Pune: Four unidentified armed men allegedly robbed two tourists of valuables worth Rs 41,000 near a waterfall at Ambegaon village in Maval taluka on Tuesday. A 27-year-old Moshi resident lodged a complaint with the Lonavla Rural police on Wednesday.According to the police, the complainant, who works for a private company in Pimpri Chinchwad, had gone…
Pune: A 65-year-old warkari was killed after being hit by a car in Baramati late on Wednesday night. The Pune Rural police identified the deceased as Vishnu Ramchandra Pawar.The police said the accident occurred after the driver lost control of the car. “The Sant Tukaram Maharaj Palkhi had halted in Baramati on Wednesday night. The…
Pune: A 65-year-old building contractor was found hanging from the ceiling fan at around 8 am on Thursday in his house at Gultekdi, Market Yard.He purportedly wrote two suicide notes naming five persons, including a BJP worker, the wife of a former MLA and others, the Swargate police said.Senior inspector Yashwant Nikam of Swargate police…
A well-marked low-pressure area over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Odisha-West Bengal coast is expected to bring only limited benefits to Maharashtra, IMD said Pune: The India Meteorological Department’s latest extended range forecast indicated below-normal rainfall over most regions of Maharashtra at least till July 30 despite the return of rainfall in…
Praveen Goyal (L) claims his family faces unnecessary harassment after the FDA suspended their shop. PUNE: Praveen Goyal, father of murder accused Siya Goyal, on Thursday alleged that his family was being “harassed unnecessarily” after Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suspended operations at their spice and dry fruits shop over alleged food safety violations.Maintaining…
Women teachers say their contact numbers are made public and calls come from people at unearthly hours with complaints against them to their supervisors if they fail to pick up while in class Pune: For years, teaching jobs rested on a simple thought that students deserve the fullest attention. But in Maharashtra, for thousands of…
Property registration office in Haveli Pune Pune: Maharashtra’s first privately operated model sub-registrar office (SRO) is coming up in Kothrud and is slated to become operational in the first week of Aug, state registration department officials said on Wednesday.The Kothrud facility, along with two model SROs in Mumbai, one in Navi Mumbai and another in…
Corporators on Wednesday demanded decentralisation of waste management in PCMC’s general body meeting Pune: Decentralisation of waste management dominated Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s general body meeting on Wednesday, with corporators across party lines urging the civic administration to reduce the city’s dependence on the Moshi waste depot in the wake of the July 8 tragedy…
Praveen Goyal (L) on his shop receiving ‘stop business’ notice from FDA PUNE: Soon after Maharashtra’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) directed his family’s shop to halt operations over alleged food safety violations, Praveen Goyal, father of Siya Goyal — one of the prime accused in Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal’s murder — said he would…
Moshi’s waste-to-energy plant Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Wednesday suspended chief engineer of the environment department Sanjay Kulkarni and executive engineer Yogesh Alhat for alleged negligence in the July 8 Moshi waste-to-energy plant tragedy that claimed nine lives.Municipal commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi ordered a departmental inquiry against the two after rejecting their replies to…
