Pune: A 46-year-old steel trader was arrested by the city crime branch on Saturday evening in Kondhwa Khurd on charges of possessing 749 grams of opium and other articles valued over Rs15 lakh.The accused has been identified as Bhagirathrm Bishoni — a resident of Tilekarnagar on the Katraj-Kondhwa bypass.The arrest was made by a police…
Pune: A 40-year-old worker died after falling from the third floor of a company at Chinchwad MIDC on Thursday evening. The victim, Santosh Mane, was taken to a hospital, where he succumbed to the injuries during treatment. The victim’s wife, aged 38, lodged a complaint against the company owner with the Pimpri police on Saturday.An…
Pune: Over three weeks since its launch, the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s (PCMC) dedicated “PCMC Pothole Management” app — designed to streamline pothole reporting — is struggling to gain widespread public adoption.Launched on June 1, the app was intended to provide residents with an easy way to report road defects in their neighborhoods. However, civic…
PUNE: The Sinhagad Road police arrested Vadgaon Budruk residents, Dada More (26) and Kiran Shinde (25), on Sunday night. They were charged with attempting to extort Rs 50,000 from a small-time builder (45) in his Hingne Khurd office while threatening him with a country-made pistol around 9 pm on Friday.The builder lodged a complaint with…
Pune: Harit anganwadi, a concept to provide illumination and reduce electricity costs, will be implemented in Pune district where pre-school education and nutrition have high importance. These centres will be lit up by solar energy projects through funding from District Planning Committee (DPC) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Currently, 1,100 anganwadis have operational solar…
Pune: Hadapsar police on Saturday arrested two realtors on charges of abducting and beating up another estate agent (28) at Manjari village in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday to recover Rs35,000.The victim from Alandi Devachi near Hadapsar filed a complaint with the police after the two accused and their two accomplices let him…
Pune: Incessant rainfall has affected paddy cultivation in the district. This year, paddy was cultivated on approximately 5,000 acres of land, a significant decrease from over 10,000 acres last year, district agriculture officials said.Paddy is the primary monsoon crop in Bhor, Velhe, Maval, Mulshi, Ambegaon, and Junnar tehsils in the district. Farmers in these areas…
Pune: Cybercrooks, who posed as officers from TRAI, CBI, and even a Supreme Court Judge, duped a 39-year-old woman from Pimple Saudagar of Rs21 lakh by scaring her by saying her Aadhaar card number was misused for money laundering. The fraud occurred between June 26 and July 4 this year. The crooks told the woman…
Pune’s police commissioner refuted claims of deteriorating law and order after a woman’s rape complaint was found to be false and misleading PUNE: Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said on Sunday that a fake narrative about the city’s “collapsing law and order” situation was being built based on an “entirely false and misleading complaint of a…
Pune’s police commissioner refuted claims of deteriorating law and order after a woman’s rape complaint was found to be false and misleading PUNE: Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said on Sunday that a fake narrative about the city’s “collapsing law and order” situation was being built based on an “entirely false and misleading complaint of a…
