Pune: The National Green Tribunal bench in Pune has directed the Sahakar Maharshi Shivajirao Narayanrao Nagawade Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd in Shrigonda taluka of Ahilyanagar district to deposit Rs1.06 crore environmental damage compensation within two months with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board for causing pollution of Ghod river through discharge of untreated waste and an…
Pune: Unabated pollution in the Indrayani river has triggered fresh concerns among not just devotees in the pilgrimage town of Alandi but residents along the entire banks, particularly Pimpri Chinchwad.While Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) claims it has been acting on complaints of contaminated water drawn from the river under its limits, it has now…
Pune: A sessions court at Khed has acquitted a teacher of a boarding school at Alandi of the charges of attempted murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder in connection with the death of an 11-year-old Standard V student allegedly due to medical complications arising out of an assault in the classroom. The alleged…
Pune: The civic body cleared illegal hawkers from several stretches in the Deccan area late on Monday night and confiscated their belongings as part of a drive against unauthorised vendors operating outside the prescribed hours. Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials said these vendors, including food stall operators, were not only operating without permits, but also…
Pune: A police constable from the Pimpri Chinchwad traffic branch was alarmed on Monday when she discovered that the driver of a school van carrying her two daughters and other students was intoxicated.With the help of her husband and a neighbour, she apprehended the driver and his assistant and took them to the Kalewadi police…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad civic administration has recalled over 1.5 lakh tablets used to treat Vitamin B deficiency after a patient reported a change in colour in the medicine supplied at a municipal hospital on Monday.According to officials from the medical department of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), a patient given “B Complex” tablets at…
Pune: Residents of a housing society at Indrayaninagar in Bhosari on Sunday morning apprehended one of the two burglars when they were driving away with valuables from a locked flat.The duo had threatened the residents with a country-made pistol and sharp weapons in an attempt to escape, but in vain. A resident and a relative…
Pune: In the aftermath of the Feb 3 incident reported near Adoshi Tunnel on the Mumbai-Pune expressway, in which a tanker carrying propylene gas overturned and resulted in a 32-hour traffic logjam along the route, multiple authorities have said they are now working on long-term measures to handle such emergencies. Officials concerned also said strict…
Pune: Eight youths allegedly cut a cake with a sword on a road to celebrate the birthday of one of them in the Shevkar Vasti area of Hadapsar on Feb 17.A video clip of the celebration was widely circulated on social media the next day. Some of the youngsters posted it as their status on…
Pune: Less than a month after a propylene gas tanker overturned and caused traffic congestion lasting 32 hours on the Pune-Mumbai expressway, another tanker belonging to the same firm met with an accident on this route on Monday.According to the highway police, the tanker carrying highly inflammable propylene gas from Kochi in Kerala to Dahej…
