Pune News

The software engineer allegedly committed suicide by jumping off an eight-story building in Rahatani area near here.

Marathi film producer Atul B Tapkir was found dead at a luxury hotel in Pune on Sunday morning, police said. He was 35. A post on Tapkir's Facebook page indicates he was disturbed over financial loss in filmmaking and a troubled family life. Police had to break open the hotel room where they found Tapkir's body.

Three men found guilty of a 28-year-old software engineer's gang-rape and murder in Pune eight years ago, were sentenced to death today.

The bodies of the four doctors from Solapur who drowned on Sunday were recovered early on Monday morning. The quartet was on the boat taking selfies when it tipped and capsized on Sunday at around 5.30 pm. While one body was recovered later in the evening, the other three were fished out of the water the next morning.

A woman has been arrested for allegedly mowing down five people who were waiting on a road divider, killing two of them, police said today.

A horrific CCTV footage from Pune has captured a speeding car mowing down five persons - two of them children -- who were waiting to cross a road. The impact is so great that two of them get thrown more than 30 feet away. Two others get dragged under the vehicle. Three-year-old Isha Vishwakarma and her mother Pooja Vishwakarma, died on the spot.

The district police on Friday rescued a 4-year-old boy and arrested a man who had allegedly kidnapped him for ransom. Sandip Thokale, the accused, had kidnapped the boy from his school in Chakan in the district on March 24, police said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said if the Sahara Group fails to deposit Rs 5092.6 crore in SEBI-Sahara refund account by April 17 in pursuance of its order, it will be "compelled" to auction its property valued at Rs 39,000 crore at Aamby Valley in Pune.

In a shocking incident that took place in broad daylight on Monday, a 22-year-old MBA student - also the daughter of a sitting BJP MLA - was brutally stabbed multiple times, allegedly by her jilted lover in Pune, after she complained against him to her college management. Two students on campus rushed to her aid and were also injured in the ensuing scuffle, but ultimately managed to save her even the attacker managed to chop of the victim's finger.

A tip-off by a Pune-based wildlife rescuer, that a python was shot at near Aamby Valley City in Mulsi, led a team of the forest department to uncover a bizarre incident. To their utter shock, they found that the security guards and staffers of the township even chopped the snake into pieces using an axe and later buried it near the volleyball ground. Reason: The snake was huge and hence difficult to catch. The guards had even made a video clip of the entire incident.

Eleven people were killed today after a bus carrying pilgrims rammed into a truck on the Pune-Solapur highway, police said.

There are more microbes on mobile phones than on toilet seats. While this has been known for the last few years, for the first time, Pune-based scientists found three new species of microbes from swabs taken from mobile handsets. Overall, the scientists had found more than 500 types of bacteria and nearly 30 types of fungi from 27 handsets.

BJP today captured NCP's Pune bastion, winning a comfortable majority and coming to power in the city for the first time.

Pune registered a voter turnout of 53.55 per cent in the Pune Municipal Corporation election, slightly higher than 2012.

Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha-Metro) has said its ambitious Rs 11,400 crore Pune Metro project will be operational by 2021. "We have completed 35 per cent of topography survey and geo-tech investigation work and remaining job is expected to be completed over the next few months. We hope that first line of Pune Metro will be operational in 2020 and second line by 2021," Maha-Metro Managing Director Brijesh Dixit told news agency PTI in Mumbai.