Pune: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday upgraded its yellow alert to orange for Konkan and the ghat areas of Madhya Maharashtra till Thursday, while rain-related incidents claimed eight lives in the state in the past 24 hours. Met officials said the weather warning was upgraded after the low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of…
Pune: A waiter of a restaurant-cum-bar was arrested on the charge of stabbing his employer to death over a salary dispute on the premises of the establishment near Peacock Bay, close to Khadakwasla, around 8.30pm on Tuesday.The Uttamnagar police identified the waiter as Umesh Dilip Giri (38) of Katraj. The deceased employer was Santosh Sundar…
Pune: The Pune city police have urged the fixed deposit (FD) holders and short-term loan (STL) investors in the D S Kulkarni (DSK) group firms to validate their names in a fresh list being prepared by them as part of an ongoing validation and verification process.“The exercise, which will be carried out between Sept 8…
Pune: State govt’s facility that allows people to register property at any sub-registrar office within the same district, without visiting the office with jurisdiction over the property’s location, crossed the 60,000-mark since its roll-out on May 1, officials said on Tuesday. The next step, inter-district registration, however, is unlikely before next year. “There are technical…
Pune: Police on Tuesday found the body of a man (27), who had been missing since Sunday, in a lake near Talegaon railway station. On Sunday night, a 22-year-old woman’s body was recovered from the same lake. “Prima facie, they might have died by suicide together,” an officer from Talegaon Dabhade police station said.According to…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal (Western Zone), Pune, has ordered constitution of a joint committee comprising representatives from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), and the Pune district collector, to verify if untreated wastewater from villages under the zilla parishad is released into the Pavana river.The tribunal passed the…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is likely to restart ayurvedic outpatient department (OPD) which closed during Covid-19 at Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH).The decision is being explored after BJP MLC Amit Gorkhe, along with several ayurveda practitioners, met the PCMC commissioner to press for its revival last week.A senior official from the civic…
Pune: The health department on Tuesday suspended the live liver transplant licence of Sahyadri Hospitals’ Deccan branch, four days after the death of a healthy donor on Aug 22, while her post-mortem report was still awaited.The health department also decided to constitute an enquiry panel to primarily probe into the donor’s death in a high-level…
Pune: A special flight took off from Lohegaon airport on Monday afternoon for Bagdogra in West Bengal with 26 Bangladeshi migrants staying in India illegally over the past three months.Pune Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar said, “These illegal Bangladeshi nationals were found in the city without any documents. According to the norms, these people…
Pune: The owner of a garage was arrested on Aug 21 by the Ambegaon police on the charge of criminal breach of trust, cheating and forgery after he fraudulently sold cars and SUVs of his customers.The suspect was identified as Bhushan Kale (35) of Katraj.Senior inspector Sharad Zine of the Ambegaon police told TOI: “A…
