Pune: Two brothers sustained severe injuries after a pick-up truck hit their motorcycle from behind on the service road at Bavdhan on Tuesday evening. The Bavdhan police registered a case of negligent driving against the pick-up truck driver.An officer from the Bavdhan police said the complainant, Feroz Mahajan (31), and his brother, Mirawali Mahajan (33),…
Pune: All electric four-wheelers in India would be mandated to produce an artificial sound at low speeds from Oct to improve pedestrian safety, Reji Mathai, director of the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), said on Wednesday.“The Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) will be mandatory for all electric four-wheelers travelling at 0-20km per hour to…
Pune: The Kondhwa police on Tuesday evening arrested four youths for robbing a 27-year-old man from Wagholi after befriending him on a dating app. The robbery took place in an isolated spot near Sheetal Petrol Pump in Kondhwa on the night of Jan 11. The accused stole a debit card, mobile phone, and gold and…
Pune: The Sahakarnagar police detained a 17-year-old boy and his cousin (19) on the charge of damaging a three-wheel tempo and 22 two-wheelers parked on roads in Padmavati and Taljai Vasahat areas in Sahakarnagar late on Tuesday night.The boy’s another cousin was also involved in vandalism, but the latter fractured his leg while running away…
Pune: Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU)’s Centre of Innovation, Incubation and Enterprise has organised a two-day Startup Bootcamp for students from Jan 27 to Feb 20 across 20 locations in Nashik, Ahilyanagar and Pune districts. Director of the SPPU centre Devidas Golhar said, “We want to make students aware of entrepreneurship options and not just…
Pune: Expenditure on municipal scholarships for meritorious students by PMC has increased fivefold since the programme’s inception two decades ago. With the civic administration now spending approximately Rs20 crore annually on the initiative, officials are planning to introduce an eligibility cap similar to the “non-creamy layer” criteria. Under the proposed changes, students from families with…
Pune: At a packed auditorium inside Pavilion Mall, far removed from the romantic idea of cinema as a dream factory, author and critic B Jeyamohan, who writes in Tamil as well as Malayalam, delivered a blunt diagnosis of Indian filmmaking. Jeyamohan, who has also written scripts for several movies in the two languages, argued that…
Pune: The Agri Horticultural Society of Western India is set to host the annual Empress Garden flower show starting Jan 23 in Camp.The five-day exhibition, a staple of the city’s cultural calendar, aims to surpass last year’s record footfall of 70,000 visitors. This year’s showcase features an assembly of nearly three lakh flowering and decorative…
Pune: Seven people attacked a shopowner (26) from Uruli Kanchan at Waghapur village in Saswad, about 15 km from city, with sharp weapons late on Sunday night.One of the suspects fired two rounds at the shopowner. The bullets, however, missed the victim.“Prima facie, the attack was the result on an old dispute between the victim…
Pune: The Nashik district administration’s decision to charge people — Rs 200 to Rs 800 — to watch the Indian Air Force‘s famed Suryakiran Aerobatic Team perform over the Gangapur dam site on Jan 22 and 23 has invited criticism from serving and retired IAF officers who say the move defeats the very purpose of…
