Pune: Two directors of a private firm were arrested on Wednesday on the charge of promising jobs to about 100 freshers in the IT sector in lieu of money and cheating them.A court remanded the arrested duo — Amol Balasaheb Mahadik and Omkar Dadaso Mahadik, both directors of Accure Softtech Pvt Ltd set up in…
Pune: The standing committee of Pune Municipal Corporation on Thursday approved Rs 5.8 crore for Hadapsar-Gadital flyover repairs, even as the structure is likely to be demolished for a proposed Metro line and a double-decker bridge from Bhairoba nullah chowk to Yavat.Standing committee chairperson Shrinath Bhimale said the repair work was essential as a precautionary…
Pune: A Narhe-based woman (46) lost Rs52.7 lakh in an online share-trading fraud between Jan 30 and April 2.The woman lodged a complaint with the Pune cyber police on Wednesday. An officer from the Pune cyber police said the complainant’s husband was the director of a software company in Hinjewadi. In Jan, the woman came…
Pune: A preliminary report by an inquiry committee probing alleged financial irregularities in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s (PCMC) accounts department has found that rules were violated in the clearance of bills for 14 projects worth Rs 60 crore in a single day—March 30 this year.The 243-page report, prepared by a committee headed by the…
Pune: An unidentified man stole three mobile phones from the Mula Road area in Khadki, used them to pose as their owners, duped their contacts into transferring money on various pretexts, withdrew the cash from an ATM, and later returned the devices.The incidents occurred between April 10 and 12. A 49-year-old government hospital employee lodged…
Pune: State govt is planning to offer basic Marathi training to autorickshaw and cab drivers who do not speak the language, following its decision to make knowing Marathi mandatory or face possible cancellation of their licences.State transport minister Pratap Sarnaik said on Thursday that, during a meeting with representatives from the Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh…
Pune: Cybercrooks duped a Vimannagar-based engineering products manufacturing firm of Rs73 lakh through spoofing emails between June 2024 and April last year.The firm’s director lodged a complaint with the Pune cyber police on Wednesday.An officer from the cyber police said the complainant’s company belonged to the engineering products manufacturing sector. The firm had contacted its…
Pune: The Hadapsar police on Wednesday registered a case of causing death by negligence against the chairman and committee members of a housing society in the same area after a four-and-a-half-year-old girl died on April 15, following the collapse of a slide on her in the society’s play area on April 7.The girl’s father (34),…
Pune: The Deccan Gymkhana police on Wednesday arrested a man (34) from Dattawadi and detained his minor accomplice in connection with the murder of 32-year-old Krushal Kasbe of Dhankawdi, former security guard of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).“The murder was the fallout of a dispute between Kasbe and the accused, Omkar Kamble of Dattawadi, over…
Pune: The widening of the 3.5km Katraj-Kondhwa road stretch is expected to pick up pace with state govt approving cash compensation for project-related land acquisition, a key issue that stalled the PMC initiative for nearly eight years.Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had taken up the the project in 2018. “Most landowners along the stretch had, however,…
