Pune: Ordering a cake online to celebrate the birthday of her husband cost a private school teacher (51) Rs 1.31 lakh after she contacted a fraudulent number to check order status on Jan 31.The woman lodged a complaint against cybercrooks with the Hinjewadi police on Tuesday.An officer from the Hinjewadi police said the woman ordered…
Pune: The arrest of a delivery person with a firearm in Pimpri on April 29 led the Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch to recover eight more country-made pistols and 46 cartridges, and to arrest three more accused.Police investigation revealed that the arrested men had brought these firearms from a criminal on the police records from Western…
Pune: After recording a 35% rise in international passenger traffic in the 2025-26 financial year compared to the previous fiscal, the city airport is now bracing for a slowdown. The ongoing West Asia crisis and rising aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices are expected to significantly impact international travel from the city.The effects are already visible,…
Pune: The cyber police have registered a case of cheating against cybercrooks for cheating a Sinhagad Road-based software engineer (49) of Rs 62 lakh by promising him handsome returns on his investment in online share-trading.The cheating took place between April and May last year. The complainant kept waiting for a long time to get his…
Pune: In Maharashtra, one child is sexually abused every hour, according to the 2023 crime data in the state. This is just the reported numbers. Then begin marches, protests and ministerial statements advocating fast track court and death penalty which the public steeped in fury also demands. Unfortunately, the noise fades quickly, people forget and…
Pune: The court of additional sessions judge DP Ragit in the city on Wednesday convicted and sentenced an industrial firm employee to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping his 13-year-old daughter in their house in the Hadapsar area on May 13, 2018.The court also imposed a Rs 50,000 fine on the convict, which shall…
Pune: Several students of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, protested on Monday and Tuesday after multiple first-year examinees were allegedly “subject to non-consensual body contact, including frisking, pat-downs, and even a harrowing strip-search”.According to an email sent by the general secretary of the IISER Student Council, a first-year girl student was called…
Pune: Investors are showing early interest in the land acquisition process for the proposed Purandar airport from Thursday, but primary landowners are not in a hurry.Several farmers are disappointed over the state govt’s Rs1.61 crore per acre compensation package. Many from Pargaon and neighbouring villages said the offered rate fell short of expectations.“We were expecting…
Pune: The Mundhwa police late on Tuesday night recovered body of a 27-year-old woman from a spot located near the garbage depot in Keshavnagar.Police said the exact cause of death will be clear after the post-mortem report is received.The deceased has been identified as a married woman who resided in Wadgaonsheri. According to the police,…
Pune:Following the protests by the villagers and relatives of a three-year-old girl, who was raped and murdered by a 65-year-old man Bhimrao Kamble on Friday, the Pune city police on Tuesday issued orders banning protest and agitations at the Wadgaon Bridge on the Katraj – Dehu road bypass.On Saturday, the villagers and family members of…
