Industrialist Rahul Bajaj was laid to rest with full state honours on Sunday. (Express photo by Ashish Kale)Pune News Live: The last rites of former Bajaj Group chairman, Rahul Bajaj, were performed in Pune on Sunday with state honours. Representatives of India Inc, politicians and common people bidding a final adieu to the veteran industrialist were present to bid farewell to the automobile tycoon. The chairman emeritus of Bajaj Auto, who was ailing for some time, had died on Saturday afternoon at 83.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra on Sunday reported 3,502 new coronavirus positive cases, over 850 less than the day ago, and 17 deaths. The state also reported 218 Omicron variant cases, of which 30 were in Pune city and 14 in Pune rural. The Pune division reported 932 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
On the weather front, Pune saw the minimum temperature drop to 13.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday and this fluctuate between 13 degrees Celsius and 15 degrees Celsius till February 19, the IMD’s forecast said.
Pune's KEM Hospital Research Centre and PRERNA (Platform for research excellence related to national aims) will conduct an online science meeting on anaemia during pregnancy and childhood from February 14 to 16, 2022. Anaemia is a major public health issue globally and in India despite numerous health programmes organised across the country over decades.
The meeting aims to identify and prioritise research areas in iron deficiency anaemia during pregnancy and childhood and to develop research proposals on the same in collaboration with national and international partners. It will have presentations and discussions on various topics related to the subject by national and international experts.
Dr Angela de Silva, from the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for South-East Asia, will speak on the ‘Impact of iron deficiency during pregnancy and childhood – low to middle-income countries’, while Prof Molly Jacob from CMC, Vellore, will address the topic of challenges in the diagnosis of true iron deficiency.
Pune recorded 13.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday and this will rise and fluctuate between 13 degrees Celsius and 15 degrees Celsius till February 19, the IMD’s forecast said.
The minimum temperatures recorded in other places on Sunday were Jalgaon (10 degrees Celsius), Nagpur (10.4 degrees Celsius), Malegaon (11 degrees Celsius), Nashik (11.7 degrees Celsius), Satara (14.7 degrees Celsius) and Aurangabad (12 degrees Celsius).
Maharashtra this week will remain free from cold conditions as night temperatures are set to rise, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said.
For a week now, minimum temperatures have not only risen over 10 degrees Celsius but have started to remain on the higher side of normal for this time of year.
Since the early hours of Sunday, all roads in the industrial city of Pimpri-Chinchwad seemed to lead to one destination — the Bajaj Auto plant at Akurdi area. It was here that Rahul Bajaj’s body was laid for people to pay their respects.
And they all came. Industrialists and workers. Politicians and commoners. Many remembered a man with the conviction to take on the powers that be. Others talked of a boss who always felt like an ‘aapla manoos’ (our man).
At 5.30 pm, the titan of Indian industry was cremated with full state honours in Pune. His sons, Rajiv and Sanjiv Bajaj, performed the last rites.
The Pune city police have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly attacking a 35-year-old woman, a sex worker, with a blade following a dispute over money.
The accused has been identified as Rajappa Sidhlingappa, a resident of Wadarwadi. As per her complaint to the police, around 9 pm on February 11 (Friday), the accused went to the red-light area of Budhwar Peth and approached her for sex.
The complainant and the accused got into an argument over the money to be paid for the service and she refused to go with him, said the police. The accused got angry and attacked her with a shaving blade, severely injuring her below the chest, added the police.
The Pune Rural police said that they have arrested four men from Ratnagiri district for allegedly murdering and throwing a newborn baby in Tamhini Ghat area on February 5. The 27-year-old mother of the newborn had approached the police on February 11 after which the probe was launched.
An FIR in this regard has been registered at Paud police station under Pune Rural jurisdiction. The woman (27), who currently lives in Mulshi Taluka of Pune district, had given birth to a baby boy on January 30 from her relationship with a 27-year-old man from Ratnagiri district.
The police probe has now revealed that in the early hours of February 5, the man, his brother and two more accomplices forcefully took the mother-baby duo to a secluded area in Tamhini Ghat in a car. They took the kid with them and returned after a while without him.