Pune: Fear refused to leave the residents of Pimparkhed in Shirur tehsil even after the forest department put down the leopard which killed 13-year-old Rohan Vilas Bombe on Sunday.Forest officials said that the leopard they killed on Tuesday night was the same one that took the boy’s life. Their conclusion is based on matching the…
Pune: The three assailants, aged 16-17, arrested in Tuesday’s daylight murder of a 17-year-old youth on the ever-busy Bajirao Road, told police that constant abuse and beating up by the victim, Mayank Kharare, pushed them to hatch a plot to eliminate him. Deputy commissioner of police (Zone I) Krushikesh Rawale said the trio told the…
Pune: BJP on Wednesday appointed Pune MP Murlidhar Mohol the election incharge for Pune district ahead of the upcoming local body polls. Ganesh Bidkar, former leader of the House in Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), has been named as the chief of PMC’s election campaign, a party press release stated.“The central and state govts are known…
Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar PUNE: The Maharashtra Revenue Department has suspended a sub-registrar and launched an investigation into a Rs 300-crore land deal involving deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar in Pune. The deal, which involves the sale of 40 acres of government-owned Mahar Vatan land to Amadea Enterprises LLP, where Parth…
Pune Police helps juvenile offenders reintegrate with skills and respect PUNE: “I was 16 when I was held in a dacoity case (robbery where eight juveniles were booked) with two other friends and brought to a police station. The ‘Dada’ whom we used to admire as our role model never came to help. It was…
Pune: Cancer patients in the region can now access crucial PET-CT scan facilities at Sassoon General Hospital (SGH) at a significantly affordable cost. The restart of these critical services comes a week after a TOI report highlighted the machine’s inoperability due to a lack of expert personnel. The hospital administration has swiftly taken measures to…
Pune: The fully grown male leopard that killed 13-year-old Rohan Vilas Bombe on Sunday was shot on Tuesday night by a team of shooters and forest officials in Pimparkhed village in Shirur tehsil, around 90km from Pune.Forest officials confirmed that the pugmarks of the dead leopard matched those found at the attack site. “The pugmark…
Himalayan University VC meets Arunachal Pradesh Governor, discusses higher education and research collaborations PUNE: In a cordial meeting at Raj Bhavan, Itanagar, the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Lt. General (Retd.) Kaiwalya Trivikram Parnaik, PVSM, UYSM, YSM (Retd.), and Prakash Divakaran, vice-chancellor of Himalayan University, engaged in a detailed discussion on advancing higher education, innovation, and…
Schoolboy’s pet dog drives away leopard that attacked him in Junnar PUNE: Another 13-year-old boy’s from Rajuri village in Junnar tehsil narrowly escaped death after a leopard attacked him on Monday evening but he was saved by his pet dog’s quick response.The incident days after a tragic attack in Pimparkhed in Shirur tehsil where a…
A Pune-based IT engineer and his wife were defrauded of Rs 14 crore by a woman claiming spiritual healing powers for their two ailing daughters (AI image) PUNE: An IT engineer and his wife, desperate to cure their two daughters’ ailments since birth, were defrauded of Rs 14 crore since 2018 by a woman claiming…
