Pune: The civic body has said that nearly 85% work of the equitable water supply project in the city has been completed and the remaining would be done by May-end, even as citizens decried the delay in the deadline of Dec 2025. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) said that till now, 70 of the 82…
Pune: An 80-year-old woman suffered injuries on face and hands while trying to resist a chain snatcher in Charholi late on Tuesday night, when she and her daughter-in-law went for a walk after dinner. The snatcher fled with a part of a gold chain worth Rs30,000 from the woman. An officer from the Alandi police…
Pune: The city recorded a minimum temperature of 14.6°C at Shivajinagar on Thursday, marking the lowest reading in the past few days. Other parts of the city were cooler, with NDA recording 12.1°C, indicating a gradual fall in night temperatures. Independent weather forecaster Abhijit Modak said the cooling trend is in line with the earlier…
Pune: Students of colleges affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University(SPPU) secured multiple awards at the International Student Research Convention, Anveshan–2025, held recently. In the health sciences & allied subjects category, Siddhi Joshi and Tanisha Kasbe from AISSMS College of Pharmacy won the first prize and Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Gold Medal, along with a cash award…
Pune: The court of additional sessions judge (POCSO Act) SS Saste has convicted and sentenced a 77-year-old watchman to five years rigorous imprisonment for an aggravated sexual assault on an eight-year-old Std II girl on the premises of a housing society along the Katraj Kondhwa Road on March 6, 2024. The convict, who was aged…
Pune: The Wanowrie police on Tuesday registered a case against a crane operator and a labour contractor for allegedly neglecting workers’ safety after a 47-year-old woman died on the premises of a private company in the Hadapsar Industrial Estate on February 18.The police identified the deceased woman as Vaishali Bhosale, According to the police, Bhosale,…
Pune: A court in Baramati on Wednesday directed the Pune Rural police to let the 21-year-old woman in the Bhigwan ‘abduction’ case live with her mother and maternal uncle. This was after the woman, earlier in the afternoon, recorded a fresh statement before a Baramati court through videoconference from a govt shelter home, stating that…
Pune: Drainage and stormwater chamber lids on major city roads, which were hastily repaired ahead of the cycling event in Jan, are already crumbling, exposing shoddy work undertaken by the civic authorities.Residents said cement around some of the chamber lids has loosened and come off, demanding immediate repairs to restrict further damage.The cycling event took…
Pune: Three unidentified men allegedly robbed a 34-year-old grocer of Rs 1.90 lakh on Tuesday evening after threatening and assaulting him on the Pune–Mumbai highway near Dehu Road.The incident occurred around 5.45pm when the victim, a resident of Hadapsar, was driving towards Khalumbre village in Maval taluka to purchase goods from a wholesale trader. According…
Image used for representational purpose only PUNE: Eight people, including a woman, abducted a businessman (34) hailing from Beed from his rented flat in Lohegaon around 11.15am on Monday over a business dispute.Senior inspector Manisha Patil of the Lohegaon police said, “The businessman was released in Ahilyanagar on Tuesday afternoon and he approached us with…
