Pune: The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has officially declared Swati Kaspate, mother of late Vaishnavi Hagawane, as the “fit person” to take custody of her nine-month-old grandson.Maharashtra women and child development minister Aditi Tatkare posted the decision on her X handle on Friday. The decision followed a comprehensive social investigation report from the district child…
Pune: A mule account holder, husband of a sarpanch, was arrested from a house in Panvel around 4.30am on Friday in connection with the Rs6.3 crore digital arrest fraud.The suspect has been identified as Tushar Harischandra Wajantri (28), a resident of Roha in Raigarh district. His wife is the sarpanch of a nearby village.The cyber…
Pune: Two men were killed and another suffered injuries after a ready-mix cement truck hit a pickup truck from the rear on Pune-Mumbai Expressway in Kamshet around 3.30am on Saturday.The Kamshet police identified the deceased as Ajay Yadav of Kurla in Mumbai and Afzal Murtuza Khan of Ganeshpur in Uttar Pradesh. The pickup truck driver,…
Pune: Around 150 passengers of SpiceJet’s Delhi-Pune flight (SG-477) reached their destination around 9.30pm on Friday, almost four hours behind the schedule and after sitting in the stationary aircraft in the national capital for about three hours.The flight was scheduled to depart from Delhi at 3.25pm and reach the city at 5.35pm. It was initially…
Pune: The court of special magistrate Amol Shinde rejected the plea of Satyaki Savarkar, great-grandnephew of Hindu ideologue Veer Damodar Savarkar, to cancel the bail bond of Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.The court in its order of May 28 observed that Gandhi was granted permanent exemption from appearing before the court…
Pune: The city’s congested Nagar Road is in immediate need of safe pedestrian crossings, the Association of Nagar Road Citizens Forum said this week, as it called for a traffic review of the entire route. After traffic police introduced “signal-free Nagar Road”, safe crossings for pedestrians are now non-existent on the route, the forum said…
Pune: Jayant Narlikar’s legacy should be a chapter in textbooks to inspire young scientists, said Raghunath Mashelkar, president, Pune International Centre (PIC), at a memorial organised for the astrophysicist on Saturday.Ajit Kembhavi, former director, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, and R. Srianand, the current director of IUCAA, also spoke about Narlikar and his work.Mashelkar,…
Leena Deosthale, 65, convicted of abducting Dr. Deepak Mahajan, has been released from Yerawada Central Prison on remission after 19 years. Despite being acquitted of murder, she served time for the abduction and ransom case. PUNE: Leena Deosthale (65), who was serving a life sentence for the abduction of orthopaedic surgeon Dr Deepak Mahajan after…
The victims were caught between the door and the wall of the shop PUNE: A novice driver in an inebriated state hit 12 youths, including four MPSC aspirants, before crashing a car into a tea stall’s door on Rajaram Mitra Mandal Road in Sadashiv Peth around 5.45pm on Saturday“All the injured people are out of…
Pune: The northward advance of southwest monsoon, which had been ahead of schedule in parts of the country, has stalled since May 29. Experts said while the monsoon reached parts of Maharashtra, south peninsular India and northeast India earlier than normal, further progress was likely to remain stalled for the next 7–10 days.The experts were…
