Pune

Nepal has opened an investigation into an police couple from Pune accused of falsifying photographs to support their claim of summiting Mount Everest this year, an official said Monday.

In early June, Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod told reporters that they had climbed the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest. In doing so, the two 30-year-olds - both police officers from the city of Pune - were thought to have become the first Indian couple to conquer the 29,035-foot-tall Everest together.

Three weeks after being celebrated for being the first couple to reach the Everest summit, Dinesh and Tarakeshwari Rathod have been rudely brought back to earth.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met the 6-year-old girl in Pune who had written to him seeking help for her heart surgery owing to poor financial condition of her family.

Launching the execution of smart city project for 20 cities selected in the first round, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will set the plan rolling today in Pune.

Sanatan Sanstha activists Virendra Tawde and Sarang Akolkar wanted to eliminate rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in 2009 itself, but they dropped the plan due to the Margao bomb blast that took place in the same year, CBI sources allege on Wednesday, citing evidence pieced together by the agency.

The Salma Dam, also known as the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, which was recently inaugurated in Herat province of Afghanistan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and their President Ashraf Ghani, has a Pune connection.

A six-year-old Pune girl suffering from a heart disease wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking financial help which was promptly granted following which she underwent surgery and is now recovering.

Manas Deka, accused by the JNU students leader Kanhaiya Kumar of trying to "strangle" him on board an aircraft in April, on Sunday led a delegation of Assamese youths which greeted BJP president Amit Shah at a function in Pune.

BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday said the first Prime Minister's idea of nation building was based on "discarding" old traditions and replacing them with "imported ideas" unlike Jana Sangh leader Deendayal Upadhyaya who tried to safeguard the "Indian values".

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday said the Indian Air Force (IAF) will give 15 acres of additional land to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the expansion of city-based Lohegaon airport.

A 40-year-old conman posing as a detective was arrested yesterday by the Pune cyber cell for duping a man under the pretext of helping him track his son's movements through a mobile software. Jagnath Chaudhury, a Chandan Nagar-based businessman, had approached the accused, Sagar Ashok Pandit, in March to keep tabs on his college-going son.

After the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), another city-based institute has received a packet containing "explosive" substance, a detonator and a threat letter carrying a warning against inviting JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, police said today.

When a young advertising executive in Pune came face to face with the men who had allegedly dragged her out of a car by her hair and beaten her, they told her, "No girl from our family would wear short clothes and accompany men at 5 in the morning."

"How can you wear such a short dress and roam with two males at such a time? In Pune, this is not allowed." This is what a 22-year-old woman was told by a gang of men, even as morning was breaking. They dragged her out of the car, attacked and threatened her.