A patch of waterlogged road near Bhumkar chowk Pune: Heavy showers have left roads waterlogged, underpasses flooded, and traffic jams across the city, including Shivajinagar, Dattawadi, Rasta Peth, Kharadi, Baner, Hinjawadi and Wakad. The rainfall has also exposed yet another cost of poor urban infrastructure – a surge in commute pricing.While choked drains, tree falls…
Pune: Several businesspersons and shopowners in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad have received extortion calls over the last two weeks from alleged members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, raising concerns about the syndicate’s growing presence in the region.Two weeks ago, the owner of a steel-manufacturing company based in Wanowrie received an extortion demand of Rs50 crore…
PUNE: A house was hit by a landslide in a remote village in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Monday, raising fears that an entire family may be trapped under the debris, officials said.According to preliminary information, the landslide struck the house in Patan village, located in Mawal taluka, during the early hours of Monday.Authorities suspect that…
In a public advisory, the corporation on the official handle said traffic on both the expressway and the old highway would remain suspended until further orders. PUNE: The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) suspended traffic on both the Mumbai-Pune Expressway and the old Mumbai-Pune National Highway in both directions in the early hours of…
PUNE: A total of 16 trains, including inter-city trains between Pune and Mumbai have been cancelled due to a major landslide which happened at the Southeast (Pune-Lonavla) ghat section of the Central Railway in the wee hours on Monday. According to the railway officials, the landslide happened at around 3am blocking both the UP and…
Pune: Within four hours of a chain-snatching incident near Pimple Gurav on Saturday afternoon, the Sangvi police arrested a 22-year-old man from Bhosari and recovered a gold chain worth Rs 1.80 lakh stolen from a 33-year-old woman.Despite sustaining neck injuries during the robbery, the woman chased the accused until he fled on a scooter. She…
Cars damaged after wall collapsed in Jambhulwadi, Pune Pune: Eight four-wheelers, along with nine two-wheelers parked inside Samruddhi Lakeshore Society in Jambhulwadi, were damaged after the society’s compound wall collapsed around 2.30am on Sunday.No one was injured in the incident. The area has received heavy rainfall over the past two days.A resident, Amar Ingavle, told…
Pune: The grandfather of Lohagad Fort murder victim Ketan Agarwal, 83-year-old Devichand Agarwal, passed away at a hospital in the city on Saturday night.His son and Ketan’s father, Kuldeep Agarwal, told reporters on Sunday that Devichand was in shock following the untimely death of his grandson.Ketan Agarwal, a director of a real estate firm, was…
Pune: A holiday has been declared by collector Jitendra Dudi on Monday for all schools in the city and in rural areas of the district, in view of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a red alert for July 6 and warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall at some places and extremely heavy rainfall…
Just four days of rain and Pune’s infrastructure shows early signs of distress as potholes emerge on major arterial roads. Pune: Showers in the catchments of Khadakwasla (16mm), Temghar (46mm), Panshet (45mm), and Varasgaon (44mm) dams have led to a sizeable increase in their water stock on SundayThese dams that provide water to Pune Municipal…
