Six-member Yemeni family found overstaying in Pune, deported
Pune City police deported a six-member family from Yemen, comprising three adults and three minor children, after they were found overstaying in India. Following a legal battle in a local court as well as the Bombay High Court, officials of the Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) of the city police sent the family back to Yemen on December 24 via the Mumbai International Airport, stated a press release issued by senior police inspector Jagannath Kalaskar of special branch.
The police identified the deported Yemeni nationals as Alkharraz Waled Abdurabu Ateq, 37, his wife Heba Yahya Mohammed Hussen, 33, his brother Shawqi Abdurabu Ateq, 34, and his three minor children.
Pune Inc: Inspired by YouTube popup, fish culture startup now has annual turnover of Rs 85 lakh
When Suraj Apshinge decided to drop out of formal education after Class 12, he was clear that he wanted to do something on his own. “While surfing YouTube, I saw a popup which talked about the introduction of biofloc technology in India. The more I read about this technology, the more I liked it and decided to explore it more,” he said.
In a nutshell, biofloc technology allows the culture of fish in protected tanks inland. Given the strict control the culture allows for feed and other inputs, aquaculture in such tanks helps the harvesting of quality output.
Pune District Collector Rajesh Deshmukh Wednesday held a meeting of the Covid-19 District Task Force in light of the recurrence of the disease in some foreign countries and directed the authorities to prepare the health system in order to deal with the situation if the need arises.
Officials said that currently there are 50 Covid-19 patients in Pune district and on an average, 11 patients are recovering daily.
Read more here https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-district-collector-asks-authorities-to-review-covid-infrastructure-8349493/
Pune-headquartered Indian Army’s Southern Command has said that it has lodged a police complaint against a Rajasthan-based IT company for malpractices in the recruitment process of civilian defence employees.
A press statement from the Southern Command said, “The Indian Army reaffirmed its policy of zero-tolerance for corruption and lodged a complaint against an IT firm for malpractices in recruitment process. In May 2022, the Southern Command HQ had advertised for recruitment of 32 civilian defence employees. To facilitate the smooth processing of application by the candidates, a contract for Information Technology Support was awarded through GeM (Government e-Marketplace) to a Rajasthan-based IT firm.”
Read more here https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/southern-command-complaint-against-rajasthan-it-firm-recruitment-malpractices-8349328/
Hundreds of residents living close to Ordnance Factory, Dehu Road, are worried after the Union Ministry of Defence looks to increase the restricted ‘Red Zone’ area from 10 metres to 1,800 metres from the security wall of the facility that makes military weapons and ammunition.
At a recent meeting, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) officials were told about the defence ministry’s plan to increase the size of the restricted area.
Read more here https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/residents-dehu-road-ordnance-factory-defence-ministry-8349168/
Two private schools located on the outskirts of Maharashtra’s Pune reported thefts of a total of 27 faucets from their campuses during the Christmas holidays, police said. Police have arrested a 21-year-old man and have detained two minors involved in both the cases and have recovered the stolen faucets from them, officials said.
A First Information Report (FIR) in the case has been registered at Lonikand police station based on a complaint lodged by the school authorities.
Read more here https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/two-minors-detained-one-arrested-for-stealing-faucets-from-pune-schools-8348365/
Abhijeet Bichukale, the former Bigg Boss contestant, has claimed Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan might have copied his long-haired look from the reality show for the movie Pathaan.
He said that he noticed social media users drawing comparisons between his hairstyle and that of Khan in Pathan. “They are saying that in Pathaan, Shah Rukh looks like me. This is a positive thing for me,” said Bichukale in an interview in Satara.
Read more here https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/shah-rukh-khan-pathan-bigg-boss-abhijeet-bichukale-look-copy-8348485/
Two unidentified people on a motorcycle shot at a man in the crowded Rameshwar chowk near the Mahatma Phule Mandai in Pune around 8 pm Tuesday, said the police.
The victim was identified as Shekhar Ashok Shinde (36), a resident of Manjari. An offence of murder attempt was lodged at the Faraskhana police station. The police said Shinde was going via Rameshwar chowk in the Mandai area when the two suspects on a motorcycle came near him.
Read more here https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/man-shot-at-in-crowded-pune-market-probe-on-8348590/
Pune has recorded the third-highest price escalation in the real estate sector in the country in 2022, shows a research by ANAROCK, a property consultancy firm. The city has seen the absorption of 64,343 units as against the 35,975 units sold in the calendar year of 2021, it shows.
The year 2022 for the real estate industry was a buoyant year as the Covid-induced slowdown of 2020 and 2021 was finally a thing of the past. The research took into consideration property sales in seven cities – Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Pune, NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai, all of which saw year-on-year growth in property sales.
