Pune: The city and surrounding areas, which witnessed showers on Sunday after a break of two days, are likely to record more rainfall during the week.According to India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast, very light to light rain is likely until June 7, and an increase in the intensity of rainfall is expected in the middle…
Pune: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar made it clear on Sunday that the govt would not pursue legal action against Ladki Bahin beneficiaries found ineligible.Pawar was responding to questions in Pune about 2,200 ineligible govt employees who have received benefits under the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, which was announced just ahead of the Nov…
Pune: Nilesh Chavan (34), a business associate of Shashank Hagawane and co-accused in the Vaishnavi dowry death case, was on Saturday remanded in police custody till June 3. The court of judicial magistrate first class V P Khandare also extended the custodial remand of Vaishnavi’s father-in-law, Rajendra Hagawane (63), and brother-in-law, Sushil (27), till June…
Pune: Nilesh Chavan (34), a business associate of Shashank Hagawane and co-accused in the Vaishnavi dowry death case, was on Saturday remanded in police custody till June 3. The court of judicial magistrate first class V P Khandare also extended the custodial remand of Vaishnavi’s father-in-law, Rajendra Hagawane (63), and brother-in-law, Sushil (27), till June…
Pune: The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) has officially declared Swati Kaspate, mother of late Vaishnavi Hagawane, as the “fit person” to take custody of her nine-month-old grandson.Maharashtra women and child development minister Aditi Tatkare posted the decision on her X handle on Friday. The decision followed a comprehensive social investigation report from the district child…
Pune: A mule account holder, husband of a sarpanch, was arrested from a house in Panvel around 4.30am on Friday in connection with the Rs6.3 crore digital arrest fraud.The suspect has been identified as Tushar Harischandra Wajantri (28), a resident of Roha in Raigarh district. His wife is the sarpanch of a nearby village.The cyber…
Pune: Two men were killed and another suffered injuries after a ready-mix cement truck hit a pickup truck from the rear on Pune-Mumbai Expressway in Kamshet around 3.30am on Saturday.The Kamshet police identified the deceased as Ajay Yadav of Kurla in Mumbai and Afzal Murtuza Khan of Ganeshpur in Uttar Pradesh. The pickup truck driver,…
Pune: Around 150 passengers of SpiceJet’s Delhi-Pune flight (SG-477) reached their destination around 9.30pm on Friday, almost four hours behind the schedule and after sitting in the stationary aircraft in the national capital for about three hours.The flight was scheduled to depart from Delhi at 3.25pm and reach the city at 5.35pm. It was initially…
Pune: The court of special magistrate Amol Shinde rejected the plea of Satyaki Savarkar, great-grandnephew of Hindu ideologue Veer Damodar Savarkar, to cancel the bail bond of Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.The court in its order of May 28 observed that Gandhi was granted permanent exemption from appearing before the court…
Pune: The city’s congested Nagar Road is in immediate need of safe pedestrian crossings, the Association of Nagar Road Citizens Forum said this week, as it called for a traffic review of the entire route. After traffic police introduced “signal-free Nagar Road”, safe crossings for pedestrians are now non-existent on the route, the forum said…
