Pune: Cybercrooks duped a woman from Nigdi of Rs 95,000 on the pretext of helping her to lodge a complaint with the customer care section of an e-commerce website.The fraud happened on April 26, when the woman tried to purchase a product online. Her order did not place, but the money was debited from her…
Pune: The 65-year-old accused in the rape and murder of a three-year-old girl in Nasrapur village in Bhor taluka of Pune district had twice faced sexual offence charges earlier and walked free, raising questions over investigation lapses and delayed justice.Police said the man, a father of six girls and a boy, was acquitted in 2019…
Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch have arrested five suspects within a week of the theft of silver and imitation jewellery worth Rs77.22 lakh from a jewellery showroom at Chakan on April 23.A crime branch team led by inspector Santosh Kasbe checked CCTV footage on the 550km route from Chakan to Gujarat and nabbed the suspects….
Lived for over a century, axed without warning for a bridgeOn a routine cycle ride in Koregaon Park on March 14 this year, civic activist Rupesh Kesekar was stunned when he passed by the ongoing Sadhu Vaswani Bridge construction. The new four-lane bridge is replacing the old, two-lane structure to ease traffic congestion in the…
Nashik: D S Swami took charge as superintendent of police (SP) of Nashik Rural on Saturday. He succeeds outgoing SP Balasaheb Patil who has been transferred to Mumbai as the deputy commissioner of police (DCP).In Ahilyanagar, Mummaka Sudarshan took charge as the SP from the outgoing officer Somnath Gharge. Speaking to TOI, both SPs stated…
Pune: Once held up as a flagship ‘Smart City’ zone, Baner-Balewadi now appears to be anything but smart, hosting streets littered with unattended garbage, erratic waste pickups and the acrid smoke of trash going up in flames. Add battered roads and an on-again, off-again water supply, and residents’ patience is wearing thin.Baner-Balewadi was identified as…
Pune: Pistachios, which are imported from Iran and play a crucial role in India’s premium dry fruit market, have been in short supply since late Feb.Traders across the city reported that prices of pistachios have risen by 20% to 50% as stocks deplete, with no clarity on when fresh consignments will arrive. Iranian pistachios are…
Pune: Strict measures to curb copying, nearly 91% CCTV camera coverage, and the use of drones and other technologies led to a 2% decline in the 2026 results compared to 2025. Of the 14.33 lakh students who appeared for the exam, 12.86 lakh cleared the assessment with a pass percentage of 89.8. Two students scored…
Pune: Getting a scribe on time, practicing with them to ensure that they can understand, interpret and write the answers well and in time is a major challenge for candidates with disability, leaving them vulnerable. Riddhi Patil, a visually impaired student studying in Std XII at BMCC College, Pune broke this chain of dependence by…
Pune: The number of students scoring 90% and above marks in HSC shrank to 7,510 this year compared with last year’s 8,352. It was also the lowest in the last three years. Mumbai division has 3,466, the highest number of such students followed by Amravati division at 1,003 and then Pune division at 981.Mahendra Ganpule,…
