Atikh is Senior Correspondent with The Indian Express' Pune bureau and reports on local issues, politics, governance and cinema. He tweets @ThePikaro
June 11, 2013 02:26 IST
Delayed bus departures on Pune-Mumbai route a norm
Tue, Jun 11, 2013June 09, 2013 03:02 IST
Forty-eight since a woman and her one-and-a-half-year-old baby daughter were swept away by rainwater gushing down the hills near the new Katraj tunnel on the Pune-Satara Highway
Sun, Jun 09, 2013June 02, 2013 02:33 IST
The Pune Municipal Corporation has decided to probe the allegations against wife of Deputy Municipal Commissioner Ramesh Shelar of evading property tax on 13 flats,allegedly owned by her.
Sun, Jun 02, 2013May 25, 2013 02:00 IST
2010 Lohegaon murder case: Bhukan held guilty of murdering Vaishali Kadam,court awards two life terms.
Sat, May 25, 2013
May 24, 2013 01:52 IST
Over a thousand commuters who park their two-wheelers at the parking space outside Shivajinagar railway station are cheated everyday.
Fri, May 24, 2013May 23, 2013 04:35 IST
For former President Pratibha Patil,the long wait for a retirement home is finally over.
Thu, May 23, 2013May 23, 2013 02:23 IST
Former Presidents long wait for retirement home ends at Raigad Bungalow; she took possession of house on May 20.
Thu, May 23, 2013
May 22, 2013 02:17 IST
Railway Ministry officials seem to think that providing information related to retirement norms for sniffer dogs working with the railway police or availability of kennels for the canines would be detrimental to security,sovereignty and integrity of the nation.
Wed, May 22, 2013
May 19, 2013 01:13 IST
Civic bodies to also take the hit; Sena MP says traders would approach NCP chief Sharad Pawar.
Sun, May 19, 2013May 14, 2013 05:11 IST
Governments gross negligence comes under High Court scanner.
Tue, May 14, 2013
April 18, 2013 01:34 IST
A new rule,governing Tatkal bookings at Pune railway station being implemented from Monday has irked many railway passengers who found themselves caught on the wrong foot.
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
April 15, 2013 01:26 IST
First major terror attack at Pune killed 17,injured 64 on Feb 13,2010.
Mon, Apr 15, 2013
April 15, 2013 00:30 IST
First major terror attack in Pune killed 17,injured 64 on February 13,2010
Mon, Apr 15, 2013April 09, 2013 06:21 IST
While awarding capital punishment to state transport driver Santosh Mane for killing nine persons and injuring 37,the additional sessions judge held that the case clearly fell under the rarest of the rare crime cases,given the manner in which it was committed and its impact on the society.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014April 09, 2013 06:14 IST
DESCRIBING him as a remorseless killer and a heinous criminal whose act was a blot on humanity,a Pune court Monday sentenced Maharashtra state transport bus driver Santosh Maruti Mane to death for killing nine people in the city in a bizarre bus rampage last year.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014
April 09, 2013 03:29 IST
Says that anything less than death would undermine the law.
Tue, Apr 09, 2013
April 09, 2013 03:17 IST
Lawyers defending Mane had pleaded that he had committed the act in a fit of insanity
Tue, Apr 09, 2013
April 08, 2013 22:11 IST
The injured have been permanently impaired and will live in agony for rest of their lives.
Mon, Apr 08, 2013April 08, 2013 01:56 IST
A bench of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has ordered the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) to pay Rs 7 lakh as compensation to a 23-year-old girl who suffered 40 per cent permanent disability in an accident in 2009.
Mon, Apr 08, 2013April 05, 2013 02:13 IST
The court,however,was of the view that his motive was to teach his seniors at Swargate depot a lesson for not paying heed to his request of changing his night-out duty for January 25 and 26.
Fri, Apr 05, 2013April 04, 2013 05:12 IST
Santosh Mane,the state transport driver who went berserk on city roads,killing nine persons and injuring 37 others during his infamous devil ride on on January 25,2012,was held guilty of murder by a district judge on Wednesday.
Wed, Apr 16, 2014
April 04, 2013 01:50 IST
Sessions Court: Judge says there is no evidence of him having unsound mind
Thu, Apr 04, 2013April 04, 2013 01:42 IST
Coming down heavily on Solapur-based psychiatrist Dr Dileep Burte,who diagnosed Mane as a patient of mania and claimed to have treated him between February 19,2010,and September 3,2011,the court said that during the course of this trial he has been exposed as a lie-teller who stepped in the dock on the plea of the accused and falsified records to help a criminal.
Thu, Apr 04, 2013April 04, 2013 01:42 IST
Coming down heavily on Solapur-based psychiatrist Dr Dileep Burte,who diagnosed Mane as a patient of mania and claimed to have treated him between February 19,2010,and September 3,2011,the court said that during the course of this trial he has been exposed as a lie-teller who stepped in the dock on the plea of the accused and falsified records to help a criminal.
Thu, Apr 04, 2013
March 19, 2013 03:35 IST
AAP convenor has met Anna and invited him to attend his indefinite fast starting March 23.
Tue, Mar 19, 2013

