Pune

School teacher thrashes student causing him facial paralysis, arrested

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Pune : A teacher was arrested here after he clobbered a 11-year-old student for not completing a school assignment, causing facial paralysis in the boy, police said on Tuesday. The Read More

Rights activists sent to police remand till November 6

Pune (Maharashtra) : A Pune Special Court on Saturday sent human rights activists Vernon S. Gonsalves and Arun T. Ferreira to police custody till November 6 for their involvement in Read More

After Pune court rejects bail, 2 rights activists re-arrested

Pune : A Special Court here rejected the bail plea filed by three human rights and civil liberties activists, accused of involvement in the Elgaar Parishad and the Koregaon-Bhima caste Read More

Army, police probe rape of deaf-mute woman by four soldiers

Pune : Pune Police and the Army have launched a probe into allegations of rape levelled against four soldiers of the Army Medical Corps (AMC) by a deaf-mute 30-year-old woman Read More

#MeToo hits Pune’s Symbiosis International University campus

Pune : After swamping the country’s entertainment and media sectors, the #MeToo forayed into the academic world – at the reputed Symbiosis Centre for Media & Communications (SCMC). Several students Read More

Telugu poet, two others put under house arrest

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Pune : A Pune court on Wednesday put under house arrest three of the five rights activists arrested a day earlier, hours after the Supreme Court orders in this regard.Read More

Five rights activists held in nationwide swoop

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Pune/Hyderabad : Police on Tuesday arrested five human rights activists and alleged Maoist sympathizers, including Left ideologue Varavara Rao, in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima riots in Maharashtra. The raids took Read More

Dabholkar, Gauri Lankesh murders linked, CBI tells court

Pune : In a significant development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday said it has established links between the murders of Pune-based rationalist Narendra Dabholkar and Bengaluru-based journalist Read More

Hackers transfer Rs 94 crore from Pune’s Cosmos Bank

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Pune : Suspected hackers siphoned off Rs 94.42 crore from the Cosmos Cooperative Bank Ltd — the second oldest and second biggest cooperative bank in India — to various foreign Read More

‘Barberic’ penalty: Maharashtra teacher suspended for snipping student’s hair

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Pune : In a shocking incident, a schoolteacher here has been suspended for snipping off a student’s hair in front of the entire class, officials said. The ‘barberic’ incident happened Read More