'The country needs to honour the sacrifice of Karkare and not allow deviant individuals to denigrate him and his memory'
The fire probably started at Mojo's and spread to the adjacent rooftop pub '1 Above', the report said.
Activist Narendra Dabholkar, who was in the forefront of a campaign to persuade Maharashtra government to pass an anti-superstition and black magic bill, was shot dead in Pune on Tuesday morning by unknown assailants.
The SIT was busy with the ongoing probe and did not wish to interrogate Sharma at this stage.
Pathak, the son of retired director general of police and former Pune police commissioner K K Pathak, was arrested on Saturday.
The youth were demanding right to quality education, provision of trained interpreters for deaf students and preventing fraudulent distribution of disability certificates to able-bodied individuals among others.
What could Rasila Raju have done to protect herself?
Sixty-six former bureaucrats in a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind said that the 'polling body's independence, fairness, impartiality and efficiency are perceived to be compromised today'.
Four more persons with suspected links with a Hindu outfit have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 28-year-old IT professional in Pune, police said on Thursday.
A low-intensity blast set off by an IED planted in a motorcycle parked in front of a police station in Pune on Thursday left three injured, including a constable, even as police did not rule out the possibility of involvement of a terror group in the incident.
The 61-year-old former top cop from Mumbai changed professions after listening to his 'inner voice'.
Police have claimed that the probe into the murder of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar is on the "right track". But no concrete clue to the broad daylight slaying seems to have emerged a month after the incident that jolted the progressive social movement in Maharashtra.
A group of retired civil servants also called upon the PM to reach out to the families of the victims in Unnao and Kathua and "seek their forgiveness on behalf of all of us".
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