“The border dispute has been raging for more than 50 years. Till the Supreme Court gives its verdict, the disputed areas should be placed under Centre’s rule,” Sanjay Raut said.Pune News Highlights: The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Wednesday demanded Union Territory status for Belagavi and other disputed border areas between Karnataka and Maharashtra. The party said that it will join the proposed delegation led by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar to Belagavi to extend support to the Marathi-speaking people living there. On Tuesday, Pawar, speaking to reporters in Mumbai, had given a 24-hour ultimatum to the Karnataka government to stop the attack on vehicles from Maharashtra entering Karnataka or be “prepared to face consequences”.
In retaliation against the attack on vehicles from Maharashtra in Karnataka’s Belagavi, workers from the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Tuesday defaced a few Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation buses that were parked at a parking lot near Pune’s Swargate bus stand. The incident took place after six Maharashtra vehicles were allegedly targeted by Karnataka Rakshana Vedike activists at Hirebagewadi near Belagavi early on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, A fire broke out at an agarbatti (incense stick) manufacturing factory in Pandharkar Nagar, Akurdi on Tuesday morning, officials with PCMC Fire Brigade said. As many as 400 students were vacated from a nearby school after the fire quickly began to intensify. “About 400 students and staff members from Beena English Medium School have been vacated as a precautionary measure,” said a fire officer. The factory is located near a slum and along a railway line.
The new design was unveiled during the Navy Day celebrations at Visakhapatnam on Sunday. (Photo: Twitter/PIB)
The winning team poses outside the hospital. (Express Photo)
A 21-year-old medical student in Pune district’s Baramati town was allegedly robbed, assaulted and stripped by three youths, who also took his nude photos and threatened to make them public, the police said on Wednesday, adding that the accused were arrested within hours of the FIR being lodged.
The incident took place between 7.30 pm and 8.30 pm on December 4 near Baramati Medical College and General Hospital, which is located near the industrial area of Baramati town, 110 km from Pune city.
According to the first information report lodged at the Baramati Taluka police station, the second-year medical student said that on Sunday night, he was walking back to his hostel after shopping at a local mall when he was intercepted by a man on a bike at a secluded location near the hospital’s oxygen generation plant. The man allegedly threatened to harm the student and stole Rs 15,000 from his pocket. Moments later, the FIR says, two more people arrived at the spot on a bike. Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister on Tuesday approved a proposal to form a separate municipal council for Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villages by removing them from the jurisdiction of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).
Representatives of the villages, along with the district collector and the PMC commissioner, attended the meeting called by Eknath Shinde to discuss issues of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi on the insistence of former Sena legislator Vijay Shivtare, who had joined the Shinde faction after the party’s split. The two villages were merged with the PMC in 2017 but the residents had been demanding separation from it since then citing a lack of basic civic amenities despite being made to pay property tax. Read the full report here.
From exhibitions to carol singing, action-packed events are set to begin as Pune prepares for the traditional pre-Christmas extravaganza.
On December 9, the Pune Legions is hosting an evening of singing carols, games, and dancing to ring in Christmas at the Don Bosco Youth Centre, Koregaon Park.
Cantabile music school, which conducts piano lessons and has two choirs, will hold a benefit concert on December 17 at the Bishop’s School to help Saheli Sangh, a community-based organisation that works with female sex workers of Budhwar Peth.
Adding to the festive fervour is the Silver Bells choir that will perform on December 18 at St Vincent’s High School. Read more here.
A 41-year-old man who heads a construction company in the Erandwane area of Pune was allegedly duped of Rs 55 lakh by fraudsters. They approached the builder in 2019 to offer 40 per cent stakes in a T20 cricket tournament in the United States.
The police have booked five people, including a woman, who claimed to be office-bearers of a Mumbai-based entertainment company. Read more.
Demanding Union Territory status for Belagavi and other disputed border areas between Karnataka and Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) said on Wednesday that it will join the proposed delegation led by NCP chief Sharad Pawar to Belagavi to extend support to the Marathi-speaking people living there.
On Tuesday, while speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Pawar had given a 24-hour ultimatum to Karnataka government to stop the attack on vehicles entering from Maharashtra to Karnataka or be “prepared to face consequences”. Read the full report by Manoj Dattatrye More here.
The Pimpri Chinchwad police have arrested three suspects after they fired eight rounds in the air at three different locations as they moved around in a rickshaw Tuesday evening. While no one was injured as the rounds were fired in the air, the back-to-back incidents in these areas did cause panic in the area.
The three men have been identified as Shahrukh Shahnawaz Shaikh, Farukh Shahnawaz Shaikh and Shoaib Shaikh, said the police. Read more.
A 45-year-old man died after sustaining a deep wound on his throat due to a stray nylon manja (a sharp kite string) in Daund town of Pune district on Monday afternoon, the police said. The police launched a search for the people who were flying kites in the area.