Read more here https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pune-price-appreciation-real-estate-research-8348768/
The Pune city police have arrested six people for allegedly gang-raping a 15-year-old girl by threatening to circulate her photos.
The police said the crime took place over the last six months. They said one of the accused initially sexually abused the victim at knifepoint and took her photos. The six accused later raped her by threatening to circulate the photos. The girl recently confided in her mother about the abuse she had been facing and the family approached the police. Read more
Pune headquartered Southern Command said that Artillery Centre Nasik Road Camp has welcomed its first batch of Agniveer recruits. "The reporting of these Agniveers will continue from various recruitment offices, as per the schedule till end of December this year and training will commence from January 2023." a tweet from the Command said.
In June this year, the Ministry of Defence had announced its new Agnipath initiative for recruitment of soldiers across the three services. Under this defence recruitment reform, which was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Security, soldiers are being recruited annually. While the initial appointment is for four years, around 25 percent of each batch of Agniveers will be enrolled in the regular cadre of the Armed forces and would be required to serve an engagement period of 15 years.
The Pune Recruiting Zone of the Army has conducted a total of eight recruitment rallies including one rally for Agniveer Women Military Police, which was held in Pune. These eight rallies held since August this year have covered the candidates from the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Union Territories of Dadra, Daman, Diu and Nagar Haveli.
It isn’t just aspirants in the BJP who are keen to contest in the upcoming bypoll to the Kasba Peth Assembly constituency in Maharashtra’s Pune following the death of sitting party legislator Mukta Tilak, but alliance partners of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) too are keen to contest the election.
Mukta, 57, great granddaughter-in-law of freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak, died of cancer on December 22. The former mayor of Pune was elected to the state Legislative Assembly from Kasba Peth, a BJP bastion, in 2019. Read more
The Pune city traffic police Tuesday announced traffic diversions to be enforced for the various activities and gatherings at Koregaon Bhima Jaystambh near Pune to mark the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon on January 1.
The Jaystambh, built by the British government in 1821 in memory of its soldiers who fought against the Peshwas at Koregaon Bhima on January 1, 1818, is situated at the Perne village on the Pune–Ahmednagar highway. Preparations for the event, which attracts a large number of people every year, are in full swing by the Pune district administration and police machinery. Read more
MNS Chief Raj Thackeray will speak in Pune as part of the lecture series at Muktangan Balranjan Kendra near Parvati. Thackeray is in Pune for the last two days and has been chairing meetings of the party's city unit which has been seeing some discontent with its former city chief Vasant More giving mixed signals. Thackeray's political views have seen a sharp turn in the last few months which has left some of his followers confused. It's said that Thackeray is likely to clarify his stands on some of the issues in his talk that has been titled 'Nave Kahitari' (Something novel) as part of the 21st edition of Sahajeevan Vyakhyanmala. The talk is scheduled to take commence at 6.30 pm.
As the delay in procurement of medicines and medical equipment by the state-owned Haffkine Biopharmaceutical Corporation is creating shortages at government hospitals, the Maharashtra government has said it is planning to set up a new corporation for the procurement.
Medical Education Minister Girish Mahajan gave the information in the state Legislative Council on Tuesday while replying to a calling attention motion by Bharatiya Janata Party's Pravin Datke.
“The Haffkine Corporation did not utilise Rs 650 crore out of the budgetary allocation Rs 1,500 crore this year. As a result, many government hospitals are running out of medicines and equipment,” the minister said.
To tide over the situation, the government has authorised hospitals to spend 30 per cent of their budget on the purchase of medicines and equipment against the usual 10 per cent allocation, Mahajan said. (PTI)
Pune City police deported a six-member family from Yemen, comprising three adults and three minor children, after they were found overstaying in India. Following a legal battle in a local court as well as the Bombay High Court, officials of the Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) of the city police sent the family back to Yemen on December 24 via the Mumbai International Airport, stated a press release issued by senior police inspector Jagannath Kalaskar of special branch.
The police identified the deported Yemeni nationals as Alkharraz Waled Abdurabu Ateq, 37, his wife Heba Yahya Mohammed Hussen, 33, his brother Shawqi Abdurabu Ateq, 34, and his three minor children. (Read more)
A 65-year-old farmer, who wanted to elope with a woman, allegedly staged his own ‘accidental death’ in Pune district’s Khed taluka by beheading a 48-year-old labourer and mutilating his body in a rotavator, a piece of farm equipment, a probe by the Pimpri Chinchwad police has revealed.
