A blast was reported at a fireworks factory in Barshi taluka of Solapur district on Sunday afternoon. (Express Photo)Pune News Updates, 01 January 2023: The death toll in the major at a fireworks manufacturing unit in Maharashtra’s Solapur rose to four on Monday with one more person succumbing to burn injuries, police said. Two persons, including the owner of the unit, have been booked on charges of culpable homicide. The exact cause of the fire is being investigated, officers added. Officials from Solapur District Collectorate and Rural Police said the incident took place around 2.30 pm at the fireworks manufacturing which was running from makeshift sheds next to an agricultural field in Shirola village of Barshi taluka in Solapur District.
Huge crowd gathered at the Jaystambh in Pune’s Perne village on the ocassion of the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Koregaon Bhima Sunday amidst heavy police deployment. For the second consecutive year, the state government put up the Mahar Regiment insignia along with flowers and the Tricolour on the ‘Jaystambh’. Nearly 5,000 police personnel have been deployed at the Jaystambh and nearby villages, including Koregaon Bhima and Vadhu Budruk. This year, the Maharashtra government expects over 5 lakh visitors to Jaystambh.
Twenty-seven persons including 20 girl students travelling on a bus were injured after the vehicle veered off the road and landed in a trench in Baramati taluka of Pune Saturday morning. All the injured were shifted to a hospital in Baramati and are receiving treatment, officials said. The accident took place on Baramati Phaltan Road in Pahunewadi village, located around 110 kilometre from Pune City. The private bus was carrying 58 passengers including 49 girl students from a private coaching centre in Kabnoor village under Ichalkaranji taluka of Kolhapur district.
Around 350 resident doctors at the B J Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital in Pune have joined the statewide indefinite strike to press for their demands including better hostels and more senior resident seats.
“There are around 7,000 resident doctors across Maharashtra and we are on an indefinite strike from today,” Dr Avinash Dahiphale, president of the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors, told The Indian Express.
At the medical college, Dr Kiran Ghuge, president of the city unit of the association, said that it had pressed for the demands throughout last year and had several times placed them before the medical education minister and other officials concerned. (Read more)
Pune District Guardian Minister Chandrakant Patil Sunday batted for creating a non-governmental organization (NGO)-type scheme, with the help of doctors, which will be beneficial for needy patients.
“I will say that the doctors giving treatment to needy patients in their budget is definitely a good thing. But you can connect people like us through which can create an NGO-type scheme. This will be apart from the things that the government is already doing and it can benefit needy patients. The doctors and people like us can together think about such an initiative,” Patil said after inaugurating ‘UROKUL’, a 105-bed single speciality hospital for urology, on the Pune-Mumbai Highway in Baner. (Read more)
A two-year-old girl drowned in an uncovered water tank at a concrete pipe manufacturing unit at Jambhulwadi near Pune Saturday, said the police. They booked the owner of the factory on the charges of causing death due to negligence.
Officials from Bharti Vidyapeeth police station said the incident took place around noon at a reinforced cement concrete (RCC) pipe manufacturing unit in the Jambhulwadi area, located around 15 kilometres from Pune city. They identified the deceased as Surabhi Vimalkumar Mohan, whose parents work at the concrete pipe production unit.
Officials said the girl’s parents were working at the factory and she was playing on the campus. When the parents realised the girl was missing, they started searching for her. It later came to light that she had fallen into the tank and drowned. She was rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. (Read more)
Shooting for Ghar Banduk Biryani, co-produced and co-written by Nagraj Manjule, has been wrapped up and the film will now head to the editing table. The multi-lingual film, directed by Hemant Awtade, stars Akash Thosar and Sayaji Shinde apart from Manjule.
Speaking to reporters after the movie’s wrap-up, Manjule shared his thoughts on a range of issues including the boycott trend in the country, the success of South Indian films in recent years, and the taste of the Marathi film audience.
The Sairat director said the film industries in South India have been dubbing their movies in Hindi and sending them to North Indian audiences for decades and it is only recently that they, like Bahubali or Pushpa, have started to see phenomenal successes. (Read more)
A person was arrested and three minors apprehended after they attacked a man with an axe in Pashan amid New Year celebrations, following which his hand got severed from the wrist, Pune police said. The victim was rushed to a hospital soon after and his hand was re-attached by doctors, they added.
Officers identified the victim as Pankaj Tamboli, a 25-year-old student. Besides the three minors who were apprehended, the police also nabbed Gaurav Manwatkar of Tonde Chawl in Sutarwadi. According to Chatushringi police, the four assaulted a group of students near Sai Chowk on the Pashan-Sus Road early on Sunday. (Read more)
Ruling out any reunification of the Shiv Sena, MP Sanjay Raut said Monday that the faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde would disappear into oblivion “after merging with the BJP”.
Raut’s comment came a day after Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena leader and minister Deepak Kesarkar said that if Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray introspected to understand what prompted his MLAs to rebel, it would help decrease the bitterness between the two factions and aid in their unification.
