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Image Used For Representational Image PUNE: A 31-year-old construction worker was arrested on Tuesday night on the charge of bludgeoning his relative to death with an LPG cylinder on Monday night at a workers’ colony of a construction project in Kudale Vasti.The MIDC Bhosari police identified the deceased as Balaji Khandade (29), hailing from Nanded…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only NEW DELHI/MUMBAI/BENGALURU: A severe crunch in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and commercial LPG supplies as disruptions linked to the ongoing conflict in West Asia begin to affect fuel availability across the country.Invoking the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, the Union government on Monday reallocated gas supplies, cutting allocations to fertiliser…
Pune Porsche crash (File photo) PUNE: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to the father of the minor (now an adult) accused in the 2024 Pune Porsche crash that killed software engineers, after 22 months in custody.As per media reports, the case is related to alleged blood sample manipulation.The man is accused of replacing…
PUNE: A model from Pimpri-Chinchwad in Pune district has reconverted to Hinduism, claiming she faced harassment during her marriage to a Muslim businessman. The woman, Sayali Surve, who married a resident of Mira-Bhayandar in 2017 despite opposition from her family, had converted to Islam after the wedding and reportedly changed her name. However, Sayali Surve…
PUNE: The Ambegaon police on Sunday arrested two men and a transgender person for beating, abusing and forcing a truck driver and the cleaner to eat cow dung on Friday early morning.Senior inspector Sharad Zine of Ambegaon police said, “On Sunday afternoon, we registered a suo-motu complaint against the trio and we arrested them”.Zine said,…
PUNE: Alandi Municipal Council (AMC) and women and child welfare officials on Saturday shut down a spiritual education institute after officials found alleged abuse of minor girls and several violations of child protection norms. As many as 47 children, 43 boys and four girls, living in the facility have been relocated to govt-run child-care institutions…
80 students among 111 Pune residents back from Dubai (Uma Kadam/ TOI) PUNE: A total of 111 residents from Pune district, including students stranded in Dubai due to the ongoing US-Israel-Iran military conflict, have safely returned home, the district administration confirmed on Wednesday. Authorities said that 184 residents from Pune were initially stuck in the…
Image Used For Representational Purpose PUNE: The Khadki police on Wednesday arrested a 56-year-old real estate agent for allegedly smothering his wife (53) at their apartment in the Chikhalwadi locality of Khadki around 11pm on Tuesday.According to deputy commissioner of police (zone IV) Chilumula Rajnikanth, the accused had first considered taking his own life before…
Gold prices on Thursday declined in the futures market, amid a fall in spot demand. Gold contracts for April delivery on the Multi-Commodity Exchange fell by Rs 539, or 0.33 per cent, to Rs 1,60,606 per 10 grams, with a business turnover of 647 lots. According to news agency PTI, analysts attributed the fall to…
PUNE: When a croissant became ‘prashant’ it wasn’t just a meme; it was a moment. The trending video of an Indian boy confidently misnaming the French pastry caught fire, and Britannia leaned in, renaming its own croissants ‘prashant’.Across India, mispronunciations of foreign foods are a norm and not an exception. ‘Crêpe’ (krehp) often becomes ‘crape’,…
