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Pune news: Flesh trade racket busted at Koregaon Park spa; 1 arrested for kidnap and rape of 27-year-old woman Pune news: Flesh trade racket busted at Koregaon Park spa; 1 arrested for ‘kidnap and rape of 27-year-old woman’ Pune news: Pretending to be a cop, hospital security guard molests patient; arrested December 24, 2020 8:23:31 pm One person was arrested and two more booked for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 27-year-old woman, the daughter of a policeman. ...

Non-implementation of new rules delays elections to Pune housing societies While most societies hold elections unopposed, the delay in formation of elected executive committees has left many of them grappling with legal problems. December 24, 2020 5:53:52 pm Majority of the societies have seen elections held unopposed but politics does play its part in some. Over 40 per cent of the 18,000 cooperative housing societies in Pune are awaiting directives from the ...

Drop in vegetable prices to continue till end of January; here’s why The drop comes after two continuous months of high vegetable prices as the harvest-ready crop was severely damaged due to the heavy rains in September and October. December 23, 2020 2:17:33 pm At Gultekdi vegetable market in Pune. (Express File Photo/Pavan Khengre) A good harvest of vegetables across Maharashtra and neighbouring Karnataka has seen prices of almost all vegetables come down ...

Sardar Patel Statue of Unity. (Express Photo) Even as close to 122 villages on the other side of the Statue of Unity across the River Narmada are on the edge after the local district administration initiated a process to include the area under the eco-sensitive zone as per a notification of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), BJP’s Bharuch MP and tribal leader Mansukh Vasava has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging that the zone be withdrawn ...

A Pune mall is decked up for Christmas. (Express photo: Pavan Khengre) To bring some much-needed Christmas cheer as Pune goes under another night curfew, the city’s popular choir group and music academies have prepared virtual programmes, which begin this evening. “We could all use the joy and magic of music, especially during this season,” said organisers at The Silver Bells. The holiday choir will present ‘Three Glimpses of Christmas’, a programme that will be streamed o...

Maharashtra: Maximum 108 calls from Mumbai, Pune; majority of them Covid-related Pune and Mumbai had made the maximum calls for 108 ambulances from March till November this year, Dr Dnyaneshwar Shelke, Chief Operating Officer, MEMS told The Indian Express. Updated: December 23, 2020 11:11:17 am After Mumbai, the highest number of calls for assisting Covid-19 emergencies were from Chandrapur (29,666), Solapur (21,328), Yavatmal (20,308) and Ahmednagar (19,464). (Express ...

Farmers protest in Surat. (Express Photo by Hanif Malek) Backing the ongoing nationwide protest by farmers’ union against the three farm laws, Kehdut Sangharsh Samithi, comprising 23 farmers’ association of Gujarat, sat on a one-day token protest at Surat on Wednesday. The association also released a pamphlet depicting the losses to the farmers and the common man due to the three laws. Congress leader Dhiru Gajera, Gujarat Khedut Samaj president Jayesh Patel, its south Gujarat unit presiden...

Pimpri-Chinchwad civic blacklists 18 contractors over bogus bank guarantee, FDRs A contractor who bags a civic contract after going through the normal tendering process has to submit bank guarantees and fixed deposit receipts to prove that he or she had the financial strength to carry out the project. Updated: December 22, 2020 6:42:16 pm Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (File) The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has launched a probe in the alle...

– Stay updated with the latest Pune news. Follow Express Pune on Twitter here and on Facebook here. You can also join our Express Pune Telegram channel here. ZP CEO Ayush Prasad said they too are urging fliers who have returned from European and Middle East countries to report to the administration for institutional quarantine. Supporting night curfew, Prasad said, “The government has moved swiftly in the wake of the rapid spread of the new strain of virus in the UK. The imposition of night...

GPO staffers, who see the installations every day while entering and leaving their workplace, discovered that several fibre statues at the installations were vandalised a few days ago with mirrors broken, hands of statues mutilated and thrown away. When asked, the Bundgarden Police said it was not aware of the incidence. “Since you have brought it to our notice, we shall find out what has happened,” said Nagraj Birasdar, Police Sub-Inspector in-charge of Council Hall Police Chowki under Bun...