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…
Pune: Over 16 lakh Std X students are set to appear for the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations from Feb 20 to March 18 this year at 5,111 centres across the state. Nandkumar Bedse, acting chairman of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE), told the media on Wednesday that last…
Pune: Residents of Pune civic limits won’t have to cough up extra money in property tax and those in Pimpri Chinchwad are also likely to be spared the burden.PMC’s general body (GB) on Wednesday unanimously dismissed the proposal to hike property tax by 5% from the next fiscal. The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), too,…
Pune: The Southern Command has developed an indigenously designed long-range fixed-wing surveillance drone to enhance real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) across its operational zones, drawing on recent operational experience, including lessons from Operation Sindoor.The drone, named SOM, was developed by the 21 Corps Zonal Workshop in Bhopal under Southern Command. It reflects the Army’s…
Pune: A major fire broke out at a company in the Trimurti Lawns area on Lohegaon-Wagholi road around 1pm on Wednesday. There was no loss of life, as employees of the company and others nearby were shifted to safety after the flames erupted, said a statement issued by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA)….
Pune: In separate actions, the Pimpri Chinchwad police on Tuesday seized ganja worth Rs 10 lakh from Bhosari, Pimpri and Mhalunge and arrested four men and two women.A Bhosari police team led by assistant inspector Somnath Tapre, in the early hours of Tuesday, nabbed two men at Deokar Vasti in Bhosari and recovered 16 kg…
Pune: Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to Ashpak Basha Makandar, one of the co-accused in the case of manipulating blood samples of the minor driver in the Porsche car crash that claimed the lives of two young software engineers in the city’s Kalyaninagar area on May 19, 2024. The apex court cited grounds of…
