Pune: A team of Pune Cantonment Board’s engineering section on Wednesday started inspection of the Sachapir Street property where a slab crashed the day before, leading to a worker’s death. A Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) official said the team would check if the construction complied with the sanctioned plan and also verify various parameters, including…
Pune: The rural police on Wednesday released the sketch of one of the two suspects wanted for an armed robbery and sexual assault on a 17-year-old girl at Swami Chincholi village near Bhigwan, around 100km from the city on the highway to Solapur.The incident occurred around 4.15am on June 30. At the time, seven members…
NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old woman was allegedly raped by an unidentified man who entered her home in Pune on Wednesday evening by posing as a courier delivery executive, news agency PTI reported. The incident took place at around 7.30pm in a housing society in the Kondhwa area of the city. The woman was reportedly alone…
Pune: For a woman in her 50s, life after divorce became an unbearable struggle. Constant mood swings left her irritable and anxious.It was only after she sought professional help that the root of her turmoil could be detected – a mental health condition called bipolar disorder that causes extreme changes in mood, energy, and activity…
Pune: Principal secretary to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Ashwini Bhide, on Wednesday directed the PMRDA, MIDC and other agencies concerned to immediately carry out a detailed hydraulic study and assess the feasibility of a storm water drainage network in the Hinjewadi area, following repeated complaints of urban flooding and civic breakdown.The directives came during a…
Pune: Urban development minister of state Madhuri Misal on Wednesday said state govt could cancel the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC)’s draft development plan (DP) if it’s deemed beyond rectification. She was responding to concerns raised by MLCs from both the ruling alliance and opposition during the assembly session, who demanded the draft’s scrapping.The MLCs…
Pune: PMPML’s passenger traffic dipped slightly a month after the PMPML increased its fares, but the revenue grew exponentially.“The passenger traffic did not increase significantly even after schools reopened from June 15. There can be several reasons behind it, but one of them can be the increased fares. We hope to see the passenger traffic…
Pune: Passengers on board a Goa to Pune SpiceJet flight (SG-1080) had a scare on Tuesday evening when a window panel was found dislodged while the plane was mid-air.The airline played down the incident, saying the window part that had come off was “a non-structural trim component, fitted onto the window for the purpose of…
Pune: The Hinjewadi police on Tuesday night arrested two men who attempted to dupe a real estate agent from Bavdhan under the pretext of a scheme to double his money.The real estate agent became suspicious and alerted his police constable friend.The police then laid a trap near Laxmi Chowk and nabbed the duo, who came…
Pune: A 37-year-old woman lost her left leg after a dumper truck hit her scooter from the rear in Tathawade around 2pm on Monday.The woman — Swara Sanjay Pawar, who is a staff head at a local gym — lost her balance and fell, with her left leg going under the truck’s front wheel.“The driver…
