Pune

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today announced that a team of Airports Authority of India has given final approval to a proposed site for the Pune International Airport in Purandar tehsil of the district.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said his ministry was ready to develop a 'dry port' in Pune, which will be connected to Jawaharlal Nehru Port via rail link to reduce the logistical cost for the local industry.

A 55-year-old woman from Pune was denied service at a well-known spa as she has vitiligo, a non-contagious condition that leads to white patches on skin.

To ease the movement of traffic on the busy Mumbai-Pune Expressway, Maharashtra Traffic police have introduced the concept of 'Golden Hours', under which multi-axle vehicles and containers will be barred from plying for a few hours on specific days.

A 50-year-old police officer, knocked down by two-wheeler riders while on duty on Sunday, has died during the treatment.

Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL) and Global Compact Network India (GCNI) together announced signing of a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on July 1st, 2016 to prepare a framework of Governance for Pune Smart city through compliance and procurement management as well as Public Private Partnership Module (PPP) to develop Pune as a world class city under the Smart Cities Mission.

Four people were killed when their car rammed into a trailer on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway near Lonavala in the early hours of the morning today.

A circus elephant suddenly started running around before being brought back under control after about 3 hours. The incident took place in Bhosari.

A Class 12 student was stabbed to death by unidentified persons at a college in Talegaon near here on Friday morning.

A Sri Lankan national, who was allegedly a member of LTTE, was detained by immigration officials at the Pune Airport today while he was about to board a flight to Germany using a fake Indian passport.

A court in Pune on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for murdering his mother, wife and two-year-old daughter in 2012 in "cold blood" over his illicit relationship with an office colleague.

Nepal has imposed a 10-year mountaineering ban on a Pune couple who faked photographs to show them at the top of Mount Everest.

A spy camera, six mobile phones and two vials of a muscle relaxant have been found by police from the residences and a poultry farm of Santosh Pol, dubbed as 'Dr Death', who is being probed for his alleged role of murders of at least six persons between 2003 and 2016 in Satara district.

In a widely-shared video, workers at a shop in Maharashtra's Pune are publicly humiliated and forced to do sit-ups, allegedly for not donating money for a Ganesha festival.

The Central Railway (CR) has given its in-principle approval to the proposed Pune Metro Rail Project which was necessary as portion of the metro project passes through the railway land in the city.