Pune: The MMS depicting purported footage of violence in Assam, which was in circulation in the city for the last few days, was bogus, police said on Thursday. Police also said no untoward incident had taken place in the city after attacks on students from the Northeast on August 8 and 9. "The voice and the narration in the MMS are clearly altered. Now we have confirmed that this MMS...
02:58 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Panic has gripped the people from Northeast in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra as they fear for their safety after many reportedly received anonymous SMSes saying they would be targeted in retaliatory attacks following the communal violence in Assam. The fear-struck students and professionals continued to flee Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra for the second day on Thursday. A day after 6,800 people from the northeast left Bangalore...
05:59 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Pune: Thirteen people were arrested for allegedly beating up Northeastern students in Pune last week. The Pune police met members of the Muslim community urging them to disregard a controversial MMS clip that has been doing the rounds. Police say the clip is doctored and aimed at creating communal tension. A case has been filed against unknown persons for circulating it. Security is being stepped up at colleges in the...
01:04 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Pune: A 37-year-old woman has been arrested by officials of the Market Yard police station for violence against her 45-year-old husband, allegedly for his property. The police said the woman tied her husbands hands with a rope and beat him black and blue, and inflicted burn injuries on him with an iron and deep cuts on his fingers with a kitchen knife. The man was rescued from his home on...
03:21 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Pune: Nine people were arrested on Tuesday in Pune for allegedly assaulting some North Eastern students in the city over the past week. Reports said that students and working professionals from the North East were scared to venture out of their homes and had appealed to the police to provide the protection. The students also formed an association, the police said. The police say that the attacks could be a...
02:40 PM, Aug 14, 2012
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07:18 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Pune: In two separate incidents, two students hailing from the North-East were assaulted with iron rods and sticks on Saturday night in Hadapsar and Kondhwa. In the Hadapsar incident, Premanand Khondram (18), a class XII student of Poona College, who was earlier targeted by some youths near the college on Thursday, was yet again assaulted by five to six unidentified youths. Khondram sustained minor injuries in the attack. I was...
05:37 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Pune: The course of investigation into the serial blasts case was affected due to poor quality of CCTV cameras installed in the various shops on J M Road. Four low-intensity blasts had disrupted life on J M Road on August 1. Much of the CCTV footage, which has been collected from various shops and hotels after the four low-intensity blasts took place on J M Road, is of no use...
04:06 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Actor Rakesh Adiga is getting offers for the roles that are beyond his age. A sensible performance in 'Josh, produced SV Babu and directed by Shivamani has given Rakesh a solid position. And now he is quick to grab roles in Kannada cinema. Rakesh is a lead actor in 'Ayodhyepuram', a controversial film in which he appeared in Sri Rama get up. He will be seen in 'Yaare Koogadali', in...
02:28 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Pune: Former Maharashtra Health Minister and NCP leader Digvijay Khanvilkar died in Pune on Thursday following a heart attack, hospital sources said. Khanvilkar, who was returning from Mumbai on Thursday evening, had taken a halt at Balewadi Sports Complex near the city when he suffered a massive heart attack. His driver rushed him to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead, family sources said. Khanvilkar (60), who hailed from...
01:12 AM, Aug 10, 2012
New Delhi: The probe into the August one multiple blasts in Pune is likely to be handed over to National Investigation Agency (NIA). The Home Ministry is in touch with the Maharashtra government for taking a decision to hand over the Pune blasts case to NIA, which is mandated to probe all terror related cases, official sources said. Maharashtra Police is currently investigating the case but so far it has...
09:21 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Pune: Despite an appeal by the police to not celebrate Dahi Handi on the roads in view of last weeks serial blasts on JM Road and the safety concerns springing from the incident, mandals organising the festival in the city are reluctant to make a change in their plans. The mandals claim they will hold the celebrations under CCTV surveillance and with all necessary safety measures in place to make...
03:22 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Pune: A few days before the serial blasts in the city on August 1, the Disaster Management Cell of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had warned in a report that there was a big terrorism threat in the Ghole Road civic ward, which includes Deccan and JM Road areas. The report had also suggested some guidelines to avoid a terror attack. As a response to the German Bakery blast of...
05:14 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Pune: The Forensic Sciences Laboratory is likely to come out with its report on the Pune blasts on Wednesday. Earlier reports said that ammonium nitrate was used in the explosives. Four low intensity explosives had rocked Jangli Maharaj road in Pune on August 1 while one was partially detonated and another one was found live and later defused. Official sources privy to the investigations said that ammonium nitrate, which has...
09:20 AM, Aug 08, 2012
Pune: Commuters are currently dubbing the Pragati Express a slow train after it began passing through Panvel, thereby involving a different route and two additional stops than earlier. They now say that it has lost its Superfast status as the train arrives 15 to 30 minutes late everyday, which is creating problems for daily commuters. The Pune railway division had decided to re-route the express on an experimental basis, following...
03:28 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Pune: On the backdrop of four low-intensity serial bomb blasts in the city last week, sources in the Bomb Disposal and Detection Squad (BDDS) claim that they have all other equipment for just such a situation, but are lacking the most crucial requirement " state of art bomb suits. The BDDS currently has only one bomb suit, which sources claim is heavy, bulky and difficult for the wearer to manoeuvre...
02:55 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Melbourne: Australian police have announced a reward of over $100,000 on an Indian man who killed a student in Melbourne almost four years ago before fleeing the country. Puneet Puneet was a 19-year-old learner-driver when he lost control and hit students Dean Hofstee and Clancy Cloker who were walking along City Road in Southbank in October, 2008. Hofstee, 19, was killed instantly while Cloker suffered critical injuries. Both were students...
10:55 AM, Aug 07, 2012
Pune: The Pune railway division recently changed the local train schedule and increased the frequency of services on the city-Lonavla route on an experimental basis for three months, but commuters are complaining that office, school and college timings were not taken into consideration in the new timetable. Commuters say they are unhappy about the two-hour gap between two Lonavla-city local trains in the morning peak hours. After the 9.35 am...
05:42 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Pune: Maharashtra government on Sunday sanctioned Rs 30 crore to Pune for purchasing crime preventive equipments, including closed circuit televisions (CCTVs), days after serial blasts rocked the heart of the city. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Pune's guardian minister Ajit Pawar sanctioned the amount and asked city's Police Commissioner Gulabrao Pol to complete the purchasing process of the equipments. Reviewing the investigations into the low-intensity serial blasts that rocked Pune's...
04:26 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid revealed that the Lokpal Bill will be a reality long before the Parliament elections in 2014. While speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate, Khurshid said that the moment the Select Committee report comes, will then the government will be be able to say now the final, the last mile is to be reached. Below is the full transcript of the interview: Karan Thapar: Hello...
08:43 PM, Aug 05, 2012
