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TOI : PUNE: The principal of Genba Sopanrao Moze Trust’s (GSMT) Arts, Science and Commerce College at Wadmukhwadi, Bhosari, and three other exam officials, including an external supervisor assigned by the University of Pune (UoP), were detained by the city police on Sunday for their alleged complicity in the first-year B.Com paper leak.

On Saturday, the UoP had to put off (till April 10) the final exam of first-year B.Com optional papers of Maths and Statistics and Computer Concepts and Programming — after the city police on Friday night cracked a racket involved in leaking these papers. Six students were arrested from Model Colony and Sant Tukaramnagar locations and a hunt was launched for Chandan, the key suspect.

Apart from detaining the principal and three others, the police also recovered the ‘missing’ bunch of question papers, which was part of the 10 sealed bunches given by the UoP to the GSMT college on the eve of the exam that was to be held on Saturday. An intense day-long search at the college premises, in the presence of the UoP confidential section officials, resulted in the recovery.

Vice chancellor of UoP Narendra Jadhav said that the seal of the recovered bunch was found to tampered with. He said, the college had initially denied before university officials that it received 10 sealed bunches from the UoP and kept insisting that it got only nine.

However, the UoP had an acknowledgement signed by the college officials, about the receipt of 10 bunches. “The recovery of the missing bunch established beyond doubt the source of leak considering that the all bunches at other centres and at the UoP were accounted for,” Jadhav said.

The V-C emphasised that the entire paper leak episode happened from the college and not from the UoP campus. “The university, in fact, played a proactive role in…More

TOI : PUNE: Ten persons were killed and five others injured when the jeep in which they were travelling plunged into a deep gorge at Varandha ghat in Bhor taluka, about 70 kms from Pune, early on Sunday.

Some of the victims were from Shirgaon in Bhor taluka of Pune district while the rest were from Pune city.

According to the Raigad police, the packed Mahindra jeep had left Wagholi village in Mahad taluka of Raigad district around 5 am where the victims had gone to attend a cultural programme. The police said the driver was still sleepy and lost control around 6.30 am, plunging the vehicle into the 75 feet deep gorge.

The police got a crane to remove the jeep from the gorge and took the help of villagers to bring up the bodies. The injured were taken to different private hospitals in Mahad and Mumbai while one of them has been admitted to the Sassoon hospital here.

The deceased were identified as jeep-driver Shashikant Dhumal (45), Vishal Dhumal, Chander Umatkar (35), Dhondiba Umatkar (32), Ganpat Pol (28), Ankush Sanas (45), Sunil Pol (34), Chander Pol (45) — all from Shirgaon, and Swapnil Desle (45) and Swapnil Dhondi, both from Pune.

The injured were identified as Hanuman Kondhalkar (40), Ashok Bhalerao (40), Pradeep Sitaram Pol (14), Namdeo Pol (40), Pradeep Jodhe (40) and Krishna Vinchure (35).

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TOI : PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Saturday announced a provision of Rs 25 lakh to help improve the water supply in the Khadki cantonment board (KCB) area.

Talking to reporters, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader in the PMC Anil Bhosale and corporator Shrikant Patil said there had been repeated complains from residents of this area about the supply of contaminated water.

“Drinking water pipelines have not been replaced for the past 20 years. We have decided to replace all the water pipelines here, work for which will start immediately,” said Bhosale.

He alleged that the Congress, which had held power at the PMC for fifteen years, had completely neglected the cantonment area. “We have even had discussions with the KCB officials and asked them to provide an alternate place for the water tank in Khadki,” said Bhosale. He also alleged that the Congress had ruined the city’s image, and now the NCP was trying to rebuild it.

Corporator Shrikant Patil said that people in Khadki were unhappy with the situation. “The replacement of pipelines is a project has been overdue for long,” he said. Print Save EMail Write to Editor Get personalised news s…More

TOI : PUNE: The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) will be widening the road in Nehrunagar area of Pimpri on March 31.

PCMC plans to widen the 12-metre-wide and 150-metre-long Development Plan road near Jyoti English school in ward no 28, Swapnanagari. It will be widened from Dosti bakery to Pimpri-Bhosari main road. The PCMC has appealed the residents, who will be affected in the widening process, to shift their belongings to a safer place. Print Save EMail Write to Editor Get personalised news s…More

TOI : PUNE: Nurses working at government hospitals have deferred their 72-hour-long ‘no work’ strike as chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh assured them that all their demands would be fulfilled in phases.

The strike was to start on March 31 in which some 22,000 nurses, from across the state, would have participated.

“A delegation of nurses met the chief minister on March 27. He promised us that all our demands would be fulfilled in phases and asked us to withdraw the strike,” said Anuradha Athavale, president of Maharashtra Government Nurses Federation (MGNF).

However, Athavale meaningfully added, “We have not withdrawn the strike but just postponed it till our demands are fulfilled.”

“Our attempt was to sensitise the state government and draw their attention to our demands. We have succeeded in that attempt. But now it is to be seen whether they really keep their promise or not,” Athavale added.

“We also had a meeting with the chief secretaries of medical education department and health service department. Both of them took cognisance of our demands, which include adequate clinical paraphernalia at the workplace; unreasonable transfer of the nurses; upgrading nursing education in the state; security at the workplace etc,” she said. The MGNF has called a meeting on April 12 in which the district representatives would take part and decide on the future course of action. Print Save EMail Write to Editor Get personalised news s…More