Pune: With modern warfare rapidly evolving into a landscape defined by unmanned systems and high-tech sensors, the Indian Army‘s new “Sapperscout 2.0” comes as a timely addition to its arsenal. This indigenously developed Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) is specifically designed to handle three of the most dangerous tasks in land operations — mine detection, reconnaissance…
Pune: The Junnar forest division has demolished several illegal structures along the approach road to the Bhimashankar temple over the past two days.Officials said the action was aimed at facilitating ongoing conservation work at the historic shrine, which is one of the 12 jyotirlingas in India, and ensuring smooth movement of devotees ahead of the…
Pune: The Baner police on Saturday filed a case against a builder and his son on the charge of abetting the suicide of a retired MSEDCL officer (69) on Feb 16 at the builder’s newly constructed multi-storied housing project site in Balewadi.“Preliminary investigations revealed that the victim, who hailed from Thane, jumped to his death…
Pune: Residents of Loni Bhapkar village, located about 75km from Pune in the Baramati assembly constituency, observed a bandh on Sunday, demanding a detailed probe into the plane crash that claimed the life of former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Jan 28.Villagers said Loni Bhapkar had consistently supported Pawar and decided to call for…
Pune: Intensified patrolling on railway tracks and closure of unauthorised entry points have led to a significant decline in fatalities across the division. Data provided by Government Railway Police (GRP) revealed that the number of deaths on tracks in the Pune division dropped to 491 in 2025, down from 616 the previous year. The Central…
Nashik: Four children — recently rescued during the city police’s Operation Muskan — have reportedly gone missing from a shelter home in the Nanawali area. The boys, all aged between 14 and 15, disappeared from the facility around 4.30 am on Saturday. Their sudden disappearance has sparked immediate investigation by the local authorities who were…
Kolhapur: A case has been registered against 10 people, including one minor, who were found writing the SSC examination’s Marathi language paper on Friday in place of originally enrolled candidates. The incident took place at the Shri Balkrishna Vidyalaya exam centre in Nandeshwar, which falls under Mangalwedha police station in Solapur district. Around 200 students…
Pune: A 55-year-old Nigdi resident, the former director of a company in Chakan MIDC, lost Rs11 crore between Nov last year and Jan this year to cybercrooks in an online share-trading fraud. The crooks initially gave him returns of up to Rs40 lakh on his online investments in the stock market and gained his confidence….
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Around 72 M.Ed students are awaiting their degree certificates from Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (Bamu) since 2023.While the university authorities continue to cite technical issues associated with data maintenance for the lapse, the issue caught the attention of the varsity’s senate meeting on Saturday.Bamu senate member Poonam Patil, who raised the issue…
Image Used For Representative Purpose Only PUNE: A 17-year-old boy, who recently walked out of an observation home on bail in a murder case, was detained on Saturday with his three minor accomplices for allegedly firing two rounds in the air from a country-made pistol late on Friday night to intimidate people in Dias Plot…
