Pune: A complaint by a customer alleging a glass pieces being found in a burger at a Burger King outlet here last week is being investigated, a police official said on Monday. “We have registered a complaint by the customer last Saturday (May 18) against Burger King. We are awaiting medical reports from the hospital […]
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Pune government school teacher molests 12 minor girls
Pune: A Pune government school teacher, accused of molesting at least 12 minor girls, has been sent to police custody for three days till Saturday, an official said on Friday. Vikram Shankar Potdar, 42, has been booked under various sections of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSCO) Act and the Indian Penal Code, said […]
Cheating case against Smriti Irani over academic record
Pune: A Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader on Tuesday filed a complaint of cheating against Union Minister Smriti Irani, questioning the differing academic qualifications in her affidavits submitted by her to the Election Commission in the 2004 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In her complaint, MNS’s ex-municipal corporator from Pune, Rupali Patil has accused Irani of […]
I Love Narendra Modi, proclaims Rahul Gandhi
Pune: Congress President Rahul Gandhi virtually brought the house down on Friday when he said: “I love Narendra Modi.” In a free-wheeling live interaction with over 5,000 college students at the Lakshmi Lawns in Hadapsar suburb here, Gandhi took wide-ranging questions from the gathering, largely pertaining to jobs, education, healthcare and some even personal. Answering a […]
Pulwama terror attack suspect nabbed in Pune
Pune: A suspect in the February 14 Pulwama suicide attack has been arrested here by the Bihar Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) in collaboration with its Maharashtra counterpart, official sources said here on Thursday. Shariyat Anwar-ul-Haq Mandal, 19, of Bajipur in West Bengal’s Nadia district, is accused of procuring a list of postings of Central Reserve Police […]
Pawar faces family push to fight poll, may not relent
Pune: A day after Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar opted out of the Lok Sabha elections, fresh pressures mounted on him to reconsider his decision on Tuesday. This time it was another grand-nephew Rohit Pawar, who publicly appealed to Pawar to enter the electoral fray. Rohit Pawar, son of businessman Rajendra Pawar, penned a […]
Outrage as Maharashtra police lathi-charge deaf-mute youth
Pune (Maharashtra) : The Maharashtra police on Monday brutally caned a large gathering of specially-abled youth, including women, outside the Social Welfare Commissionerate headquarters, sparking outrage. The large group of “hearing-impaired and speech-impaired” youth had gathered from all over Maharashtra for highlighting various demands, including setting up separate schools, colleges and vocational training institutes, for […]
Pune court slams police, orders Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde’s release
Pune (Maharashtra) : In a huge embarrassment for Maharashtra government, a Pune Special Court on Saturday slammed the city police Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) for what it termed as “illegal arrest” of Dalit intellectual Prof Anand Teltumbde, and ordered his immediate release — barely 12 hours after he was arrested at Mumbai airport. Pune Special […]
Pakistan must develop as secular state for talks with India: Army chief
Pune : Amidst the bonhomie over the Kartarpur corridor, Army chief Bipin Rawat on Friday made some political comments saying Pakistan has turned into an “Islamic State” and should become a secular state if India and Pakistan have to “stay together”. Reacting to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s comment on Wednesday that if India takes […]
Koregaon-Bhima case: Digvijay Singh on Pune police radar
Pune : Pune police are likely to question senior Congressman and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh whose name had come up in the ongoing probe into the Koregaon-Bhima case almost three months ago, officials said here on Monday. “We may call or question him in connection with the matter, but there is no […]