Pune: Over 100 passengers travelling to Lucknow and Delhi on an Air India Express flight endured a frustrating delay of more than 14 hours on Wednesday.The flight (IX-1618), originally scheduled to depart at 4.30pm, was repeatedly rescheduled throughout the evening without clear communication from the airline, passengers said. It finally departed for Lucknow around 7am…
Pune: A special court in the city convicted Sameer Hajju Pathan and Rahul Gajendra Kamble for robbery with use of a deadly weapon and sentenced them to seven years’ imprisonment, but acquitted them of the charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), observing that the existence of an organised crime syndicate is…
Pune: A 25-year-old paan stall owner from Talawade had a narrow escape on Tuesday night, when two men poured petrol on him and tried to set him on fire after he refused to give them a cigarette for free.The Chikhali police have arrested Sachin Punase, 25, of Chakan and Bhushan Suradkar, 25, of Nighoje in…
Pune: A drunk man on Wednesday night hit five people with his friend’s car at a vegetable market in Balajinagar, off Pune-Satara Road, after the latter told him to park it.Worse, he did not have a driving licence. Senior inspector Vitthal Pawar of the Sahakarnagar police station said, “We arrested the driver, Akbar Tamboli (30)…
Pune: Erratic water supply, rising encroachments, crumbling footpaths and worsening traffic took the centre stage at a citizens’ meet in Deccan Gymkhana recently, with residents saying their quality of life has “deteriorated sharply” and demanding time-bound action from corporators.The interaction, organised by the citizens’ group Deccan Gymkhana Parisar Samiti (DGPS), brought together corporators from two…
Pune: As many as 26 people, including two fire brigade officials, suffering from uneasiness were hospitalised following poly aluminium chloride gas leakage from an unattended tank at an open plot near Aai Mata Mandir, close to Gangadham Chowk, around 12.30am on Thursday.The Bibvewadi police said the steel tank corroded over time. A hole developed in…
Pune: Several residents of Saibabanagar woke up to a nauseating stench in the early hours of Thursday and reported respiratory distress, following poly aluminium chloride gas leakage from an unattended tank at an open plot near Aai Mata Mandir, close to Gangadham Chowk.As many as 22 people, including six children, were admitted to Sassoon General…
Pune: The Science and Technology Park (STP) at Savitribai Phule Pune University will launch three new centres of excellence in the near future.The announcement was made during an event organised at the Pune International Centre to mark the completion of STP’s 40 years of operations. A coffee-table book celebrating the four decades of work was…
Pune: RTI activists have raised fresh concerns over bureaucratic appointments to key transparency posts after the state govt introduced new eligibility criteria for information commissioners.A govt resolution (GR) issued on Monday laid down age, education and experience norms for the posts of state chief information commissioner (SCIC) and state information commissioners (SICs), marking a shift…
Pune: The PMC is planning to develop a 9km road link extending from Kondhwa (Khadi Machine Chowk) to Wadki Chowk on Pune-Saswad road following resolution of land acquisition hurdles that long delayed Katraj-Kondhwa road widening.The project aims to significantly strengthen the road network in south Pune. To kickstart the process, the civic administration will appoint…
