Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Despite assurances from chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputy Eknath Shinde during early Jan that Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar would receive a smooth water supply within the next two months, the sluggish progress of the ongoing water supply project is likely to prove such a promise hollow once again.Besides the sluggish pace of various…
Pune: Inspired by the larger than life cinematic hero shaped by Amitabh Bachchan‘s iconic screen persona, Hero examines how pop culture defines courage, masculinity and morality, blending nostalgia with satire to question what heroism really means today.Presented by theater troupe Ranga Pune, the bilingual Hindi and Marathi play will be staged at Bharat Natya Mandir…
Pune: The Bavdhan police on Wednesday registered a case against the owner of a steel supplier firm and his accomplice on the charge of duping a construction firm of Rs 8.3 lakh for not supplying 15 tonnes of steel.An official from the construction firm lodged a complaint with the police. An officer from the Bavdhan…
Pune: A retired Maharashtra govt official (70) from Erandwane filed a complaint with the cybercrime police on Wednesday stating that some online fraudsters duped him of over Rs 2 crore between Jan 13 and Feb 4 by threatening him with arrest in a money laundering case.According to the police, the fraudsters impersonated officials from the…
Pune: Traffic movement from the CoEP flyover toward JM Road near Sancheti Hospital Chowk has eased somewhat in recent days after the traffic police and civic authorities introduced several corrective measures. Barricades have been installed to streamline vehicle movement at the junction, and two bus stops of Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) that were…
Nashik: A two-and-half-year-old boy, playing near his house in the city’s Satpur area, died after the wall of a dilapidated structure fell on him on Tuesday night. Inspector Prakash Ahire of Satpur police station said the accident occurred around 8pm when Mohammad Huzer Khan was playing near the wall. The boy’s father took him to…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The alleged mastermind of a major drug trafficking racket, Shaikh Ashfak Shaikh Isaq, who had been evading arrest for the past 20 days, was arrested from a hotel at Nashik’s Wadala Naka late on Wednesday. The police said that Ashfak had constantly been moving from one place to another across India to evade…
Kolhapur:The average live stock of water in nearly 3,000 dams of Maharashtra is 998 TMC at present, nearly 70% of the total capacity of reservoirs and about 8% more than that in last year.According to the irrigation department officials, the live stock of usable water in the dams is enough for water needs during the…
Pune: The North Mahalunge MIDC police on Tuesday arrested an owner of a godown from Koregaon in Khed taluka and a driver of a transport operator on the charge of stealing iron pipes from the godown.An officer from the North Mahalunge MIDC police said a construction firm took the accused’s godown at Koregaon on rent…
Pune: The Pune city crime branch have arrested six men, including an autorickshaw driver, for allegedly murdering a 40-year-old woman by pushing her into a stone quarry in Katraj on Feb 10 following a trivial argument.Police arrested autorickshaw driver Keshav Kamlesh Chowdhari (20) of Katraj; his friends Abdul Mohammed Shaikh (23) and Sonu Laxman Pawar…