On Monday night, the police arrested the accused farmer, Kerba Chhaban Thorve (65), a Charholi Khurd resident, on the charges of murdering Ravindra Bhimaji Ghenand (48). (Read more)
The Pune city fire brigade said 100 children of an orphanage in Pune Camp were evacuated to safety after a fire was reported on the ground floor of a four-story building in the early hours of Tuesday. No casualties were reported in the fire, it added.
Fire officials said that around 12.40 am Tuesday, their control room received a call about a fire on the ground floor of the building of Tayyabia Orphanage Trust on East Street in Pune Camp. Fire tenders from the Pune city and Pune Cantonment fire brigades were pressed into action. (Read more)
The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) lack of awareness has made ‘Lokshahi Din’, a monthly public hearing on citizens’ grievances, a mere formality with not many availing the service, alleged a city organisation.
Under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Vivek Velankar of Sajag Nagrik Manch sought information on the number of applications received and resolved in the Lok Shahi over the last one year. “We were shocked by the information provided to us. There were only seven applications received by the municipal commissioner’s office under ‘Lokshahi Din’ in the last 14 months,” he said.
Velankar said the low number of applications does not mean the citizens have no grievances but it signifies they are not aware of how to file their application for ‘Lokshahi Din’. (Read more)
Sairat director Nagraj Manjule took to social media to post a heralding message for Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh’s upcoming Marathi romance Ved. Manjule wished that Riteish’s directorial debut may prove a step ahead for the Marathi film industry.
Often in the Marathi film industry, you can see filmmakers promoting each other’s films and wishing their friends in the industry success with each release. Manjule’s fans, however, after the post, wanted to know when they will be able to watch his next film, since his last release was Sairat in 2016. Read more.
The Pune regional transport authority has named the Bangalore-based firm’s co-founder and legal advisor in an FIR registered against the company for “illegal” operations in the city. The authority had declined Rapido’s request for licence as a ‘bike and autorickshaw aggregator’ earlier.
The FIR was initially filed after autorickshaw unions threatened to launch an agitation against the operation of illegal bike taxis in Pune. Protesters remained unconvinced after the FIR, claiming that only junior officials were booked, that too under “weak” charges. An RTO official has now submitted a supplementary complaint adding the names of the firm’s top officers. Read more here.
“While surfing YouTube, I saw a popup which talked about the introduction of biofloc technology in India. The more I read about this technology, the more I liked it and decided to explore it more,” Suraj Apshinge, founder of The Yuva Company said.
Apshinge’s The Yuva Company has established itself as a reputed player in the field and is getting orders from even outside Maharashtra for the installation of tanks. It has set up 400 tanks across Maharashtra in the past few years.
Biofloc technology allows the culture of fish in protected tanks inland. Given the strict control the culture allows for feed and other inputs, aquaculture in such tanks helps the harvesting of quality output. Read Pune Inc. here.
According to the police, a four-year-old boy was killed while 10 others were injured in Maharashtra when a vehicle, which was carrying sugarcane cutting labourers and their families, turned on its side in Daund taluka of Pune district on Monday morning.
They were headed to a sugarcane field in the trailer around 9.30 am, officials from Yavat police station under Pune Rural jurisdiction said. Read more here.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Tuesday presented a resolution on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute during the state Assembly session. The resolution reiterated the claim on 865 Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka.
It said that the Maharashtra government will stand behind the Marathi people in border areas and will ensure a legal fight in Supreme Court is won to ensure that these areas become part of Maharashtra.
The resolution stated that the Maharashtra assembly condemns the Karnataka administration for oppressing and terrorising the Marathi population and anti-Marathi stand in border areas. Maharashtra government stands with Marathi people from Belgavi, Nipani, Karvar, Bhalki, and Bidar, it stated.
A 13-year-old girl from a town in Pune district was allegedly raped by a businessman from Pune’s Chakan area after he promised to give her an opportunity in the film industry and called her for an ‘audition’, the police officials said.
An FIR in the case was registered at a police station under the Pune Rural Police jurisdiction early on December 24, hours after the girl’s parents approached the police. Read more.
After a gap of almost two years, Pune residents will get a chance to see the India cricket team up close in the city as the India will take on Sri Lanka at Gahunje stadium in a T20 match on January 5.
The Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) will officially open ticket sales for the match from today.
MCA said fans can procure tickets through two options: online via http://www.bookmyshow.com and physical tickets from two outlets in the city – PYC Hindu Gymkhana, off Bhandarkar road, and the box office at MCA’s International Stadium, Gahunje.
Counters at both venues will be open between 10 am and 6 pm.
Pune Metro services will be partially suspended because of signalling work testing on Tuesday and Wednesday from 6 am to 2 pm on the route from Vanaz Metro station to Garware College Metro station.
The service will resume from 2 pm to 8 pm on both dates. Read more.
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