Pune: A 28-year-old housewife from Nagpur was arrested for cheating an 80-year-old retired bank officer of Bibvewadi of Rs11.5 lakh after promising marriage to him.Earlier in Oct, the victim lodged a complaint at the Bibvewadi police station against the woman. He said she had promised to marry him, but cheated him instead. Police arrested the…
Pune: After BJP’s cabinet minister Chandrakant Patil and Union minister of state for civil aviation Murlidhar Mohol, Pune unit chief of Shiv Sena, Ravindra Dhangekar, has targeted its alliance partner’s Rajya Sabha member Medha Kulkarni, accusing her of disturbing the peace in the city.After the video of three women offering namaz at Shaniwarwada surfaced on…
Pune: Residents in Wagholi have been grappling with frequent power disruptions exacerbated by increased demand during the recent Diwali festivities. For several months, the power supply to areas including Wagholi, Kesnand, and Lohegaon has been inconsistent due to inadequate infrastructure. “There are only two feeder lines that supply electricity to Wagholi from the Lonikand substation,…
Pune: The sale of platform tickets at the Pune railway station would be restricted till October 25 to control crowding during the festive season. Only people accompanying senior citizens, ailing individuals, children and passengers unable to fend for themselves would be able to purchase platform tickets, a railway official said. Source link
Pune: At least 30 electric scooters were damaged in a fire that broke out in a service centre of an e-scooter company in Wakad in the early hours of Tuesday.No one was injured in the incident.Five firefighting tenders of the Pimpri Chinchwad fire brigade were pressed into service. It took two hours for the firefighters…
Pune: Cybercrooks posing as executives from a cellphone company’s customer care centre siphoned off Rs1.45 lakh from the bank accounts of a woman (43) and her father-in-law on Oct 17.The woman lodged a complaint with the Airport police on Monday. An officer from the Airport police said on Oct 17, the woman received a call…
Pune: Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal, a social organisation, described BJP Rajya Sabha member Medha Kulkarni’s act of “purifying” the site in Shaniwarwada where namaz was offered as “unfortunate”, and stressed that Muslim women faced discrimination within the community also because they were not allowed to offer prayers in many mosques in the country.While several organisations and…
Pune: The forest department captured three leopards from Pimparkhed village in Shirur taluka, within a week of a five-year-old girl being mauled to death in a leopard attack.Officials suspect the captured animals are likely from the same family, and one of them is believed to be responsible for the child’s death.This operation marks a rare…
Pune: On the main day of Diwali celebrations on Tuesday, the city’s air quality remained in the moderate category in the evening with an AQI 135 at 7pm, slightly better than Monday’s AQI 170, according to IITM’s air quality early warning and decision support system.However, scientists have warned that air quality is expected to deteriorate…
Pune: The marshy, salt-crusted expanse of the Sir Creek region — a narrow 96-km strip dividing India and Pakistan in Kutch of Gujarat — is set to become the focal point of India’s next major tri-service military drill, Exercise Trishul.Involving the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, the exercise aims to validate India’s growing capacity…
