The Latest Breaking News from Pune

PUNE: Five people, including three women, from Mira Road in Thane district, travelling by an SUV died when the four-wheeler first hit and then jumped over a median on the Pune-Mumbai highway and crashed into a container truck travelling in the opposite corridor at 8am on Sunday at Shilatane village…

The Matildas' hopes of winning the Women's Asian Cup for a second time are over after a shock 1-0 loss to Korea Republic in Pune.

MUMBAI: The BCCI is likely to hold the forthcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Maharashtra and Gujarat, sources say. “As of now, the Board is mulling organising the league stage in Maharashtra, and the playoffs in Ahmedabad,” revealed a source.

MUMBAI: While state health minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday said Omicron-Covid cases in the state had dipped by almost 50% in the past fortnight, the daily tally rose by 12%. From 24,948 cases on Friday, the daily tally increased to 27,971.

PUNE: Indian tennis players Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Arjun Kadhe will feature in the singles main draw of the Tata Open Maharashtra as they were handed wildcard entries on Saturday.

Tork Motors has launched two e-bikes — the Kratos and Kratos R — for the Indian market. The Kratos is priced at ₹ 1,92,499, while the R version retails for ₹ 2,07,499 (ex-showroom, Pune). FAME-II subs

PUNE: Senior citizens with one or more pre-existing ailments accounted for 60% of Pune’s total 158 Covid deaths from January 1-27, the latest report of the district administration has revealed.

PUNE: “I like to play and eat chocolates,” says Prem, grinning from ear to ear. It’s hard to believe that just 10 days ago, the bubbly four-year-old had overcome severe Covid-linked pneumonia with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that had kept him strapped to an invasive ventilator for 45 days.

PUNE: A majority of hospitals in the city have recorded a gradual drop in Covid admissions in the last 48 hours, raising hopes of the third wave already past its peak here and beginning to slowly ebb now.

PUNE: Physician, author, and de-addiction activist Anil Awachat passed away early on Thursday at his home in Pune. He was 77.

PUNE: The Covid-19 hospitalisation rate stood at 5.7% and the overall weekly positivity rate was 23.82% in the state for the seven-day period from January 20 to 26 — almost the same as the previous week.