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 very serious nature” authorities had received recently.Kumar did not specify the nature of the complaint while speaking at the inauguration of a…
Pune: The locality of Aundh has many faces, from a quiet, upscale residential neighbourhood to a rapidly developing commercial zone and a designated Smart City area.Development has brought to Aundh an influx of constructions, with a growing demographic of cosmopolitan residents paving the way for eateries, malls and an abundance of traffic.Bottlenecks and traffic violations…
Pune: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday forecast light to moderate rainfall with a generally cloudy sky for city areas and heavy to very heavy and extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places in ghat areas which have put under red alert on Monday.Sunday saw heavy showers till 8.30am in the ghat areas including Tamhini…
Pune: The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has started the process of converting its once popular and premier Shivshahi bus fleet into regular buses, with the entire fleet conversion set to take two years to execute, officials told TOI.These semi-luxury air-conditioned buses, first introduced in 2017 and initially hugely popular, are now infamous for…
Pune: A shepherd (33) was hacked to death with sharp weapons in Charholi on Saturday. The Dighi police found the body and identifies the deceased as Dhanu Lakde.Lakde was currently residing near Kale Colony on Alandi Road and hailed from Daund taluka. His brother, Somnath Lakde (21), lodged a complaint against unknown person(s).An officer from…
Pune: Two MSEDCL high-voltage power line poles collapsed on the road at Teen Hatti Chowk in Chavannagar, Dhankawdi, and caused a blast-like sound causing panic among local residents around 8pm on Sunday. No one was injured.There was power disruption in the area and vehicular movement on the internal roads of Dhankawdi and Chavannagar was disrupted….
Pune: Students’ unions protested on Saturday against Savitribai Phule Pune University‘s event to celebrate the feat of clinching the 566th position in the QS World University Rankings because they were denied entry though it was open to officials, senate members, management council members and others. Rahul Sasane, the president of the University Student Struggle Action…
Pune: An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Pune was delayed by over four-and-a-half hours after the pilot of the aircraft fell ill right before the take-off on Friday morning.IndiGo in its statement said, “One of our cockpit crew, scheduled to operate IndiGo flight 6E 2262 from Delhi to Pune on July 4, felt unwell before…
Pune: Following repeated instances of flooding in Hinjewadi after heavy showers in June, PMRDA have lodged criminal complaints against landowners and people responsible for construction on the natural streams in the area.The Hinjewadi police registered four criminal cases after Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) officials submitted a report.“PMRDA officials conducted a study of the…
PUNE: Vimannagar resident Manas Sinha and his family landed at the city airport at 1.30am this Monday, back from a trip to Chandigarh. However, the Sinhas were in for a rude shock when they reached the cab aggregator app service counter located near the arrival area. “The distance of my home from the airport is…