Raut said there was no possibility of the two Shiv Sena factions uniting. “Their 16 MLAs are going to be soon disqualified by the Supreme Court. There has been a delay in getting the verdict. But we are confident that once the hearing in the case starts, the verdict will come soon and the 16 MLAs (of the Shinde Sena) will be disqualified,” he said. Read More
The Swatantra Bharat Party, the political wing of the farmer group Shetkari Sanghatna, has announced it would start an indefinite agitation outside the headquarters of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in Mumbai against its decision to suspend trading in seven agri commodities on stock exchanges.
Anil Ghanwat, president of the party, has urged farmers to participate in the sit-in, which is to start from January 23.
Sebi originally banned trading in chana, wheat, paddy (non-basmati), soybean and its derivatives, mustard seed and its derivatives, crude palm oil and moong till December 2022. Know More
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AS many as 27 people, including 20 girl students, were injured when a bus carrying nearly 58 passengers veered off the road and fell in a trench in Baramati taluka of the Pune district on December 31. The accident took place around 3 am on Baramati-Phaltan road at Pahunewadi village nearly 110 km from the Pune city. The private bus was carrying 58 passengers, including 49 girl students from a private coaching class located at Kabnoor village in Ichalkaranji taluka in Kolhapur district.
The rest nine passengers were staffers of the coaching class and family members of its proprietors. An officer from Malegaon police station (Pune Rural) said the students and others had started their trip on December 26 and had visited various places in Aurangabad, Shani Shingnapur and Shirdi. They were on the return journey to Ichalkaranji from Shirdi on December 31. More Info...
The traffic police in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad have taken action against over 160 people for driving under the influence of alcohol around New Year’s celebrations.
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Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Vijaykumar Magar said, “We will continue to take action against drunk drivers in the coming days.” Continue...
The programme to mark the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Koregaon Bhima at the ‘Jaystambh’ in Perne village of Pune district passed off peacefully on Sunday. ‘Jaystambh’ is a ‘military monument’ erected by the British government in 1821 in memory of its soldiers, who fought against the Peshwas during the Maratha rule at Koregaon Bhima on January 1, 1818.
Later, the British had appointed their soldier Kandojibin Gajoji Jamadar (Malvadkar), who was injured in the battle, as in-charge of the ‘Jaystambh’ on December 13, 1824.
As per a Dalit narrative, a British Army comprising 500 soldiers from the Mahar community defeated a 25,000-strong force of upper caste Peshwas in the battle of Koregaon Bhima. Hundreds of thousands of people, mainly from the Ambedkarite Mahar community, visited the Jaystambh on Sunday to pay tribute to the soldiers, who they believe, fought a war against the alleged casteism of the Peshwas. Chandan Haygunde and Sushant Kulkarni reported
A 25-YEAR-OLD software developer had a narrow escape on Saturday morning when armed robbers attacked him with a sharp weapon, but he did not sustain any injury due to the laptop bag on his back. The suspects fled with a bag of containing his clothes and his mobile phone, police said.
An officer from the Kothrud police station said that the incident took place on Paud Road at 3.45 am on December 31 when the 25-year-old complainant, a software developer for a private company, and walking to his home. According to his complaint, four suspects approached him on motorbikes when he was passing a shopping mall in the area. The suspects started hurling abuses at him and threatened to harm him. Read More
Pune Guardian Minister Chandrakant Patil skipped a visit to Jaystambh in Koregaon Bhima Sunday after facing threats of an ‘ink attack’. Notably, ink was thrown at Patil recently after he made statements that were construed as insulting to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Phule, and Rajarshi Shahu.
“Despite apologising twice, a cowardly attack was made on me by distorting my statements. Those who claimed that an insult was done to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, trampled his constitution under their feet. All of Dr Ambedkar’s agitations were peaceful, without exceptions. Even now a threat has been made that if I visited Koregaon Bhima for a darshan, ink will be thrown at me. To walk on the road shown by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, I am ready to brave bullets,” Patil said in the statement. Read more
Reminiscent of the premiere of their debut film Tujhe Meri Kasam (2003), star couple Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh attended their new Marathi film Ved’s first-day show at a cinema house in Latur Friday (December 30).
In the morning, the couple visited Tulja Bhavani Temple in Tuljapur and then reached Latur, the Deshmukh family’s hometown, and saw the movie along with a housefull audience. Read more
Solapur Collector Milind Shambharkar said those injured in the fireworks factory blast have been hospitalised and the fire has been brought under control.
"We got information about the fire at 3.15 pm and dispatched fire tenders from nearby fire stations including those from Osmanabad and Pandharpur. Those injured have been sent to Rural Hospital, Pangri. The fire has been brought under control," Shambharkar said.
According to a Barshi local, 12-15 labour generally work in the factory unit where the blast was reported.
Three people were killed and three injured in a blast at a fireworks factory in Barshi taluka of Solapur district on Sunday afternoon, the police said, adding that the casualties are likely to increase. Officials from Solapur Rural police said that the blast took place around 2.30 pm at the fireworks manufacturing unit in Shirola village of Barshi taluka in Solapur District.
An officer from Solapur rural control room said, "Three persons are reported dead, three more were injured. The number of casualties can go up. Rescue and relief operation is currently on. Fire brigade and other emergency response entities have reached the spot."
A blast was reported at a firecracker factory in Barshi taluka of Solapur district on Sunday afternoon.
A rescue operation is underway, police officials said, adding that several persons, including workers, are feared injured in the blast.