The court of special judge (Pocso) Mohan Chavan on Friday convicted and sentenced a 52-year-old labourer to rigorous imprisonment for five years for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at her residence in Kondhwa in 2017.According to public prosecutor Arundhati S Brahme, the incident took place on Dec 15, 2017, in a housing society in Kondhwa,…
Pune: Property buyers and sellers in Maharashtra may soon experience faster registrations and improved amenities, as the state registration department prepares to roll out 60 privately operated registration centres starting this July.Modelled after the “passport seva kendra” system, these centres aim to streamline the process, albeit at an additional cost to citizens. These new hubs…
Pune: A Pune Municipal Corporation letter to the National Highways Authority of India has flagged that excavation work on a service road in Bavdhan damaged a sewer line, causing sewage leakage and raising concerns about possible contamination of Pashan lake, where water quality has recently deteriorated.In the March 17 letter, issued by the Kothrud-Bavdhan ward…
Pune: As thick mats of water hyacinth clog Pune’s rivers and aggravate mosquito menace, city MLAs have taken up the issue with Pune Municipal Corporation and other agencies to find a possible solution to the growing problem.Shivajinagar MLA Siddharth Shirole recently inspected the Holkar bridge stretch of the Mula river, where vast portions of the…
Pune: India is witnessing a silent but alarming shift in public health. On World Liver Day today, hepatologists warned that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) — recently renamed metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) — is rapidly rising among children and adolescents, and no longer remaining a condition confined to sedentary adults.Dr Prateek Agarwal, a…
Pune: Until last year, Std III student Yash Khomne from a zilla parishad school in Marathwada rarely raised his hand to answer in class. He struggled with basic reading and often sat silently through lessons. Today, he leads his class in singing, answers questions confidently and even helps peers solve simple arithmetic problems.His transformation began…
Pune: The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Pune Cantonment General Hospital has scaled up surgical care for hundreds of patients after the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) deployed its specialised doctors at the facility.The collaboration is a major relief for the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) which has been financially constrained. Budget limitations have left it struggling to…
Pune: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has directed authorities to fast-track forensic analysis and submit progress reports every five days in connection with the Paratwada case in Amravati. It also sought application of stricter legal provisions while flagging gaps in the ongoing probe into the alleged creation and circulation of obscene videos and images…
Pune: The Wagholi police on Friday registered a case of forgery and cheating against a Shirur-based man (32) for using a fake registration plate on his SUV to evade taxes and car loan EMIs.“The SUV owner is a businessman from Loni Kand and stays in Shirur. About a year ago, he bought the SUV on…
Pune: Villagers of Pimparkhed, Shirur tehsil, about 100 km from Pune, are fearful after fresh sighting of leopards and the capture of five big cats over the last fortnight. The development comes barely four months after three fatal attacks though forest officials intensified efforts to track and catch the animals.Reportedly, new big cats have moved…
