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PUNE: The Supreme Court of India on Monday granted bail to 3 men accused of allegedly tampering with blood samples following the May 2024 Pune Porsche crash that killed 2 young software engineers.A Bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan, observing that A Sood and 2 others, Ashish Mittal and Santosh Gaikwad, already spent…
Jay, Ajit Pawar’s son, with his wife Rutuja and mother Sunetra PUNE: Senior NCP functionaries moved swiftly to fill a political vacuum left by Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar‘s death in a plane crash, urging his wife and Rajya Sabha MP Sunetra Pawar to return to state politics and take charge of the party –…
PUNE: The plane crash on Wednesday that killed deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others has raised questions about aviation weather protocols — particularly the pre-flight weather briefing procedures for chartered aircraft and the visibility conditions during landing.The Learjet 45, which departed from Mumbai and crashed near the Baramati airstrip, was operating as a…
BARAMATI: Police personnel identified the body of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar through his wristwatch and sitting position on the aircraft.Superintendent of police, Pune Rural, Sandeep Singh Gill told TOI, “Our team inspected all the bodies recovered from the crash site and identified the deputy chief minister’s body by studying his wristwatch. The police personnel…
BARAMATI: The clock seemed to stop at 8.44am on Wednesday for Baramatikars. Their favourite son, Ajit Pawar, a stickler for time, died then trying to keep his date with his hometown for the last time.Baramatikars’ hearts had first broken when Ajit Pawar split from Sharad Pawar. Grown up men wept openly at chowks as the…
PUNE: Ajit Pawar was among the rare netas who draw deep respect and are slightly feared by the people. They may not be adored easily and automatically, but once they are, they make their place in people’s esteem. To be sure, Ajit Pawar’s career was shadowed by controversy, but he possessed the political smarts to…
PUNE: Baramati, the Pawar family’s pocket borough, which shaped Ajit Pawar’s rise under the towering influence of his uncle Sharad Pawar, was also the town where the Maharashtra deputy chief minister breathed his last in a plane crash on Wednesday. The irony was stark: the constituency that made Ajit Pawar a political force also became…
(L) Shambhavi Pathak, Ajit Pawae (C), Sumit Kapur (R) PUNE: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others were killed on Wednesday morning when a chartered Learjet 45 crash-landed at Baramati airport, officials said.The victims have been identified as Pawar, Vidip Jadhav, Pinky Mali, Sumit Kapoor and Shambhavi Pathak. CCTV Footage Shows Ajit Pawar…
A plane carrying NCP chief Ajit Pawar crashed while attempting an emergency landing in Maharashtra’s Baramati district on Wednesday morning, as per sources.Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar was on board the aircraft at the time of the incident.He was taken to hospital and is in serious condition.Visuals aired on news channels showed the aircraft’s wreckage…
In a remarkable real estate move, filmmaker Rakesh Roshan has sold a sprawling 1.09-hectare piece of land in Lohegaon Village, Pune, fetching an impressive Rs 15 crore. This marks yet another significant property deal for the Roshan family in 2025, following a string of lucrative transactions by Hrithik Roshan and other relatives across Mumbai. Hrithik…
