Pune: A 66-year-old retired defence personnel from Dhanori fell prey to cyber fraudsters who allegedly posed as officers of the Mumbai crime branch and duped him of Rs 26.1 lakh by threatening him with arrest in a fake money laundering case. The Vishrantwadi police registered an FIR on Wednesday after the victim first approached the…
PUNE: NCP (SP) MLA and late deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s nephew Rohit Pawar on Thursday afternoon recorded his statement before the State CID officials at the probe agency’s Pune head office regarding the Jan 28 plane crash in Baramati that claimed the lives of his uncle and four others. The CID recorded his statement…
Image Used For Representational Purpose PUNE: The Khadki police on Wednesday arrested a 56-year-old real estate agent for allegedly smothering his wife (53) at their apartment in the Chikhalwadi locality of Khadki around 11pm on Tuesday.According to deputy commissioner of police (zone IV) Chilumula Rajnikanth, the accused had first considered taking his own life before…
Pune: A bomb threat email claiming that the passport office would be blown up caused a brief panic at the Baner facility on Thursday morning. The email claimed that RDX and IED explosives had been planted in the office with the help of Pakistan’s ISI, but did not specify which facility. Deputy commissioner of police…
Pune: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said several countries have faced uncertainty with respect to trade and technology in this decade so far and this trend is expected to continue as nations will try to secure their interests by controlling supply chains of crucial resources and harnessing technology.At a time like this, India…
Pune: One person was killed while nine others suffered serious injuries after a pickup truck transporting watermelons from Ahilyanagar to Mumbai collided head-on with a sports utility vehicle (SUV) on the Nagar-Kalyan highway at Ane village in Junnar taluka, around 95km from the city, late on Wednesday night.The Ale Phata police identified the deceased as…
Curious minds can visit research institutes tomorrow (AI image) PUNE: Scientific institutions across the district will celebrate National Science Day on Saturday with an extensive lineup of public lectures, exhibitions, outreach programmes and interactive demonstrations, and will open their laboratories and research spaces to students, teachers and citizens. The day commemorates physicist CV Raman’s discovery…
Pune: Union minister of state for Jal Shakti Raj Bhushan Choudhary recently told students pursuing MBA and PGDM at the Pune Institute of Business Management (PIBM) that leadership is about creating impact and serving the society and not just building successful individual careers.He was speaking during a special session on leadership, governance and nation building….
Pune: A 34-year-old fruit trader and his accomplice were arrested on Wednesday on the charge of stabbing brother of his former vendor over a dispute of Rs20,000.The Kalewadi police identified the deceased as Hashim Raeen of Vijaynagar in Kalewadi, hailing from Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh. The vendor, Arbaz Raeen (22), suffered a deep cut…
Pune: Keeping a key to the main door lock in a shoe rack cost dearly to a 47-year-old resident of Old Sangvi. An unknown person opened the door using the key and stole gold jewellery worth Rs 1 lakh from the victim’s house on Tuesday afternoon. The victim lodged a complaint with the Sangvi police…
