Nashik: Food and civil supplies minister and senior OBC politician Chhagan Bhujbal on Thursday criticised the state govt for its ‘haste’ in issuing two govt resolutions (GR) on Maratha reservation on Sept 2.Bhujbal, president of All-India Mahatma Phule Samata Parishad, said govt changed the wording in the GR within an hour without consulting the cabinet…
Pune: Residents across the city have stepped up efforts to send aid to Punjab, which is battling its worst floods in nearly four decades. The floods, triggered by the swelling of the Sutlej, Beas and Ravi rivers and seasonal rivulets following heavy rainfall in their catchment areas in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, have…
Pune: The Sangvi police on Wednesday arrested two people, including a transgender person, on the charge of abducting a property broker and extorting Rs1.6 lakh from him between Sept 8 and 9.Senior inspector Jitendra Koli of the Sangvi police said, “We have charged the two under relevant sections pertaining to abduction, extortion and robbery.”Another officer…
Pune: A rare and successful paediatric liver transplant surgery gave a new lease on life to a one-and-a-half-year-old boy at a city-based private hospital earlier this year. Doctors said the procedure helped save the life of the child, who is now stable and growing well. The baby, who was unwell since birth, struggled with persistent…
Pune: A special court for POCSO Act in the city has convicted and sentenced a 37-year-old tempo driver from Karvenagar to life imprisonment for the remainder of his natural life for brutally raping his three-year-old stepdaughter on the night of Feb 5, 2018.“The brutality of the assault was such that the survivor had to undergo…
Pune: Police in an overnight search operation seized gold and silver jewellery, cash, 16 mobile handsets, and property-related documents, collectively worth over Rs75 lakh, from the houses of arrested gangster Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar and his daughter Vridavani Wadekar. Andekar, his daughter and her two sons were arrested in connection with the revenge murder of…
Pune: A software engineer from Bavdhan and a finance professional from Chikhali lost Rs 45 lakh to cyber crooks in an online share fraud case.Separate complaints were registered with the Bavdhan and Chikhali police on Wednesday in this regard.An officer from the Chikhali police said a 40-year-old finance professional was added to a group of…
Pune: Police on Wednesday invoked stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) provisions against gangster Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar and 12 others named in the revenge killing of Ayush Komkar (18) in Nana Peth on Sept 5. So far, eight out the 13 accused have been arrested. Ayush was shot dead by two assailants…
Pune: The contract National Health Mission employees on Wednesday called off their indefinite strike following a meeting with health minister Prakashrao Abitkar in Mumbai, who assured them that state govt would fulfil 10 of their 13 demands.The minister handed over a letter in this regard to office bearers of the National Health Mission (NHM) Coordination…
Pune: An 83-year-old retired defence official from Kondhwa was cheated of Rs1 crore between July 22 and August 19 in yet another digital arrest fraud targeting senior citizens. The crooks posed as CBI officials and claimed that they found financial transactions between the elderly man and a businessman, accused in a Rs400-crore money laundering case….
