Pune: A 20-year-old college student suffered a bullet injury in stomach on Friday afternoon when a man shot at him in his father’s store in the Pimpri Camp area. The student, Bhavesh Kakrani of Prem Lane in Pimpri Camp, is undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Pimpri. “Prima facie, it was a case of…
Pune: Metro’s ridership jumped to 59.58 lakh in July from June’s footfall of 52.41 lakh, recording the highest monthly footfall so far since operations began in the city.With this rise of 7 lakh travellers month on month, frequent Metro users said that it is the right time to improve train frequency or add coaches to…
Pune: Residents of Hinjewadi have passed a resolution during a gram sabha on Friday, opposing the proposed widening of roads to 36 metres in their village and in the Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park, which falls under the village jurisdiction.Villagers objected to the plan citing that expanding roads in the gaothan (village settlement) area would impact…
Pune: Maharashtra health minister Prakash Abitkar has directed officials to implement a statewide awareness campaign on organ donation from Aug 3 to 15.He said that the initiative be treated as a mass movement to help patients awaiting transplants.At a state-level planning meeting in Mumbai recently, Abitkar reviewed ongoing organ donation efforts and called for intensified…
Pune: A property dispute at Wadegaon in Lonikand, escalated on Wednesday evening, resulting in 30-year-old farmer Sushil Dore being shot in the stomach. His cousin, 35-year-old Sachin Dore, a known criminal, was arrested on Friday on charge of attempted murder, while another cousin, Bhivraj Hargude (32), was arrested for abetting the crime.According to senior inspector…
Pune: The Mundhwa police on Wednesday night arrested the neighbour (24) of a labour contractor (43) on charges of attempting to extort Rs50 lakh from the latter.Police identified the arrested man as Aniket Anil Palav, a resident of Bhimnagar in Ghorpadi and a car driver by profession.Assistant inspector Raju Mahanor of the Mundhwa police said,…
Pune: NCP (SP) members held a protest at the district collector’s office on Thursday demanding action against the publisher of a book which advocates changing the Constitution.The party’s city unit chief Prashant Jagtap alleged, “The RSS’s goal of ‘constitutional change’ is gaining momentum over the last 11 years with an RSS-led govt in the country….
Pune: Residents of Aundh, Baner-Balewadi on Thursday flagged various issues hampering daily commute, such as traffic chaos, poor condition of roads, and broken lids of drainage chambers in their areas.At a mohalla committee meeting held at Aundh ward office, the residents demanded that the civic authorities initiate steps to solve these issues. The residents said…
Pune: Police on Thursday claimed of recovering photos and videos in hidden files from 41-year-old Pranjal Khewalkar’s cellphone. Khewalkar, son-in-law of former state minister Eknath Khadse, and six others were arrested by a team of Pune police following a drug seizure from a studio flat in Kharadi, where they were found partying on Sunday.Khewalkar, Nikhil…
Pune: Three men on a motorcycle snatched a gold chain worth Rs 3.1 lakh from a 45-year-old woman heading to a vegetable market at Tuljabhavaninagar in Kharadi around 6.40pm on Wednesday.Senior inspector Sanjay Chavan of the Kharadi police on Thursday said the woman was talking on her phone when three bike-borne men came from the…
