Pune News Highlights: Devendra Fadnavis praises Jaishankar’s ‘firm resolve’, releases Marathi version of Foreign Minister’s book

Pune News Highlights, January 28 2023: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Saturday praised External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for his “strong resolve”. Fadnavis released ‘Bharat Marg’, the Marathi translation of Jaishankar’s book ‘The India Way’ in the presence of the Union minister at an event. The Deputy CM added that India now stands strong in the world and the countries that do not want to live under the pressure of Russia or the USA have reposed a strong faith in the leadership of PM Narendra Modi.

Retesh Kumaarr, Commissioner of Police (Pune City), held a meeting of about 120 representatives of various business groups, chambers of commerce and agriculture, corporate companies and IT firms and have urged them to lodge complaints against troublemakers operating in the guise of Mathadi workers- manual labourers who load and unload trucks – and under the cover of Mathadi labour unions. This comes after the anti-extortion cell of the Pune City police crime branch caught two men – who claimed to be Mathadi workers – red-handed while they were collecting extortion money of Rs 26,000 after they had threatened to kill a person who had won the contract for loading and unloading goods at a mall in Viman Nagar area. Police said the accused did not have any work order, nor were they registered under the Mathadi labour union.

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In the latest murder mystery in Pune, probing into the murders of seven members of a family, the Pune rural police exhumed the bodies of three of the deceased to conduct a second post-mortem, officers said. Between January 18 and 24, seven bodies were fished out of the Bhima river at Pargaon in Pune’s Daund taluka. Five people were arrested in connection with the case. Investigators suspect the accused dumped the bodies of the deceased in the river after their murder using a four-wheeler..