Pune: Pune Rural police have arrested a 23-year-old CRPF personnel who deserted the force and allegedly took to stealing motorcycles.The police recovered 19 stolen motorcycles worth Rs30 lakh from the accused, Samadhan Kale (23), of Phaltan in Satara district. A local crime branch team led by inspector Pramod Kshirsagar traced and arrested Kale with the…
Pune: Pune Rural police on Friday registered a case against a man from Pune city on the charge of outraging the modesty of a 14-year-old girl. The girl’s mother lodged a complaint with the police.An officer from the Pune Rural police said the girl had come into contact with the man in June. He had…
Keshavnagar flyover is ready for inauguration Pune: Delayed for long, the Keshavnagar-Kharadi flyover will be opened to commuters at 4pm on Sunday.Locals and commuters have been demanding that the authorities open the facility for them at the earliest. The project aims to ease traffic congestion in rapidly developing Keshavnagar-Kharadi as well as nearby areas, said…
Pune: Three men with criminal records were arrested for allegedly assaulting a delivery person and robbing him of Rs 22,000 on Friday.A Phursungi police team led by police sub-inspector Bapusaheb Khandare arrested the trio: Anuk Mane (21), Pranav Shinde (22) and Samir Chavan (19), based on a tip-off and with the help of a UPI…
Rs4,18,62,942 of the Sassoon hospital was allegedly transferred into bank accounts of 23 government employees and private people without authorisation Pune: The court of additional sessions judge, D S Deshmukh, on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a woman (41) in connection with the alleged Rs4.18-crore misappropriation of government funds from Sassoon General Hospital.The…
PCMC demolishes structures at Moi Phata in Chikhali built within the Indrayani river flood line in May 2025 PCMC demolishes structures at Moi Phata in Chikhali built within the Indrayani river flood line in May 2025 PCMC demolishes structures at Moi Phata in Chikhali built within the Indrayani river flood line in May 2025 PCMC…
Pune: Notional house numbers assigned to households in the electoral rolls are proving to be a headache for BLOs as they cannot reach voters whose existing addresses are incomplete or inadequate, officials on the ground said.Officials fear that tracing voters with notional house numbers could become even more difficult unless the address details are simultaneously…
Pune: Election officials and booth-level officers (BLOs) in Pune district now have the additional exercise of verifying and updating the actual house number of every elector. The process, officials and field staff said, will be difficult to complete within the tight timeframe.The district administration has issued instructions to electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant EROs…
A BLO verifies a voter’s details for the SIR process in Kasba Peth Pune: At least 27.83 lakh Pune district voters are in the absent, shifted, dead, duplicate and others category in the SIR, accounting for 30% of the 90.80 lakh electorate. Untraced voters in SIR exercises in the country have been between 13% and…
Pune’s key stories today include a SpiceJet flight delay, the new Marathi test for commercial drivers and a Pune link to the Sukhbir Badal attack probe PUNE: Pune is seeing strong interest today in three stories — continuing flight disruptions, the upcoming Marathi language test for commercial drivers and the investigation into the attack on…
