Top police and NHAI officials had then started working on an action plan to reduce the road mishaps at Navale bridge, which is known to be a major accident prone spot in the city. (Express photo)Pune News Live Updates: In yet another mishap in the Navale bridge area in Narhe, a speeding tanker collided with three other vehicles including two four-wheelers and a tempo traveler van on Saturday. Senior police inspector Shailesh Sankhe of the Sinhagad Road police station confirmed that the mishap had taken place and that no casualties were reported in the incident.
As per the prima-facie information gathered by the cops, a tanker collided with three other vehicles near the Navale bridge around 1.30 pm. All three vehicles were damaged in the incident. Tanker driver fled from the spot after the mishap. A team of Sinhagad road police station, traffic control branch of Pune city police and National Highway Authorities of India (NHAI) rushed to the spot after receiving information about the accident. Process of lodging the offence in this case was initiated.
In other news, Veteran actor Vikram Gokhale passed away on Saturday following multi organ failure. The 77-year-old actor breathed his last at the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Pune, where he had been undergoing treatment since November 5. His remains will be taken to Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir and last rites will be performed at Vaikunth.
74 crore rupees have been approved by Pune Municipal Corporation to widen and improve the BRT(Bus Rapid Transit) route on the old Pune-Mumbai highway, as reported by Loksatta. The old Pune-Mumbai highway connecting Pune to Pimpri Chinchwad experiences heavy flow of traffic on a daily basis. The work of widening hs been taken up after a delay of six years.
A complicated paediatric whole liver transplant, lasting eight hours, was successfully performed on a seven-year-old girl after she received the organ from a 10-year-old boy who died following an accident, a statement from Jupiter Hospital in Pune said. The patient has recovered well and was discharged within two weeks of the liver transplant, Dr Rajendra Patankar, CEO of the hospital, added.
The girl had increasing jaundice starting from six weeks of age, doctors said. A thorough diagnosis and systematic assessment indicated she suffered from a rare congenital liver disease called biliary atresia where there are no bile ducts in the liver from birth. Read more
Any person who has grown up in Pune is bound to have seen a 'Puneri Pati' atleast once if you frequent the old parts of the city, especially the 'peth' area. 'Puneri Pati' is the signboard placed around establishments or residences in the city which instruct the visitors on the code of conduct/ rules to be followed with a heavy dose of sarcasm. Here are some posted by twitter users which are bound to make any passerby smile.
On a Saturday closest to the new moon day every month, a group of people gets together a few kilometres outside Pune and holds a star party. There’s stargazing, astro games, slideshows and telescopic viewing of objects in the sky, such as the moon, planets, nebulae and galaxies. “Nobody sleeps from sunset to sunrise,” says Deepak Joshi, vice-president of Jyotirvidya Parisanstha (JVP), the Pune-based oldest club of amateur astronomers in India. JVP started on August 22, 1944, when World War II was raging, and its history is linked to preserving the Indian science of timekeeping that is thousands of years old. Read more
The Deccan Literature Festival is back with its third edition in Pune.
This year’s festival will take off on November 26 at 11 am followed by the first session where Richa Aniruddh would be in conversation with writer-actor Piyush Mishra, followed by a tete-a-tete with actress Sonali Kulkarni, a session titled ‘Bhai Ek Kavita Havi Aahe’ by Mukta Barve and team about letters of P L Deshpande and Sunita Deshpande, followed by a musical presentation by Padmashree Malini Awasthi. Day One will culminate in a mushaira with poets like Ashok Chakradhar, Farhat Ehsaas, Rajesh Reddy, Irfan Jafri, Monika Singh, Varun Anand, Zubair Ali Tabish, Kunwar Ranjit Chauhan and more.
Pune has recorded the highest increase in real estate prices between the months of July and September, says a report by real estate consultancy firm PropTiger. At 7 per cent, this was the highest such growth noted among the seven cities viz Delhi- NCR, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Bengaluru. The price increase, the report said, was mainly due to the increase in raw material prices like steel, cement etc.
As per the report, prices in Pune in the given time had increased from Rs 5,100-5,300/sq ft recorded last calendar year to the present Rs 5,500-5,700/sq ft. Read more
The Pune city police arrested seven persons from different parts of the country, including a software engineer and a prominent bank employee, for their alleged involvement in cheating the Serum Institute of India (SII) of Rs 1 crore in a case of cyber fraud.
The police have identified the accused as Rajivkumar Shivaji Prasad, Chandrabhushan Anand Singh and Kanhaiya Kumar Sambhu Mahto from Bihar, Ravindra Kumar Patel of Uttar Pradesh, Rabi Kaushalprasad Gupta and Yasir Nazim Khan of Madhya Pradesh and Prasad Satyanarayan Lobudu of Andhra Pradesh. Read more
Three days ahead of the deadline given by the auto rickshaw drivers’ union in Pune to go on an indefinite strike until bike taxis were stopped in the city, officials of the Pune Regional Transport Office have lodged an FIR against the city manager of bike taxi service Rapido.
On Thursday, RTO officials lodged a police complaint against Jagdish Patil, manager of Rapido for Pune city, at the Bundgarden police station.
Patil and other officials of Roppen Transportation Services Private Limited, which owns Rapido, have been booked under Section 418 (for cheating with knowledge that wrongful loss may ensue to person whose interest offender is bound to protect) of the Indian Penal Code, Sections 66, 93, 192 (A), 146, 193 and 197 of the Motor Vehicles Act and 66D of the Information Technology Act. Read More
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KEM Hospital, Pune, launched a metabolic and obesity clinic Thursday in a bid to diagnose metabolic diseases at an early stage and treat them with a holistic approach to reduce the risk of complications in future.
Bariatric surgeon Dr Jayashree Todkar, who will be heading the clinic, said: “We are witnessing a significant surge of the combination of diabetes and obesity. If not treated early, there is a risk of ending up with serious complications which have a significant impact on quality of life, leave alone the financial burden.” Read More
Actor Vikram Gokhle's health is improving, the hospital informed. In a statement, the hospital said Gokhle is Showing slow but steady improvement. He is opening his eyes, moving his limbs, it said. The statement noted that the actor's BP and heartbeats are stable.
The Maharashtra government has paid a compensation of Rs 20.12 crore to 7,909 cattle owners whose cattle died in the recent Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) outbreak, a statement issued by the animal husbandry department said.
Though the disease has been declining in the state, a total of 20,361 infected animals have died to date ever since the outbreak in September, the statement added.
Lumpy Skin Disease is a rapidly spreading infectious disease in livestock but it is curable if treated promptly. Till November 24, the disease has been reported in 3,741 epicentres in 34 districts in the state. Out of the 2,98,285 infected livestock, 2,19,657 livestock have recovered after treatment, the statement said. Read More