Pune: The Kasba Ganapati Mandal has written to the civic body claiming that the sludge from the Ganesh idols immersed in the makeshift tank at Sinhagad Road was not disposed of properly but thrown on the road.“The water into which the idols were immersed was thrown on the road. I personally witnessed this sludge. Measures…
Pune: The court of judicial magistrate first class A A Pandey has granted bail to Dr Ajay Taware, the suspended head of Sassoon General Hospital’s forensic science department, in the 2022 kidney transplant case at Ruby Hall Clinic. He was the head of the regional authorisation committee (RAC for organ transplant, the Sassoon Authority Committee,…
Pune: Environmentalists from Pune emphasised that civic administration and other authorities should urgently take steps to increase capacity of the Mula and Mutha rivers as the flood risk has gone up by 40% in the last 14 years in civic areas.The group of environmentalists, while speaking at a press conference, said many residential areas in…
Pune: Police on Monday registered one more FIR against the founder and two directors of an IT company in Hinjewadi on the charge of duping at least 300 IT freshers under the pretext of training and placement in the firm. The founder, Upesh Patil (37), has already been arrested. “We have sent a team to…
Pune: The Wanowrie police arrested two men, aged 25 and 22, both residents of Hadapsar, and also detained a minor boy for attempting to kill a man (40) over an old dispute. The incident took place at around 8.30pm at Juna Mhada in Hadapsar on Sunday. Source link
Pune: The state CID has responded to the govt’s order and formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe cases of cheating and misappropriation involving Jalgaon-based Bhaichand Hirachand Raisoni (BHR) multi-state cooperative credit society.Additional director general of police (CID) Sunil Ramanand told TOI: “We received the govt order and formed the SIT to probe cheating…
Pune: A Goa-bound flyer on Aug 14 stood in a wrong boarding queue, a staffer of an airline other than that he was booked with charged him Rs3,000 because his cabin baggage surpassed the permitted weight and both realised their mistakes after the plastic card transaction was over.The flyer, Siddharth Naik, didn’t reach the wrong…
Pune: Two men riding on a bike were killed after a truck hit their vehicle in front of a private hospital on Handewadi-Mantarwadi Road around 9.45am on Monday. The Phursungi police identified the deceased as casual workers Santosh Kamble (39) of Karadgaon in Ahilyanagar and Sudarshan Pulawale (38) from Uruli Devachi. The truck driver, Nagesh…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Saturday night raided a gambling den in Charholi, detained 27 men, and seized Rs1.7 lakh in cash from them. As many as 26 cellphones, three cars and five motorcycles, collectively worth more than Rs34 lakh, were also seized. Three men, including the main suspect, managed to flee the…
City-based philatelist and numismatist Vinayak Awate has a unique collection of stamps – those featuring Lord Ganesha. Inspired by his own name, which among the many names of Ganpati Bappa, Awate has meticulously collected stamps, stamp papers, and even coins from various countries and regions that feature the deity. Besides arranging exhibitions of his collection,…
