Pune: Officials of a private training academy in Handewadi in Hadapsar were booked on Saturday for abetting the suicide of a 16-year-old student, a resident of Beed, who was found hanging in the hostel room on Nov 10, 2025. The Phursungi police had recorded it as an accidental death the same day.The academy trains students…
Kolhapur: The Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has written to the superintendent of police (SP) and commissioner of police of all districts and city commissionerates to set up Special Juvenile Police Units (SJPUs) — mandated as per Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.The commission members claim that, as per the Act, child welfare police…
Pune: The Loni Kand police on Friday afternoon rescued a 12-year-old boy who was engaged in construction work for a toilet and washroom at a Zilla Parishad (ZP) school in Wadegaon, Shirur taluka.Police constable Rohit Mane from Loni Kand police station filed a complaint against the contractor. A case has been registered under the Juvenile…
PUNE: The Indian Air Force on Saturday constituted a court of inquiry to determine the exact cause behind the hard landing of the Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet on Friday night at Pune airport, prompting the runway closure for about 10 hours.The Indian Air Force (IAF) spokesperson, Wing Commander Jaideep Singh, confirmed the development.Another senior IAF officer…
Pune: Pedestrians and motorists across the city are facing increasing safety risks as the civic administration has failed to reinstall speed breakers removed months ago for an international cycling event.The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had levelled speed breakers along approximately 35 km of road stretches to facilitate the race earlier this year. However, many of…
Pune: The PMC is working on a plan to construct a bridge parallel to the Rajaram Bridge to address traffic congestion on Sinhagad Road.It is in the process of appointing a consulting firm to finalise the technical design and assess the feasibility of the proposal.The existing Rajaram Bridge serves as a vital two-way link between…
Pune: A dispute between two cyber fraudsters helped police bust a “digital arrest” scam, in which an 85-year-old woman from Camp was cheated of ₹97 lakh, and prevent possible transfer of another ₹50 lakh to the crooks. The duo had successfully swindled Rs97 lakh from the woman, but a fallout over how to divide the…
The court of special judge (Pocso) Mohan Chavan on Friday convicted and sentenced a 52-year-old labourer to rigorous imprisonment for five years for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at her residence in Kondhwa in 2017.According to public prosecutor Arundhati S Brahme, the incident took place on Dec 15, 2017, in a housing society in Kondhwa,…
Pune: Property buyers and sellers in Maharashtra may soon experience faster registrations and improved amenities, as the state registration department prepares to roll out 60 privately operated registration centres starting this July.Modelled after the “passport seva kendra” system, these centres aim to streamline the process, albeit at an additional cost to citizens. These new hubs…
Pune: A Pune Municipal Corporation letter to the National Highways Authority of India has flagged that excavation work on a service road in Bavdhan damaged a sewer line, causing sewage leakage and raising concerns about possible contamination of Pashan lake, where water quality has recently deteriorated.In the March 17 letter, issued by the Kothrud-Bavdhan ward…
