Pune: Jay Pawar, son of deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar, on Monday said NCP should have retained the Maharashtra Olympic Association (MOA)’s president post, a day after MP Murlidhar Mohol was elected for the position.He told reporters in Baramati that several people from the sports fraternity had reached out to him over the development. “We…
Pune: The Pimpri police on Monday arrested three eatery workers in Pimpri on the charge of attempting to kill a customer following arguments over serving food earlier in the day.A resident (30) of Ajmera Colony in Pimpri has lodged a complaint with the Pimpri police.The arrested suspects were identified as Abbas Shaikh (30) and Mohammed…
Pune: A driver charred to death after his car crashed into the railings of a flyover and caught fire in Kamshet on Mumbai-Pune highway, about 50km from the city, in the early hours of Tuesday.The Kamshet police identified the deceased as Ketan Chavan (34) from Pimpri. The car was heading towards Pune.Assistant inspector Akash Pawar,…
Pune: A survey of govt land leased on a long-term basis in the district has detected 240 violations across 2,161 parcels, with the administration initiating action to reclaim leased lands for violation of norms after hearings, Pune collector Jitendra Dudi said on Tuesday.“Orders to reclaim land from lease holders have already been issued for 15…
Pune: A 25-year-old man, who was accused of sexually assaulting his four-year-old stepdaughter, was acquitted by a sessions court on Monday.The court said that the key witnesses like the girl’s teacher, who was the complainant, mother and the girl herself did not support the prosecution’s case. The medico-legal report too was not proved.On Jan 27,…
Pune: With land acquisition for the proposed Purandar airport set to begin on Thursday, the district administration is moving to put safeguards in place to ensure that villagers receiving large compensation payouts do not squander their windfall.District officials said the administration is finalising an MoU with Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics to guide beneficiaries…
Kolhapur: After 36 years in jail, Ronald Alvares (65), a rape and murder convict, finally walked out of Kolhapur’s Kalamba central jail on May 3 following the Kolhapur bench of the Bombay high court’s direction for his “immediate release” as the state failed to comply with the HC’s earlier order of March 7 directing his…
Pune: Cabbies using the Uber platform may face the heat because of the aggregator’s non-compliance with the Regional Transport Authority’s directive to charge fares as per its approved rates.Pune’s regional transport officer Archana Gaikwad told TOI that a letter was sent to Uber seeking the reason for the non-compliance and warning that its application would…
Pune: A recent traffic change near CoEP flyover, where access from the road below towards Jangli Maharaj (JM) Road has been barricaded, is leading to slow-moving traffic and forcing commuters into long detours, said regular users of the stretch.Under the new arrangement, vehicles approaching from Sangamwadi and the Pune-Mumbai Old Highway road side can no…
Pune: A sessions court has rejected the bail plea of Krushna Satyanarayan Kanojiya, arrested in the murder of a 28-year-old BPO employee in the parking area of her company in Yerawada on Jan 7 last year.The court noted on Saturday that the prosecution had prima facie evidence to infer that the accused committed a “cold-…
