Pune: A team of PMC and police officials swung into action to remove street vendors from Shivaji Road after a state minister was caught in the traffic jam on Thursday evening but the drive fizzled out after a group of around 60 hawkers put up a stiff resistance, claiming that the civic body had issued…
Pune: Two people, including a woman, allegedly extorted Rs6,000 from a lodge employee, Mithileshkumar Pal (19) of Dhankawdi, after impersonating police personnel around 5.15am on Wednesday.They abducted Pal in a hatchback car and let him off near Swargate after forcing him to transfer Rs 6000 to their UPI application. Pal later walked to the lodge…
Pune: The Rural police have busted a gang involved in abducting people with learning difficulties and forcing them to work at different places, mostly farms. The Khed police have arrested four gang members, including a woman. “We rescued five people with learning difficulties from a farm in a village in Khed taluka on Wednesday. We…
Pune: The Shirur police on Tuesday arrested two men in Saradwadi in Shirur taluka on the charge of bludgeoning a 50-year-old man to death at Kavathe Yamai village near Shirur, about 75km from the city, on August 19.The murder was the fallout of a dispute over money, inspector Sandesh Kenjale of the Shirur police said….
Pune: The Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) has assured farmers in Maval taluka that no land will be acquired without their consent for the 15 proposed town planning schemes along the inner ring road, officials said.The schemes propose a 65-metre-wide bypass road network through villages, including Dhamane, Godumbare, Darumbre, Salumbre, Sangwade, and Nere. It…
Pune: The Khadki police said the four men who beat up an investment banking firm staffer and his friend following an argument over wrong-side driving on Monday evening were from good families with graduation or post-graduation degrees.Satyam Sukhsagar Bhargav, the investment banking firm employee, suffered fractures on his nose. He was returning to his home…
Pune: A teacher from Bhubaneswar in Odisha and a tax consultant from Mumbai were arrested in connection with an online share-trading fraud in which a software engineer from Wakad lost Rs69 lakh to cybercrooks. The arrested duo gave their bank accounts as mule bank accounts to the cybercrooks, said senior inspector Ravikiran Nale of the…
PUNE: Anticipating disruption in traffic movement as Marathahalli quota activist Manoj Jarange, along with thousands of supporters, is marching to Mumbai from Pune district, the Pimpri Chinchwad police diverted traffic at major junctions on Thursday.After paying homage to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at his birthplace of Shivneri Fort in Junnar tehsil of Pune district, Jarange started…
PUNE: Accusing chief minister Devendra Fadnavis of insulting the Maratha community’s sentiments by giving permission for only one day to hold an agitation in Mumbai, the Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange on Thursday demanded the state govt withdraw all the conditions laid down for the agitation at Azad Maidan in Mumbai. Cranking up pressure on…
Pune: Hospitals have reported a rise in viral infections and post-viral joint problems with data from Pune Municipal Corporation shows that over 1,200 cases of suspected and confirmed dengue cases were reported until Aug 20 this year. Viral fevers, particularly chikungunya, often leave behind painful joint swelling, stiffness, and bone aches that can linger far…
