the bike….
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday told authorities to expedite the work of 53.4-km Pune-Shirur highway stretch and complete it within three years. There is a plan to construct a four-lane road at grade and a six-lane elevated road above it. As per a statement from CMO, Fadnavis said that of the total length,…
Pune: A 38-year-old farm labourer fought off a leopard with his bare hands when it suddenly emerged from a nearby sugar cane field and pounced on him on Tuesday morning. The incident occurred at Otur village in Junnar tehsil, approximately 110 km from Pune.The big cat was hiding in the sugar cane field and lunged…
Pune: A retired general manager (70) of an industrial electronics company in Pimpri Chinchwad lost Rs2.14 crore to digital arrest fraud between Oct 30 and Nov 10.Cybercrooks called impersonating Nashik and Mumbai police personnel, and told him that funds meant for a banned Islamist political organisation were transferred to the bank account of his wife,…
PUNE: A sessions court on Monday granted bail to Prafulla Lodha (62), a close aide of a senior BJP leader, in the alleged rape of a 42-year-old woman. The survivor was allegedly raped by Lodha in a hotel room at Balewadi in Pune on May 27, 2025, on the pretext of helping her husband secure…
