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Two die in collisionTwo persons, including a jeep driver, were killed when their vehicle hit a truck near Kalab village on the Pune-Nashik h...

Two die in collision
Two persons, including a jeep driver, were killed when their vehicle hit a truck near Kalab village on the Pune-Nashik highway on Friday evening. Seven persons travelling in the jeep were injured in the mishap.

According to the rural police, the jeep driver Ashik Ali Nasik Ali Sayyad, a resident of Junnar, was carrying more passengers. His vehicle hit the side portion of a truck coming towards Pune. Sayyad and another passenger Sharad Varhadi died in the mishap.

Drunk driver kills pedestrian
A thirty five-year-old woman pedestrian lost her life on Saturday when she was hit by a speeding jeep near the College of Engineering at Shivajinagar. The driver, who was in an inebriated condition when the mishap took place, has been arrested by the Khadki police.

The mishap occured around 2.30 p.m. when the jeep coming from the Sancheti chowk towards the Engineering College chowk hit the woman, Ranjana Pandurang Thorat, a resident of Newali Vasti at Chikhli in Pimpri-Chinchwad. Datta Narhari Jogdand 45, a resident of Parlivaijnath in Beed district has been arrested for reckless driving.

PMT bus kills youth
A 22-year old youth Azam Jumman Shaikh, a pillion rider on a motorcycle, lost his life, when his vehicle was hit by a PMT bus on Shivaji Road in Kasba Peth on Sunday morning.

The rider Ganesh Shankar Kankare received minor injuries in the mishap which occured around 10.40 am.

The bus was going towards Mahatma Phule mandai. The mishap occured when the bus driver allegedly forced the motorcycle to go off track. Shaikh, a resident of old Modikhana in cantonment area, who received head injuries died instantaneously.

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The police have arrested the bus driver Sureshchandra Abaji Gore, a resident of Nimhan chawl, Pashan.

Jigar flayed
Pune city Congress chief Mohan Joshi has strongly condemned Jigar 2000, a personality development camp organised by the Shiv Udyog Sena SUS. He said the SUS was playing a 8220;cruel joke8221; on the unemployed youths by organising a lecture series.

In a press statement, Joshi has said the alliance government, which had promised jobs to 27 unemployed youths in the state had failed to provide jobs to even 27 youths. He said SUS had collected lakhs of rupees under the name of providing jobs to the youths.

He has appealed Raj Thackeray to declare all the accounts of the SUS since he had collected the money from the people. Joshi has also said that people should know how the Thackeray family could manage to live so luxuriously even if they had no source of income.