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Turncoat MLAs in touch over return to fold: NCP

20 hours ago

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Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Maharashtra unit chief Jayant Patil on Sunday said the 14 to 15 turncoats, who had left the party before the state assembly elections in October, are in touch with senior party leaders in an attempt to return to the party fold...

Hospital inaugurated twice stays shut

22 hours ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 18, 2019)..

5k died in Maha last yr for not wearing helmet

23 hours ago

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Not wearing helmets killed more than 3,500 riders and over 1,700 pillion riders in the state last year. With this, the state was among the top three states with the highest road deaths in this category. Also, the state has not done well in complying with laws regarding use of seatbelts. More than 600 motorists and over 1,000 co-travellers died for not wearing seatbelts last year. In this group, the state is among the top five in India to have the highest road fatalities...

Pune: Two killed in accident on Pune-Mum E-way

yesterday

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Two persons, including the driver of a refrigerated pickup van, were killed after the vehicle crashed into a trailer that had stopped along the shoulder lane of the Pune-Mumbai Expressway on Saturday around 3pm ...

Teenager gives up crime after counselling

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A 13-year-old boy from Warje had a fancy for motorcycles and scooters and he regularly stole many two-wheelers from the area for joyrides. He was detained thrice and after regular counselling from the police’s Bharosa cell, he decided to give up crime and pursue education...

Nagpur man's expertise to curb NCR pollution

yesterday

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Environment researcher Vishwanath Joshi (22), who has developed a Hydrogen-based technology to deal with severe pollution levels in Delhi-NCR. The Nagpur-based youth had developed the technology while pursuing his research in Japan. The Centre informed the Supreme Court that it will seek Joshi's help in finding a solution for Delhi-NCR's severe pollution levels...

Maha govt formation: Pawar-Sonia to meet today

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A week after interacting with Sonia Gandhi’s confidant and advisor Ahmed Patel, NCP president Sharad Pawar will meet the Congress chief in New Delhi on Monday. The talks are expected to lead to a final call on a three-way tie-up with the Shiv Sena to stake a claim for the formation of a government in the state...

Waiter by day, thief by night, WB man arrested

yesterday

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Nigdi police have recently arrested a 21-year-old man and recovered 13 stolen motorcycles worth Rs 10.90 lakh from him. The suspect had stolen these motorcycles from Nigdi, Hinjewadi, Wakad, Sangvi and Deccan area...

Maha guv grants relief for 1cr rain-hit farmers

2 days ago

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One crore farmers in the state whose kharif crops were damaged by unseasonal rains will finally get some relief...

Warmer nights expected to continue till Nov 28

2 days ago

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The typical winter chill may escape Pune district as well as some other districts of Madhya Maharashtra until November 28, an extended range forecast of the IMD indicated...

PMC has ‘no flats’ for 26 families

2 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 16, 2019)..

Pune: 2 killed as bike crashes into a sedan

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Two youths riding on a sports bike succumbed to multiple injuries after their vehicle crashed into a sedan taking a U-turn and then hit the edge of a road median in Amanora Township around 10am on Thursday...

New 6-lane flyover to ease traffic at Katraj jn

3 days ago

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Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday promised a flyover over Katraj junction on Satara Road soon, offering some relief to commuters suffering from the daily slow-moving traffic and congestion here. ..

18 workers injured in cylinder blast in Raigad

3 days ago

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Pune: 'Raze all police chowkies under flyovers'

3 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 15, 2019)..

Bite into Malawi mangoes to beat the winter chill

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Mango lovers can now taste the king of fruits in the winter months too. Pune’s Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) market recently got its first consignment of Malawi mangoes from Africa for this season...

Pune constable booked for raping woman

4 days ago

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Hyperloop project regulator yet to be decided

4 days ago

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The mystery of the water-logged highway

4 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 14, 2019)..

Equipment to raise real-time flood alert

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A flood warning equipment installed by the civic authorities on Holkar Bridge over the Mutha has been stolen, police said on Wednesday...

Pune: Farmers hold protest over unpaid claims

5 days ago

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Bhagwat Patil, a 53-year-old farmer from Mohgaon in Beed district, is among the 300 and odd farmers who gathered in front of the Pune office of the Oriental Insurance Company. He is among those who have not received the insurance money for the 2018 kharif season...

This is the w(hole) picture

5 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 13, 2019)..

Water treatment plant: PCMC to cut 1,000 trees

6 days ago

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The civic body has proposed to chop off over 1,000 trees for the construction of water treatment plant (WTP) in Chikhali...

