Pune

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today said it has been chosen as the implementation partner to convert Pune into a smart city.

At least six people have been killed in a fire at a bakery in Maharashtra's Pune.

A man has been arrested from Bengaluru in connection with the murder of 23-year-old Pune techie, Antara Das, who was chased and repeatedly stabbed by her attacker with a sharp weapon barely half a km from her office. She had collapsed on the spot.

A youth who was questioned in connection with brutal murder of a 23-year-old woman IT employee in Pune last week has claimed he was in Bengaluru on the day of the incident.

Nearly 10,000 surveillance cameras will be set up in Pune, under the Centre's Digital India mission, a top company official said.

Reimagine Samuel L Jackson's shocked face at finding a knot of snakes at 40,000 feet above sea level. The Pune police had a similar reaction when they entered a house in Chakan where they discovered over 70 venomous snakes in boxes and gunny bags.

Investigators probing the brutal murder of a 23-year-old woman IT professional in Talawade near Pune on Monday questioned a youth in Bengaluru, after her parents expressed suspicion that he could have been stalking her.

On Friday evening in Pune, techie Antara Das walked out of work after informing that she was not taking the office cab, which was unusual. Moments later, the 23-year-old was seen running on the road, chased by a man looking ready to strike with a sharp weapon.

Chaos and panic ensued at the National Institute of Banking Management (NIBM), Kondhwa, after a male leopard was found trapped in the campus kitchen. A team of seven forest officials rescued the wild animal after four hours.

In a gruesome attack as described by an eyewitness, a 23-year-old software engineer had been stabbed multiple times when she was seen running on a road in Pune on Friday night, possibly to lose her attacker. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead.

Taking potshots at the opposition Congress for performing "bhumipoojan" of Pune Metro on Thursday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said people will never give them an opportunity to perform official foundation stone laying ceremonies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a day's visit to Maharashtra today, where he will lay the foundation stone for the grand memorial of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the metro rail projects in Mumbai and Pune. Prime Minister Modi will land in Mumbai at 11:30 AM and leave for MIDC Patalganga in neighbouring Raigad district where he will inaugurate the newly-built campus of the National Institute of Securities Management - SEBI's new campus. The Prime Minister will then reach Raj Bhavan and later move towards Girgaum Chowpatty for the Shivaji Memorial event.

A Pune man's wedding was solemnized in a Pune hospital ICU where his father was battling death on a ventilator.

Multiple lockers of a Bank of Maharashtra branch in Pune were searched today by the Income Tax Department after a tip off that a private firm might have deposited nearly Rs 10 crores in them, both in new and old currency, post the November 8 announcement of the banning of old 500 and 1,000-rupee notes.

Police seized Rs 67 lakh in cash, of which Rs 62 lakh were in Rs 2,000 denomination notes, from five people who were travelling in a car in Wakad locality near Pune in the small hours on Wednesday. A senior cop attached to Wakad police station said 3,110 notes of Rs 2,000 denomination worth Rs 62.2 lakh and 4,800 notes of Rs 100 worth Rs 4.8 lakh were seized. The seizure come as raids across the country have unearthed large sums of money since the government banned 500 and 1000 rupee notes on November 9.