The city experienced a slightly warm Saturday as day temperatures rose in comparison to the pleasant 29C to 31C range seen for the past few days.

Bishop John Rodrigues, who was the titular bishop of Deulto and Auxiliary of Bombay, was on Saturday appointed as the Bishop of the Diocese of Poona, after the resignation of Bishop Thomas Dabre.

The state's MBA CET started on a rocky note on Saturday. Some students claimed that the first session which began early at 9am saw exam timers set at 180 minutes instead of the stipulated 150, due to which students could not take the entire exam as they were under the false impression that there was time left as per the countdown.

With Covid cases rising since mid-February, the number of active cases in Maharashtra has increased at least 10 times - from 198 on March 1 to 1,956 on Saturday. The active caseload in Mumbai is close to 500 (487).

The crime branch officials arrested a man and are searching for his cousin for cheating a Pune-based real estate businessman's wife (36) of Rs 2 crore under the pretext of handsome returns on her investment in the shares/equity markets.

The MSEDCL has cut around 40,000 connections in the Pune zone in a bid to recover pending dues of over Rs100 crore.

The civic body has set up 12 swab collection centres and formulated a standard operating procedure (SoP) keeping in view the rising Influenza A cases.

New projects will begin to show up across the city over the next 12 months. Pune Municipal Corporation's draft budget for 2023-24 has proposed a flyover at Vishrantwadi Chowk, a river bridge connecting Sangvi and Bopodi and another from Suncity, Sinhagad Road to Karvenagar.

Armed men allegedly attacked and killed the 39-year-old CEO of an Ambad-based industrial unit in the Pathardi Phata area around 8.30pm on Thursday.

The family was travelling to Basavakalyan in neighbouring Karnataka from Udgir mode in Nilanga, sub-inspector P A Garje said.

Diabetic Ankit (name changed on request) thought he was infected with Covid-19 after his cough did not subside with routine medication. Various investigations, however, led to the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).

The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Wednesday arrested a 30-year-old casual worker on the civic body's garbage collection van on the charge of bludgeoning his mother (58) to death, after she insisted that he gave up alcohol.

Civic administrator Vikram Kumar is set to table the draft budget for the financial year 2023-2024 in the municipal corporation on Friday. Citizens expect funds to be allocated to boost public amenities and for development work.

Two scooter-borne men snatched a bag containing Rs47.26 lakh from a tobacco product wholesaler's employee at Azad Maidan Chowk in Nana Peth around 11.30am on Thursday.

Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Thackeray arrived to take part in a meeting of the Marathi Language department, while Fadnavis to attend to supplimentary demands by MLAs in the assembly.

Out of 218 movements approved by IAF from Monday to Friday, airlines have been allotted 195 movements. On Saturday 164 movements out of 218 have been approved. On Sunday out of 247 movements approved by IAF, 208 have been allocated, Pune airport director Santosh Dhoke said.

Preventing cruelty to cattle, inquiring into the complaints related to functioning or day-to-day affairs of bodies that are into managing cattle and penalising (up to Rs 10,000) those breaching rules and regulations framed by it would be the powers of the Go Seva Aayog, a new commission proposed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Sena (Eknath Shinde) government in Maharashtra.

Yukta Rokde, the young mother who had claimed that an unidentified woman had killed her four-month-old daughter, had in fact killed her own baby by slitting her throat with a kitchen knife, said deputy commissioner of police Kiran Kumar Chavan.

An aura of celebration enveloped the city on the occasion of Gudi Padwa, as people celebrated with food, vibrant traditional attires and big purchases on Wednesday.

The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Tuesday arrested a school bus driver on the charge of sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl student on Monday afternoon. The 34-year-old driver had been hired on contract by a private English-medium school in Khed taluka.

The expanding limits of the civic body, combined with an increase in construction activity, led to a significant rise in the demand for water tankers this February, much before summer set in.

RN Ambatkar, a 54-year-old district judge at the additional district court of Ichalkaranji in Kolhapur district, suffered a critical head injury after being hit by a motorcycle during a post-dinner stroll on Yadrav-Jambhli road on Tuesday evening.

A Bhugaon resident speaking over cellphone sitting on an open gym equipment collapsed and died under mysterious circumstances on Monday night at Right Bhusari Colony off Paud Road, police said on Tuesday.

