Pune: Residents of Shewalwadi, Fursungi, and Manjri raised the alarm on Friday, after reporting repeated sightings of a leopard in their neighbourhoods, prompting a spot inspection by forest officials. However, no concrete evidence of the big cat’s presence was found yet.Suresh Varak, Range Forest Officer, told TOI that the department received multiple calls over the…
PUNE: Reacting to the NDA’s landslide victory in Bihar, NCP (SP) Chief Sharad Pawar said that political parties in govt announcing schemes of transferring money to people and going into polls to win elections will set a wrong precedent, and there is a danger of people losing faith in the entire election process.Pawar also said…
Pune: A 50-year-old woman died after she fell from a moving autorickshaw on Dighi Road in Bhosari on Wednesday afternoon. The accident occurred after a pick-up truck hit the three-wheeler.The Bhosari police have identified the deceased woman as Rukmini Giri of Pimple Gurav. The Bhosari police registered a case of accidental death against the pick-up…
Pune: Winter has made its first sharp appearance in the region this week, with Haveli recording a single-digit minimum temperature on Friday at 9.7°C, making it the first station in the district to dip below 10°C this season. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) temperature bulletin for Nov 14 indicated that Jalgaon was the coldest spot…
Pune: The traffic police have proposed a significant circulation change in Vimannagar, with two of the area’s primary roads slated for conversion into a one-way loop as early as Monday. The proposed one-way routes include the stretch from Ganga Puram Chowk towards Ganpati Mandir and the road from Shree Krishna Hotel towards Café Coffee Day…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal‘s Western Zone Bench in the city on Friday set aside a Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB)’s order that held a Surat landlord liable for environmental violations allegedly committed by his tenant’s chemical unit. The tribunal ruled that owner Jagmohan Lachiram Jalan could not be made to pay interim environmental damage…
Pune: Two senior citizens — a retired private firm staffer and a former employee of a govt hospital — collectively lost Rs39.5 lakh last month in separate digital arrest cases.Scamsters trapped the retired private firm staffer (77) from Aundh in a bogus terror link case. The retired govt hospital employee, a 69-year-old woman, was accused…
Pune: Swati Navalkar spoke to her daughter around 5pm on Thursday, promising that she and her parents would get home soon to begin the 14-year-old’s birthday celebrations. She hung up after telling her excited daughter about the adults’ day in Narayanpur, not knowing that it was the final goodbye.Less than an hour later, Swati (37),…
Pune: The introduction of two additional U-turns on Pune–Nagar Road at Agnibaz junction near Somnathnagar and at Khulewadi near Chandannagar has sparked concern and anger among residents. They said previous diversions had exacerbated traffic woes, leading to a noticeable increase in wrong-side driving, speeding, and general traffic-rule violations. The residents also voiced concerns over neglected…
Pune: A sessions court in Pune directed the Kothrud police to file an FIR against eight people — six policemen, a retired cop and a woman — and investigate an allegation of abduction, assault, use of casteist slurs and making sexually abusive remarks against three women living in a hostel. The court in its order…
