MUMBAI: A Pune resident has approached the Bombay High Court against the Jaitapur nuclear power project.
Hemant Patil in his public interest litigation has urged the court to order an inquiry into the environmental impact of the project on villagers, animals and agriculture.
Patil has asked that a court commissioner be appointed to look into the pollution likely to be caused by the project.
PUNE: An autorickshaw driver was arrested on Thursday for allegedly hatching a plot to get his younger brother killed. The murder took place on January 3 at Kadadhe village near Lonavla, about 60 km from here. Continue reading
PUNE: The court of principal district and sessions judge Anant Badar on Tuesday sentenced Popat Dhumal (35) of Bhor a life in prison for murdering his wife Swati on January 15, 2007.
Dhumal had set his wife ablaze after she refused to give him money to buy liquor. Continue reading
PUNE: The sales tax department has lodged complaints with the police against nine dealers for failing to file returns under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, within the stipulated time. The action was initiated recently, and the department has said that similar action will be taken against other defaulters. Continue reading
PUNE: The cyber cell of the Pune police has urged people to stay alert to protect themselves against fake lottery calls and e-mails. Most of these phone calls and e-mails were found to have originated from Pakistan.
The cyber cell has issued a press release to alert the people in view of increasing number of complaints regarding fake lottery calls and e-mails from Pakistan. Continue reading
PUNE: With the arrest of two men, the crime branch of the Pune police claim to have solved 42 cases of chain snatching. The police have recovered 85 tolas of gold worth Rs 24 lakh from Shamsuddin alias Imran Abdul Sayed (30) of Dandekar bridge and Raju Mohan Baingya (29) of Parvati Paytha. The police have also arrested three jewelers who allegedly purchased stolen chains from the suspects. Continue reading
PUNE: The draft of heritage regulations to monitor the city’s heritage structures was prepared by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in 1999, but till date nothing has come of it. Members of the PMC’s Heritage Committee were hoping that these regulations would eventually find a place in the city’s new Development Plan (DP) due in December, but fear that this will not happen. If these heritage regulations do not find a place in the new DP, the entire exercise of listing the heritage structures in the 23 merged villages and upgrading the current list of structures in the core city will be rendered redundant. It is because of the absence of proper regulations that the number of grade II and III structures in Pune has reduced significantly as there is no rule that prohibits owners from pulling them down. Continue reading
PUNE: Crime in the city is 15% higher since 2005 when 11,817 cognizable offences were registered to 13,602 in 2010. However, the all-time high of 14,467 crimes in the five-year period was registered in 2008.
An analysis of crime figures in various cities as brought out in the latest ‘Crime in India’ report for 2010 by the National Crime Records Bureau ( NCRB) has new aspects. In all, 3,68,883 cognizable crimes were registered in 35 cities with Pune accounting for 3.7% of the total crimes. Continue reading
Pune, Nov 24 (IANS): They had a common entry to the world of cartooning, and while one became a legend in the field, the other moved to make a name in politics. Thursday is the day when R.K. Laxman and Bal Thackeray are set to come face to face.
Thackeray will meet Laxman at the latter’s residence here in the afternoon, a family member said. Continue reading
PUNE: Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal commissioner Ashish Sharma has ordered a departmental inquiry on medical officer of health Nagkumar Kunchagi regarding the purchase of Nullahman vehicles by the health department for cleaning up the nullahs. Sharma confirmed that he has ordered an inquiry into the matter. Continue reading
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