A three-month-old baby was found dead, with her throat slit, in the Dhruvnagar area of Gangapur Road in Nashik on Monday.

The Nashik division of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) will get 12 electric buses (Shivai) in the month of April, informed state transport utility's vice-chairman and managing director Shekhar Channe on Tuesday.

The overcast conditions could return to parts of Marathwada next week with a fresh forecast of rain for 48 hours beginning from March 24.

Ahmednagar Police recently arrested three people involved in a case of robbing a farmer from Sonegaon in Jamkhed taluka of Maharashtra's Ahmednagar.

Maharashtra deputy chief minister and guardian minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday assured to increase the fleet of electric-run city buses by 250, taking the total number to 480.

Three men pelted stones at a PMPML bus ferrying 50 people while quarrelling with a car driver on the service road of Katraj-Dehu Road bypass in Bavdhan and assaulted the transport utility's driver when he confronted them for injuring a woman passenger around 4pm on Sunday.

Madan Kadam and his wife Nita - both former corporators of the Thane Municipal Corporation - were arrested with their two sons after two people were killed and one was injured in a firing incident in the Patan tehsil of Satara district on Sunday night.

Murder accused Aakash Bhosale, who pushed his wife (22) and their daughter (2) out of a train near the Khadki railway station on Saturday morning, was nabbed the same night by police as he reached Sassoon General Hospital with a billhook on finding out that his wife was alive.

A leopard was tranquilised and trapped on Monday morning in the Navin Ahire village near Warje, barely 200 metres from the National Defence Academy's (NDA) Uttamnagar gate. This is the fourth leopard-related incident in Pune district in just the last six days.

A leopard was tranquilised and trapped at Navin Ahire village near Warje on the outskirts of Pune in Maharashtra by a team of forest officials and NGO RESQ volunteers during an operation that lasted for almost four hours on Monday morning after the animal was first sighted around 6.30am.

The Samajwadi Party Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) had filed a writ petition through his advocate Jeet Gandhi claiming that he is a practicing Muslim who is extremely distraught, distressed and affected by the discriminatory and unconstitutional Government Resolution dated 13.12.2022.

The city and rural areas of the district won't receive rain from Monday, officials from the India Meteorological Department said on Sunday.

A 24-year-old IT professional, from Gadchiroli employed with a firm in Hinjewadi, was found dead on Saturday night, hanging from a ceiling fan in her flat at Marunji.

A 32-year-old pregnant woman riding pillion sustained injuries on her hands and legs in a leopard attack in Chandoli, Ambegaon tehsil on the Pune-Nashik highway, about 50km from here on Saturday night.

A man out on bail in a case related to his first wife's murder pushed his second wife and their two-year-old daughter out of the running Pune-Mumbai Pragati Express train near Khadki railway station around 8.30am on Saturday, resulting in the girl's death and critical injury to her mother.

As per a report issued by the divisional commissioner's office, the region received 5.2 mm average rainfall on Saturday and Sunday, which led to losses in Aurangabad (7762.50 ha), Parbhani (2400 ha), Hingoli (5604 ha), Nanded (23554 ha), Beed (11365 ha), Latur (11794 ha).

An 18-year-old junior college student was killed in a leopard attack at Dhuoli village in Khed tehsil, nearly 60km from the city, on Friday.

The Economic Offences Wing of the city police has initiated a probe against the owner of an investment firm on the charge of cheating over 200 people, including several techies, of Rs300 crore promising high returns between August 2020 and November 2022.

Eight passengers of a private luxury bus were injured after it fell about 15 feet off the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass to a service lane at Bavdhan near Chandni Chowk around 10.30pm on Saturday. The bus was heading to Bengaluru from Mumbai via Pune, police said.

The Bundgarden police on Friday registered an offence under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (MPID) Act based on a complaint lodged by an investor who allegedly lost Rs 36 lakh in the fraud, the official said.

He died on Saturday morning. From one-act plays, to folk dramas, full-length movies, serials, Kulkarni has acted in all formats of the industry, said Kolhapur-based film activist Arjun Nalawade

A 55-year-old industrialist succumbed to stroke due to hypertension on Thursday, after stabbing his wife and son at home in Ashwin Nagar Sector of Ambad. The businessman was identified as Ashish Kaushik, owner of a small-scale insulation tape manufacturing unit. The police have registered a case of accidental death, and also filed an FIR too.