Tricksters create mirror images of mobile phones

6 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

An 18-year-old student from Vishrantwadi received a text message on his cellphone, promising a reward of Rs500 for downloading a link. Finding the offer too tempting to resist, he downloaded the link only to lose Rs72,000. The money was transferred from his e-wallet to another account...

Mother fixes 9-yr-old's marriage for Rs 30k

6 days ago

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A woman has been arrested along with five others for allegedly fixing her 9-year-old daughter's wedding to a 20-year-old man in exchange for Rs 30,000 in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district, police said on Tuesday...

Pune police book Delhi man for stalking woman

7 days ago

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The Wanowrie police have booked a 30-year-old man from New Delhi on the charge of stalking a woman since June 2018 after she rejected his marriage proposal...

Pune Metro: Panel to study objections on flooding

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed a three-member expert committee to consider the objections raised by activists following flooding in areas around the Pune Metro rail piers on a 1.45km stretch of the Mutha riverbed...

Pune: Keep house & societies clean, get rewards

7 days ago

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The civic body is planning to reward the housing societies and residences keeping their premises clean to take the solid waste management to the grassroots level...

Maha power tussle has babus on tenterhooks

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

There is an uneasy calm in the bureaucracy over the fluid political situation following resignation of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis...

PCMC invites participatory budget inputs

7 days ago

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The civic body has invited suggestions from citizens for development works as part of the 2020-21 participatory budget...

Pune man's innovative tents for mountaineers

8 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The call of the mountains is compelling, beckoning climbers to a majestic experience or stirring in them prospects of valorous conquests. Adversity on the way up strangely seems to accentuate the appeal of the lofty landscapes. They offer one a crack at heady freedom and satisfaction for the inner self, in consonance with what Edmund Hillary said, “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”..

1992 to now: Ram links & cleaves Sena-BJP

8 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 1o, 2019..

Property tax up by 5% & 10% in PCB limits

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has hiked the property tax of residential and commercial properties by around 5% and 10% respectively...

Vegetable supply from Nashik drops

9 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Domestic and overseas supply of vegetables from Nashik and some adjoining districts has been severely affected by the crop damaged caused by last month’s unseasonal rain...

Pune: Man booked for daughter's sexual assault

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A 30-year-old man was booked on Thursday on the charges of sexually assaulting his five-year-old daughter for the past four months...

Min temp may fall to 15°C by month-end in Pune

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Night temperatures in Pune fell on Friday, dipping by a degree in Shivajinagar and two degrees in Lohegaon. Friday’s minimum temperatures were the lowest so far this November. The India Meteorological Department recorded the temperatures early in the morning...

Pune: 4 abduct driver, rob medicines

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A gang of four men abducted a driver of a container and robbed medicines worth Rs5.93 crore in the early hours of Thursday...

Thergaon locals track origins of mystery trash

10 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 8, 2019)..

Pune: Man vows marriage, dupes woman

11 days ago

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The Chandannagar police on Wednesday booked a fraudster for duping a 40-year-old woman from Kharadi of over Rs1.4 lakh in a matrimonial fraud since July 2015...

Pune: Police plan ‘3D’ zebra crossings

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The city traffic police are planning to paint zebra crossings on a number of roads in a way that it creates a three dimensional (3D) effect and prompts motorists to slow down...

Man gunned down by assailants in Maha's Satara

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

started shooting at him, an official said...

MSRTC to launch own bottled water, ‘Nath Jal’

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The MSRTC will soon launch its bottled water brand, ‘Nath Jal’, for the commuters on the lines of Indian Railways’ ‘Rail Neer’...

Elgar case: Court rejects bail pleas of activists

12 days ago

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Special UAPA judge S R Navandar on Wednesday rejected the bail pleas of six of the nine arrested activists in the Elgar Parishad case, holding that the material brought on record by the prosecution revealed that they were not only passive but also active members and were doing everything to achieve the objectives of a banned organisation...

Cyclone Maha: Light to intense rain spells today

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Thunder storms accompanied by lightning, gusty winds with speed reaching 30-40kmph at isolated places in extreme northern parts of Maharashtra will continue till Thursday due to the cyclonic storm 'Maha' which, by Thursday early morning, may weaken to a deep depression and later a depression...

Co-op bank fraud: Police custody for ex-Cong MLA

12 days ago

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Encroachments on Ambil Odha led to flooding

12 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 6, 2019)..

Toddler abducted from movie theatre in Pune

13 days ago

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The Vishrambaug police have booked an unidentified man for kidnapping a one-and-a-half-year-old girl from the premises of a theatre located at Appa Balwant Chowk in Shaniwar Peth on Monday evening...

