Pune district

Five held for black marketing of black fungus drug

11:06 pm June 9, 2021

Pune: Five people, including a medical shop owner and a nurse, were arrested for alleged black-marketing of a key drug used in the treatment of mucormycosis or ‘black fungus’ in Pimpri Chinchwad area in Pune district of Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday. The accused were selling a vial of Amphotericin B injection, used in the […]

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Man kills alcoholic brother by pushing him into well

Maha: Man, two minor daughters found dead in well

4:44 pm March 25, 2021

Pune: A 42-year-old man and his two minor daughters were found dead in a well near their farm in Talegaon Dhamdere of Maharashtra’s Pune district, police said on Thursday. The deaths came to light when the deceased man’s brother informed the police on Tuesday afternoon after he found their footwear near the well, an official […]

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Maharashtra: 6,741 new COVID-19 cases in Pune district

11:45 pm March 24, 2021

Pune: Pune district reported 6,741 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking its case count to 4,86,262, a health official said on Wednesday evening. The death toll in the district reached 9,682 with 42 patients succumbing to the infection during this period, he said. Of 6,741 cases, 3,509 were detected in the Pune […]

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Rajasthan records three more Covid deaths, 55 new cases

Pune: UK returnee found to have tested positive for coronavirus

11:17 pm December 25, 2020

Pune: A man who had returned here from the UK in the second week of December has been found to have tested positive for coronavirus, a health official said on Friday. The person’s swab samples will be sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) to check if he has been infected by the new […]

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16-year-old girl raped, another minor molested by ‘friends’

11:44 pm December 17, 2020

Pune: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped and another minor girl molested by their two male ”friends” in Pimpri-Chinchwad in Pune district, police said on Thursday. According to the police, both the accused, who are in their early 20s, with the help of their three friends, kidnapped the girls and confined them after committing the […]

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