The deceased has been identified as Pannalal Yadav, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh and used to reside in the Pasalkar Vasti area of Daund town, located around 90 km from Pune. The government had banned the use of kite strings made of nylon, according to the officials. Read the full report here.
A 3.14 km double-decker viaduct constructed by Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (Maha Metro) in Nagpur has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records.
It is part of a 3-layer structure with the Metro rail at the top, highway flyover at the middle level and the existing road at ground level.It was already registered as the longest double-decker viaduct in the Asia Book of Records and India Book of Records. Read more here.
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Pune Metro on Tuesday successfully carried out a trial run on a 3-km underground stretch from Range Hill car depot to Civil Court interchange station. This step is a significant one towards starting Metro service across the city.
The trial is important from a technical point of view. Currently, 85 per cent work on Pune Metro has been completed while remaining work is going on in full swing. Read the full report here.
Wildlife SOS and the forest department reunited a 45-day-old male leopard cub with its mother. On Saturday night, sugarcane farmers found the cub in Shiroli village under Junnar forest division in Pune district.
They informed forest department officials, who rescued the cub and brought it to the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre in Junnar, operated jointly by Wildlife SOS and the forest department. Since 2009, Wildlife SOS has reunited 100 leopard cubs with their mothers. Read more.
The recruitment rally for selection of Agniveer General Duty candidates for Women Military Police kicked off on Tuesday in the premises of Bombay Engineering Group and Centre at Khadki.
Candidates are being screened in three phases - physicals, medical examination, and written common entrance exam. The candidates clearing the physical and medical fitness tests will then be able to take the written test. The final selection of candidates will be based on merit. The qualifying candidates will be called upon to join the Indian Army in the Corps of Military Police as Agniveers. Read more here.
PCMC Fire Brigade personnel dousing the fire at an Agarbatti (incense stick) manufacturing factory in Pandharkar Nagar, Akurdi in Pune on Tuesday morning. As many as 400 students and staff members from Beena English Medium School have been vacated as a precautionary measure. Express photograph by Rajesh Stephan.
Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune in collaboration with the Zapurza Museum of Arts & Culture is set to organise the ‘Critical Zones’ exhibition in the city on December 10 and 11. The organisers said the exhibition will explore new modes of coexistence among all forms of life. Read More
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In retaliation against the attack on vehicles from Maharashtra in Karnataka’s Belagavi, workers from the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Tuesday defaced a few Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation buses that were parked at a parking lot near Pune’s Swargate bus stand.
The incident took place after six Maharashtra vehicles were allegedly targeted by Karnataka Rakshana Vedike activists at Hirebagewadi near Belagavi early on Tuesday. Read More
A fire broke out at an agarbatti (incense stick) manufacturing factory at Pandharkar Nagar in Pune’s Akurdi on Tuesday morning, fire brigade officials said.
The blaze quickly went out of control as the factory stored a considerable amount of inflammable material. It also led officials of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s (PCMC) fire brigade to evacuate students and staff from a school located nearby. Read More
A day after 11 gram panchayats in Akkalkot taluka of Maharashtra’s Solapur district passed resolutions to merge with Karnataka, some village panchayats have backtracked, saying they now want to stay with Maharashtra.
The change of heart apparently took place after BJP’s Akkalkot MLA Sachin Kalyanshetti held a meeting with the sarpanches of some of the gram panchayats seeking to move. “Except two gram panchayats, none want to merge with Karnataka state,” Kalyanshetti told The Indian Express on Tuesday. Read More
After facing consistent criticism for failing to reduce water leaks in the city despite introducing the ambitious 24X7 water supply project that includes plugging the leakages, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is planning to undertake a survey of housing societies to check the condition of their underground water tanks and recommend repairs if needed.
Contrary to the claims made by the Maharashtra state water resources department that 260 litres of water is consumed per capita everyday in the city as against 140 litres, the PMC said that 40 per cent of the water in the city is lost in leaks.
Ajit Pawar, Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly, has demanded the resignation of the civic body chief if the authorities failed to effectively address the issue of water leaks. Read more.
The menu at Terrasinne on Pune’s FC Road features Indian and world cuisine, besides munchies and desserts, but it is the instruction on the top of every page that indicates that this is a different kind of food business. The restaurant, being managed by people with seven types of disabilities, requests the diner to order using sign language or point at the name of the dish on the page to the server.
A few weeks ago, Terrasinne received an award from former President Ram Nath Kovind and the entire team presented its concept before the National Human Rights Commission in Delhi. Read more.
An interactive course on basic ornithology is set to begin at Pune’s Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) from December 12. The course aims to sensitise participants on diverse subjects like the history of ornithology, bird identification, migration, feeding habits, evolution etc.
Four field visits will be held to introduce participants to various bird habitats and to help them learn techniques for observing birds from a scientific perspective. For details, contact 9579891803 or 9823248053 between 9 am and 9 pm. Read more here.