Civic officials demolish house belonging to Karnail Singh Virka in Phugewadi Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Thursday began demolishing an unauthorised house in Phugewadi belonging to Karnail Singh Virka, one of the accused arrested in connection with the recent illicit liquor deaths in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad.The civic action was carried out…
NCP candidate Vikram Kakade files nomination for Pune MLC seat on Monday Pune/Nashik/Kolhapur: NCP candidate Vikram Kakade was on Thursday elected unopposed to the Maharashtra Legislative Council from the Pune local authorities constituency after all rival candidates withdrew on the last day for withdrawal of nominations. The elections in Nashik and Jalgaon have, however, become…
Sachin Ghaywal (48) of Kothrud was arrested in a MCOCA case Pune: The Pune city crime branch on Wednesday night arrested Sachin Ghaywal (48) of Kothrud in a MCOCA case after a nine-month hunt at a village near Sikar in Rajasthan. Sachin is the brother of notorious city gangster Nilesh Ghaywal.Police were looking for Sachin…
The district administration has denied imposing any blanket ban Pune: Fuel pump operators in Pune on Thursday largely stopped dispensing diesel in cans and other containers to hospitals, schools, banks, housing societies, businesses and farmers, following a series of directives by district authorities and subsequent enforcement of existing petroleum norms, creating confusion among dealers over…
NCP candidate Vikram Kakade files nomination for Pune MLC seat on Monday Pune: NCP member Vikram Kakade on Thursday said his MLC poll affidavit mentioning a Rs 10-crore payment to Jay Pawar, the younger son of deputy CM Sunetra Pawar, was not a loan but an advance payment for a property deal with Jay.“This is…
The Kharadi police said the recruitment company, operating from a commercial complex in Kharadi, duped jobseeking techies of Rs 43.62 lakh between June 2025 and May this year Pune: Two directors of a recruitment and placement firm were detained on Thursday for allegedly cheating aspiring software engineers by not paying their salaries and failing to…
Police have so far arrested a Class XII dropout and a medical practitioner in connection with the case Pune: Police have identified 15 medical practitioners from Pune, Solapur, Satara and Ahilyanagar for their alleged role in an illegal prenatal sex determination and abortion racket.Superintendent of police (Pune rural) Sandeep Singh Gill on Thursday said all…
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation has for over half a decade touted the proposed Balbharati–Paud Phata Road as a key missing link to decongest a choked urban traffic system. In official reports from 2019, revised post-pandemic in 2023, PMC maintained that Law College Road is on the verge of slipping into perpetual gridlock. The same…
PMC-run Bharat Ratna Atalbihari Vajpayee Medical College (BAVMC) Pune: At least four women employees of PMC-run Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College (BAVMC) have come forward with complaints against an official of the institute, alleging harassment and sending unsolicited messages.Sunita Sawant, dean (additional charge) of the medical college, ordered the official to be sent…
PMC-run Bharat Ratna Atalbihari Vajpayee Medical College (BAVMC) Pune: At least four women employees of PMC-run Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College (BAVMC) have come forward with complaints against a senior official of the institute, alleging harassment and sending unsolicited messages.Sunita Sawant, dean (additional charge) of the medical college, ordered the official to be…