Pune: Delay of flights leaves terminal ‘houseful’

13 days ago

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Chaos prevailed at the city airport in the early hours of Tuesday with multiple flight delays from Monday evening, prompting overcrowding in the terminal building. ..

Here comes the sun after a five-month wet season

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

After 158 days of cloudy skies and constant rainfall, the India Meteorological Department on Tuesday put out a “Mainly Clear Skies” forecast from November 10...

Nashik onion price nears all-time high

13 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The average wholesale onion price at the Lasalgaon APMC, the country's largest wholesale onion market, shot up by Rs 650 to touch Rs 5,551 per quintal on Monday, nearing the all-time high of Rs 5,700 per quintal recorded on August 22, 2015...

Maha CM asks Amit Shah for help to farmers

13 days ago

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CM Devendra Fadnavis met Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday to seek assistance for losses caused to the state's farmers due to unseasonal rain...

Leopard critical after highway mishap in Junnar

14 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A seven-year-old female leopard was hurt on its left front leg, below the left eye and has internal head injuries when it was hit by an unknown vehicle on Ahmednagar-Kalyan highway in Junnar taluka on Sunday...

Rain effect: Onion prices at 4-yr high in Pune

14 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The unseasonal rains in the major onion belt of Maharashtra resulted in the price of the bulb spurting to Rs 57-60 per kg in the Agriculture Produce Market Committee here on Monday, which was similar to the all-time-high price of Rs 5,700 per quintal witnessed in August 2015. The retail hike in onion prices has been massive in the last week, with buyers now paying Rs 80-90 per kg in Pune...

Garbage management: PMC seeks suggestions

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The civic administration seems to have set itself a tall target in its wish to notch up a five-star rating tag under the ‘Swachh Sarvekshan’ mission 2020...

Kolhapur: Balloon gas cylinder blast kills girl

yesterday

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A 13-year-old girl died in the blast of a balloon gas cylinder at Ichalkaranji in western Maharashtra's Kolhapur district on Sunday, police said...

Buffering Sena 2.0

yesterday

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 17, 2019)..

Lawyer cites DSK’s conduct for securing bail

2 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Defence lawyer Shrikant Shivade on Friday told a special court that the state prosecution was yet to furnish evidence to prove that builder DS Kulkarni (DSK) and his family members had committed an offence of cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust and fraudulent defaults...

Pune: 2-mnth-old girl deserted at Sassoon hosp

2 days ago

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The Bund Garden police on Friday booked the parents of a two-month-old baby girl for abandoning her beneath the water tank on the premises of the Sassoon General Hospital...

Pune: Prices of pulses, grains surge by 25-30%

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

It’s a double jolt for consumers as prices of pulses and foodgrains have shot up too after a steep rise in vegetables prices...

90% chikungunya cases in 4 months: PMC report

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The cases of chikungunya, a vector-borne ailment like dengue, surged considerably in the city in the past four months...

Highway robbers attack cabbie, flee with car

3 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Four men attacked a 25-year-old driver of a cab aggregator and drove away with his vehicle and a cellphone, collectively worth Rs1.08 lakh, at Dehugaon on Mumbai-Pune highway around 2.45am on Wednesday. The car was later recovered from a village near Talegaon...

Bank manager, 2 others booked for cheating woman

3 days ago

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An offence has been registered against three people, including the manager of District Co- operative Bank's Partur branch, for allegedly cheating a woman of Rs 2.88 lakh, police said on Friday...

Nashik Phata-Chakan route: Metro Neo on cards

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MahaMetro) is considering adopting the ‘Metro Neo’ model for the 16km Nashik Phata-Chakan stretch...

Techie loses Rs 98k online in SMS-based fraud

4 days ago

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A software engineer (32) from Wakad was duped of Rs98,000 in his search for the contact number of a Shivajinagar-based wrist watch showroom listed on the internet...

Rs 110 cr okayed for CCTVs at police stations

4 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The Maharashtra government has increased the budget for the installation of CCTV cameras inside police stations across the state from Rs 72.60 crore to Rs 110 crore, an official said on Thursday...

Agitation soon if no relief, warns Kisan Sabha

4 days ago

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farmers only for a photo-session as tourists.They forget the...

General category mayor for Pune, woman in PCMC

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The city is all set to get its new mayor from the general category for the next two and half years.Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation will get a woman mayor from the general category...

Digital speed indicators installed along Pune-Mumbai expressway to alert drivers

5 days ago

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The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), in association with NGO SaveLIFE Foundation, is installing digital speed indicators near the Kamshet tunnel and other locations along the Pune-Mumbai expressway to alert drivers about their speed...

