The rape and murder of a four-year-old child is not merely a crime but the collapse of the most basic covenant that binds a society together. When such brutality is inflicted upon someone so young, so defenceless, the usual language of law and order feels woefully inadequate. The shocking rape and murder of a four-year-old Pune has rattled Maharashtra. Such was the grief and anger that hundreds of protestors blocked the Mumbai–Bengaluru highway for hours. The child’s body, pl

Mumbai : In what is suspected to be a breach of aviation protocols, a chartered helicopter ferrying Food & Civil Supplies Minister Chhagan Bhujbal from Mumbai to Pune skipped a designated helipad and landed in a vehicle parking lot almost a km away. The shocker happened in Purandar taluka, where Bhujbal was slated to attend a function marking the 200 th birth anniversary of the social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule in his home village Khanwadi. As crowds of bewildered p

As a gas shortage ripples through the city, its vast informal food economy has begun to unravel AI generated image Pune: The global energy shock triggered by disruptions to gas supplies from West Asia has begun to empty commercial LPG cylinders across India. But its effects are being felt most starkly in Pune, known for its student bustle and middle-class industriousness. The crisis has begun to choke Pune’s famed informal food industry as the severe shortage of commercial ga