'Everyone involved in this transaction must be punished and penalised.'
iPhone-maker Apple on Tuesday announced that it will open a new store in Pune next week. The latest move marks a significant expansion for Apple in the country, offering customers in Pune new ways to explore and purchase Apple products, as well as experience Apple's services in person, the company said.
A major fire broke out at Pune's Koregaon Park Plaza in Pune on Thursday evening.
"It is just that Fadnavis and I have swapped our chairs. Only Ajit Pawar's chair is fixed," said Shinde, who was the CM before the assembly elections with Fadnavis and Pawar as his deputies then.
The pre-sales volume of Godrej Properties (GPL) for third quarter of the financial year 2025 (Q3FY25) declined 6 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) -- down 21 per cent quarter-on-quarter (Q-o-Q) -- to 4.1 million square feet (msf), resulting in a pre-sales value of Rs 5,450 crore, down 5 per cent each Y-o-Y and Q-o-Q. About 77 per cent came from newly launched projects. For 9MFY25, pre-sales were up 48 per cent Y-o-Y to Rs 19,300 crore.
The car, a Porsche, allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers at Kalyani Nagar in Pune city in the early hours of Sunday.
Nationalist Congress Party leader Amol Mitkari said, "It could be a family meeting between the two leaders".
A 24-year-old man has been arrested from Mahad in Raigad district of Maharashtra for allegedly threatening to kill state ministers Chhagan Bhujbal and Dhananjay Munde, both members of the Ajit Pawar camp of Nationalist Congress Party, a Pune police officer said on Tuesday.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday said nothing much happened during his meeting with his uncle and Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in Pune last week.
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American terror suspect David Headley had visited the Osho Ashram located near the German Bakery in Koregaon Park -- where eight people were killed in a terror attack on Saturday -- twice in 2008 and 2009.The area also houses a Jewish prayer house. According to the probe by the National Investigation Agency, Headley had moved to Pune from Goa to conduct a reconnaissance of the area around Koregaon Park.
Its proximity to Chabad house, the Jewish prayer house, in Pune could have been a factor behind the blast. The bakery was only metres away from the Chabad house in Koregaon Park. By setting off a blast at the bakery, terrorists could have well sent a grim message to foreigners as well as Jews
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German Bakery, the eatery that came into focus after a bomb blast that killed 17 patrons and injured over 60 others in 2010, has been formally reopened at the posh Koregaon Park area here with the owners hoping to erase the terrible memory.
Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil reviewed security situation with senior officials on Wednesday night, following the four low-intensity explosions in Pune.
Several computers, laptops, window glasses and furniture were damaged in the vandalism, an official at Koregaon police station said.
Former Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj outplayed Saketh Myneni in straight sets to lift the Men's singles title at the $ 15,000 Solaris ITF Future Tennis Championships in Pune on Saturday.
A court in Pune on Saturday framed charges against Himayat Baig, the main accused in German Bakery blast case, and others. Seventeen persons were killed and over 50 injured in the blast at the German Bakery, a popular eatery in Pune's posh Koregaon Park area, on February 13, 2010.
Yasin Bhatkal, believed to be a relative of Indian Mujahideen founder Riyaz Bhatkal, has been identified by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad as one of the main conspirators of the Pune blast, in which 17 people were killed. Indian Mujahideen is suspected to be behind the blast in Pune's upscale Koregaon Park area, an ATS source said. The ATS, which has submitted a preliminary report on investigations into the terror attack -- the first after the terror siege on Mumbai.
The Maharashtra ATS, which is in charge of the investigation being coordinated with various other agencies including NIA, has not come out with any official word on the progress of investigation or identification of any group responsible for the blast, the first terror attack after the 26/11 Mumbai massacre.
"We have the CCTV footages. We have got some vital information from it," Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh told reporters in Pune. "We received the forensic report last night. It has been established that the presence of RDX, ammonium nitrate and petroleum hydrocarbon oil in it," the Commissioner said. The use of RDX and that too in such a large quantity is an indication that there has been a lot of planning involved in this attack.
One of the suspects, who was nabbed from Kudalwadi area, is believed to have been associated with Indian Mujahideen leader Riyaz Bhatkal during his stay in Pune. The other suspect from Janwadi locality was reportedly associated with Shabbir Gangawali, a cleric linked with Indian Mujahideen.
Meanwhile, Inspector General (Law and Order) Rashmi Shukla informed media persons that it was very premature to say who was behind the terror attack.
Headley, accused of masterminding terror attacks in India at the behest of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, is believed to have visited Pune on a business visa and left for Mumbai later, police sources said
Violence marred the last day of campaigning for the Maharashtra assembly polls in Pune on Sunday when some unknown persons fired at a Shiv Sena candidate who escaped unhurt even as his driver suffered bullet injuries.
Aditi Jindal from Chandigarh was undergoing treatment in the Inlaks and Budhrani hospital, sources added.
A National Security Guard team has collected samples from the site of the blast in Pune that took 11 lives.
Terrorists determined to launch an attack or plant a bomb at Pune's Osho ashram can easily do so because of lax security arrangements, claims a private security marshal handling the security setup at the main gate of the ashram at lane number 1 in Koregaon Park, barely 100 metres from the German Bakery where a powerful bomb explosion on February 13 killed nine people and injured 60 others.
The terror strike at the German bakery in Pune's Koregaon Park locality has rekindled concern for the safety of Israelis and Jews in the country, but community members have said that the bombing will not scare them away.
An Italian women and an Iranian student were among the nine persons killed in the blast in the German Bakery in Pune. All the nine persons killed have been identified, City Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh said, adding 60 people were injured in the blast at the bakery located at the posh Koregaon park area.
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Preliminary investigations being conducted into the Pune blast, which killed 8 people and injured 40 others, have revealed that the improvised explosive device used in the blast was similar to the one used in the Jaipur serial blasts.The IED had been placed in a bag and planted at the German Bakery at Koregaon Park in Pune. It was triggered off when a waiter tried to open the bag.
With one more person succumbing to injuries, the toll in the blast in the German Bakery in Pune has risen to 11, hospital sources said on Wednesday.
The CCTV footage shows that one of the men, who had planted the bomb, was conversing over phone. However, investigators point out that it is too early to come to any conclusion as this fact will have to be cross checked with the waiter, who claimed to have seen the bombers.
A vegetarian cafe in Pune's Koregaon Park, this a no frills place, but one with enough character of its own to make you want to come back for more.
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Worli and Mahalaxmi in Mumbai Metropolitan Region are placed at second and third positions with average housing prices of Rs 41,500 and Rs 40,000 per sq ft, respectively.
Security has been heightened at the Israeli embassy, consulates and other Jewish establishments in several states following intelligence inputs that terror groups like Lashker-e-Tayiba may target them.
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