Nashik: 25 women cheated of over Rs 1 crore

5 days ago

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A group of 25 women was allegedly cheated by a fake bank agent to the tune of Rs 1.08 crore on the pretext of getting them a loan...

Traffic rule violation: Cops intensify action

5 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The city traffic police have intensified their drive against errant motorists and are taking action against them either on the spot or with the help of images captured by CCTV cameras and those posted by citizens on Satark Pune application...

Rehabilitation for residents along Ambil Odha

6 days ago

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The civic body will use the financial assistance of Rs300 crore sought from the state government for rehabilitating the flood-affected residents living along the Ambil Odha under a proposed Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme...

Pune: Day temp to rise to 32°C in next few days

6 days ago

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The maximum temperature in the city is expected to go from pleasant to warm during the next few days, an India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecast said on Tuesday...

Court rejects Navlakha's pre-arrest bail plea

6 days ago

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PMPML’s average daily ridership stagnant: Survey

7 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The daily average ridership of the city’s transport utility has not increased despite induction of several new buses, a survey of Parisar, an NGO, revealed...

Pune: Man kills father over land sale, arrested

7 days ago

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A 30-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for bludgeoning his father to death following a dispute over selling a piece of land at Singapur village in Purandar taluka on Friday...

Pune: Thieves steal Rs 11.50L from ATM

7 days ago

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One more unmanned automated teller machine (ATM) in Pimpri Chinchwad area have been targetted by unidentified thieves who cut it with gas cutter and stole Rs 11.50 lakh. The theft happened at Nevale Vasti in Chikhali in the early hours of Sunday...

Send pothole photo, get Rs 50, shame PCB

7 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 11, 2019)..

Pune: Man held for voyeurism in Wanowrie

7 days ago

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The Wanowrie police arrested a 23-year-old man on Saturday for putting a cellphone inside his neighbour’s bathroom...

Pune: Bike-borne men target shops for theft

8 days ago

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Pune: Visibility drops as fog makes an appearance

9 days ago

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Both Shivajinagar and Lohegaon witnessed winter fog on Saturday. Due to the weather condition, visibility dropped to 4km in Shivajinagar and just 200 metres in Lohegaon...

Pune: Forex firm employee robbed of US $5,000

9 days ago

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An employee of a forex firm lodged a police complaint stating that a client attacked him with a chemical spray and robbed his bag containing US$5,000 (Rs3.6 lakh) in an apartment around 2.45pm on Friday...

Maha assembly to be in 'suspended animation'

9 days ago

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results.If the single largest party does not stake claim, it...

Nagpurians want Fadnavis to be CM again

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, a Nagpurian, resigned from his post on Friday as BJP was unable to strike an alliance with Shiv Sena. Nagpurians overwhelmingly want him to become the CM again as they feel otherwise development of the city and Vidarbha would be adversely affected...

Cops cuff duo for theft bid at ATM kiosk

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A timely alert from a private bank helped the Pimpri Chinchwad police arrest two persons for trying to break an unmanned automated teller machine (ATM) at Mhalunge near Chakan in the early hours of Thursday...

Concrete base may free Bhairoba nullah of silt

10 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has proposed to construct a reinforced cement concrete (RCC) base in the Bhairoba nullah to overcome the problem of accumulation of silt, which leads to hindering of the flow of water in the natural stream...

Ex-Maha DGP Arvind Inamdar passes away

10 days ago

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Former director general of police of the state Arvind Inamdar passed away at a private hospital early on on Friday...

Pune: 2 injured as man opens car’s door suddenly

11 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A biker and his fiancée suffered injuries when a man in a stationary car suddenly opened its door for alighting in a housing society on Kondhwa-Bibvewadi Road around 6.30pm on Monday...

Shirdi receives guests from foreign countries

11 days ago

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Poona Club set to hack 78 trees for new builg

11 days ago

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(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on November 7, 2019)..

Sena protesters ransack insurance firm’s office

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

A group of about 50 Shiv Sena workers and supporters ransacked a private insurance company’s office on Mangaldas Road on Wednesday morning, demanding immediate settlement of the claims raised by farmers suffering crop losses because of the unseasonal rain...

Cellphone in recording mode found in washroom

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Two women who went to a restaurant in Hinjewadi on Sunday night discovered a cellphone in the washroom with the video-recording mode turned on...

Leafy greens jump from affordable to pricey

12 days ago

News / Times Of India/ Pune

Leafy green vegetables, poor in supply and quality, are setting new price highs in the markets across the city...