Pune: The civic administration has decided to widen a long-pending stretch of the main Aundh Road, ahead of Bremen Chowk and towards the Rajiv Gandhi bridge, in a bid to remove the bottleneck faced by vehicles due to narrow carriageway width. The three heritage structures located along this stretch will now be shifted to other…
Pune: The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB), following rise in complaints regarding poorly lit roads and growing safety concerns, has officially sanctioned Rs44 lakh to overhaul malfunctioning streetlights.The PCB’s general body meeting on Monday addressed this concern and finalised a private firm to manage the comprehensive repair schedule.An internal survey carried out by the board’s electric…
Pune: A day after a disturbed man (24) hailing from Pauri Garhwal in Uttarakhand dangerously drove a PMPML bus from Dengle Bridge to Goodluck Chowk before being overpowered, the Shivajinagar police said that they will act against the bus driver, who left the keys unattended in the ignition socket, only if PMPML lodges a complaint.The…
Pune: Bharati Vidyapeeth police have arrested four men from the Katraj area for hacking to death Tejas Dattatray Pilane (24), a resident of Dhankawadi, on the service road of the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass around 1.30 am on Friday over a dispute related to dancing at a wedding ceremony.The assailants fled the crime scene and were…
Pune: PMPML buses are potentially exposed to vandalism and theft as nearly 125 buses from the overall fleet are consistently scrambling for parking across the city. This is despite the authorities setting up 17 bus depots, and with the Charholi depot established just last year.On Saturday, a visibly ‘disturbed’ youth, as per the police, hailing…
Pune: The city on Sunday continued to reel under scorching heat with the maximum temperature in various areas hovering over 40° C again marking the season’s highest, so far. Koregaon Park area was the hottest neighbourhood at 42.9° C, followed closely by Lohegaon at 42.7° C, Shivajinagar at 41.8° C, Chinchwad at 41.2° C, Magarpatta…
Pune: Three workers died of suffocation caused by toxic gases while cleaning a wastewater tank on the premises of a mushroom-producing company in Belsar village near Jejuri, around 4.30pm on Sunday.Jejuri police identified the deceased as Pintu Rajesh Prasad (23), Vyas Soham Kumar (22), and Gautam Ramsharan Kushwaha (36), all three hailing from Deoria in…
Pune: The Warje police have arrested Sahil Raut (21) and Pritam Thombre (20) and detained two minor accomplices for allegedly opening fire at a murder accused inside a salon in Warje on Friday night.In the shooting, a Warje-resident Nehal Shinde (26) suffered injuries. A stray bullet also hit a salon customer, Amol Adhav, on his…
Pune: Shivajinagar police have detained three men, all residents of Senapati Bapat road, for stealing iron lids of the drainage chambers from the Shimla Office chowk on Ganeshkhind road at around 10am on Saturday.Police constable Sheshrao Bhalerao, who was on duty in the chowk, noticed them stealing the lids and immediately stopped the autorickshaw in…
The Talegaon-Dabhade police on Saturday arrested a 40-year-old brick-kiln worker on the charge of bludgeoning his son-in-law, 30, to death. The murder happened on Friday at Parandwadi in Maval taluka, when the victim, Laxman Mukane, was quarrelling with his wife. The accused, Santosh Waghmare, initially tried to intervene between the couple, but when Mukane would…
