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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. Pune City Police busted a flesh trade racket at a spa in Koregaon Park area on Wednesday....

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 Maharashtra government on holding elections to their executive committees. With no directive or advi...

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 significantly in Pune, a trend which traders in the city’s wholesale market say will continue till...

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BJP’s Bharuch MP and tribal leader Mansukh Vasava has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging that the zone be withdrawn to “mitigate the protests” of tribal communities. Vasava’s letter comes on a day when the stat...

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 on their YouTube channel on Dec 23 at 7 pm. “This virtual programme is a true labour of love for al...