Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh is likely to get questioned by Pune Police in connection with a probe into activities of certain Maoist, which has earlier witnessed the arrest of some high-profile activists. Digvijaya Singh’s cellphone number was reportedly mentioned in one of the letters the Pune police claimed to have[Read More…]
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Pune: Student suffers facial paralysis after slapped in school, teacher arrested
A Pune based art teacher was arrested on Monday after a child’s parents lodged a complaint stating that the teacher slapped their 11-year-old student for not completing a school assignment, which led to the boy getting facial paralysis. Revealing the details of the assault, the boy said he was slapped and[Read More…]
SC ruling on activists vindicates Pune police: Fadnavis
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday welcomed the Supreme Court ruling on the arrest of five rights activists and termed it a “victory for the Pune police and the country.” “We welcome the decision based on Pune police investigations and evidence it collected has been considered valid. The[Read More…]
For better recovery of patients, family wards to be set up in govt-run mental hospitals
A pilot project has been proposed under which a family ward is to be set up at the government-run mental hospitals in various cities, which will allow a family member of an inmate to stay at the hospital, ensuring better recovery of the patient. Such wards have already been launched[Read More…]
Bhima Koregoan violence: Culprits walk free while government hounds activists
Dalits, every year celebrate the 1818 victory of the lower caste Mahar soldiers in the British army over Brahmin led Maratha Empire.
Police raids on human rights activists’ homes in Mumbai, Ranchi, Hyderabad
Pune police team raided human rights activists in Mumbai, Ranchi, Faridabad, and Hyderabad on Tuesday morning. The police called these raids a part of an investigation into a public meeting that was organised few days before a caste-related violence took place in Bhima Koregaon near Pune in January 2018. The[Read More…]
Pune: Man puts 300 ‘I Am Sorry’ banners across city to apologise to girlfriend
A 25-year-old man puts 300 banners and hoarding across the Pimpri-Chinchwad area near Pune, Maharashtra apparently to apologise to his girlfriend after a tiff. Nilesh Khedekar who is a local businessman, placed the banners which read the message ‘Shivde, I am sorry’ along with a heart. While the city might[Read More…]
Hackers bank-loot Rs 94 crore in ‘most liveable Pune’
While Pune was recently entitled ‘most liveable city’ under Ease of Living Index, city’s Cosmos Bank, hailed as one of the oldest cooperative banks in India, was attacked and transactions of nearly 94.42 crore have been carried out in bank accounts outside India. The officials of the cooperative bank located in[Read More…]
Ease of Living Index: Pune ranks on top, Delhi 65th
Out of 4,000 cities in India, Pune has topped the Ease of Living Index released by Ministry of Housing. In context with the most liveable cities of India, Maharashtra’s Pune, Navi Mumbai and Greater Mumbai are the top three preferred cities while national capital Delhi was ranked a lowly 65[Read More…]
Hyderabad: IKEA store attracts 40,000 customers on first day
About 40,000 people visited IKEA’s first India store on its opening day here, a company spokesperson told IANS. The world’s leading Swedish home furnishings retailer received a huge response from customers on Thursday. “With a huge crowd from across the city thronging the store in the evening, the IKEA staff found it a bit challenging to[Read More…]
Maharashtra: Farmer baths with 35 litre milk amid protest against drop in milk price
While Mumbai and Pune dairy farmers called for a milk protest on Sunday mid-night demanding hike in milk price, one of the farmers took batch with 35 litres of milk, the video of which is going viral on social media. The farmers have been raising their voice demanding a hike[Read More…]
Cauvery protests: IPL matches shifted from Chennai to Pune
Jaipur: All the remaining Indian Premier League (IPL) matches of Chennai Super Kings will be shifted out of Chennai to Pune in the wake of Tuesday’s violence over the Cauvery waters dispute. “CSK will be asked to move their home matches to Pune as the Chennai police has expressed their inability[Read More…]
Pune: Deprived of food, man stabs mother, eats her heart with chutney, say cops
A 27-year-old man, in an allegedly drunk condition, stabbed his mother to death and later feasted on her heart along with ‘chutney’ and pepper, at Kolhapur on Monday. He took this extreme step as he was deprived of food. An hour later, he was spotted walking out of the house[Read More…]
Pune: 25 year old techie commits suicide, says no job security in IT
Identified as Gopikrishna Durgaprasad, a software engineer from Andhra Pradesh who started working in Pune three days ago, jumped to his death in the early hours of Wednesday. The assistant police inspector (API) Dilip Jaisingkar of Vimantal police station confirmed the news. A note is found by the police officials, written[Read More…]
Maruti to extend its contribution for ‘Skill India’ initiative; to set up skill building centres
As part of its CSR (corporate social responsibility) campaign, Maruti Suzuki will invest Rs 6 crore to start 15 Automobile Skill Enhancement Centres (ASEC) by August 2017. These centres will be operated in partnership with government-run ITIs (Industrial Training Institute) across 11 states in the country. The first out of[Read More…]
Pustakanche gaon: India’s first book village
Book lovers in Pune are in for a treat. While the race between ebooks and printed books tighten with digitization, a ‘book village’ in Bhilar is letting you walk and pick through 15,000 rare books of various periodicals, novels and reference books about Maharashtra and Marathi culture written by prominent[Read More…]
Frequent Lufthansa Pune-Frankfurt flight from June
Pune: Two engineering students stripped, beaten to death in Lonavala
In a shocking incident, two engineering students were found beaten to death on a remote hill near INS Shivaji in Lonavala on Monday. According to the police, unknown people had stripped the 22-year-old man and his female friend and knotted their hands before hitting on their heads. A resident of[Read More…]
Drunk bikers gouge out eyes of a pedestrian
As per TOI reports, 18-year-old Ramavatar Banwarilal Jatav was beaten to death and his eyes were extorted out by two drunken youths on a bike in Pune on Saturday. Police said Jatav was a skilled labourer specialising in tile fitting from Madhya Pradesh. He had come to Pune to visit[Read More…]
Manu Pillai: Making History Interesting
Meet the dynamic and young Manu S Pillai, who is a sought-after author riding high on the success of his first book, The Ivory Throne, a historic account of Travancore that has been winning hearts and awards, travelling across the globe while also handling an active political office. Here’s an[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram first, Pune second, Kolkata ranked third in City-Systems survey
The Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS), released by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy on Tuesday, ranked 21 key cities from 18 states in the nation, based on 83 parameters on the City-Systems framework. In the annual survey, Bengaluru has slipped from rank 12 in 2015 to rank 16[Read More…]
Committee set to frame guidelines for colleges in Maharashtra
A committee of eight members has been set by the state government to frame a ‘clear and detailed’ guideline for the approval of new colleges, courses and other divisions of Higher and Technical Education. Old norms will be revised intricately before implementing new frameworks. The committee headed by Dr RS[Read More…]
No permission for rally in ‘communally sensitive’ area to Asaduddin Owaisi
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi was denied permission to hold a rally in the city’s “communally sensitive” Bhavani Peth locality on Tuesday by the Pune Police. The rally was scheduled by the party’s city unit to promote an applicant ahead of the February 21 Pune Municipal Corporation polls,[Read More…]
Pune heritage festival inaugurated on Thursday
Pune: Woman techie found dead on Infosys campus; guard arrested
In a shocking incident, a 25-year-old woman working with Infosys was found dead on Sunday at her office in Rajiv Gandhi Infotech Park in Hinjewadi in Pune. The incident happened on the ninth floor of the Infosys building when K Rasila Raju, who hailed from Kerala basically, allegedly strangled with[Read More…]