Pune: A 26-year-old software engineer lost Rs 6.58 lakh in a stock market investment fraud between Aug 18 and Nov 10. He lodged a complaint with the Hinjewadi police on Saturday.An officer said the complainant wanted to invest his money in the stock market. While searching for brokerage firms on social media, he came across…
Pune has over 44.9 lakh registered vehicles. More than 30.7 lakh are two-wheelers, followed by more than 9.45 lakh private cars Pune: India’s voluntary vehicle scrappage policy, announced in 2021, had one key aim: incentivise the public to scientifically scrap their ageing, unfit vehicles. But Pune has seen little uptake of the policy, with only…
Pimpri Chinchwad police with the accused man Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Saturday arrested a man (26) on the charge of duping five people with the promise of securing them jobs in PCMC’s water supply department.A crime branch team arrested Prateek Dhainje from Dhawade Vasti in Bhosari based on a tip-off. A case of…
Long queue of vehicles on the Kolhapur-bound lane of the Mumbai-Bengaluru national highway, near Shirwal, on Saturday Pune/Kolhapur: Traffic on the Pune-Kolhapur-Satara stretch of Mumbai-Bengaluru highway was severely affected on Saturday as a heavy fleet of vehicles, largely carrying devotees and people working in metro cities, headed towards the Konkan region for the Ganesh festival.The…
Pune: A sessions court sentenced an engineer to six-month rigorous imprisonment 11 years after he slapped a head constable inside Dattawadi police station on May 29, 2015 while the latter was questioning him about a complaint his father had lodged against him.Additional sessions judge H M Bhosale on Friday held Vikram Prakash Waikar (49) guilty…
Pune: Cybercrooks allegedly duped a 53-year-old man from Chinchwad of Rs1.36 crore by promising him handsome returns on investments in online share trading.The complainant, who works as a senior manager with a telecom company, lodged a complaint with Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police on Friday. The fraud took place between Dec last year and Feb this…
Pune: A 47-year-old woman resisted a bid by two motorcycle-borne men to snatch her gold chain at around 10.20pm on Friday at Bhumkar Vasti in Narhe. Later that night, she lodged a complaint with Narhe police.According to a police officer, “The woman was taking a walk near her residential building when the two men on…
Pune: Wagholi police are searching for a man accused of robbing Rs 10,500 from a trailer truck driver at a construction site in Wagholi around 8.30am on Thursday.Vitthal Garje (31), a resident of Beed, lodged a complaint on Friday. Garje had reached the construction site in Wagholi to deliver construction material. The workers were unloading…
A road accident can be seen. (AI-generated image used for representational purpose) PUNE: Two people were killed and 12 others injured in a multi-vehicle accident on the Pune-Bengaluru Highway near Dhayari Bridge in Pune, police said.According to senior inspector Sharad Ambegave, the accident took place near Jambhulwadi, in front of Lakshmi Lodge at Dhayari Bridge,…
Pune: After reviewing festive preparations, mayor Manjusha Nagpure and corporators from the city’s central areas have asked officials to ensure uninterrupted water and power supply during Ganeshotsav. She has also directed officials to initiate steps alongside police to manage the movement of devotees.Waste management and road maintenance will also get a special focus this Ganeshotsav,…
