http://www.samachaar.in Smachaar.in en-us 2010 Samachaar.In Sat, 05 May 2012 10:59:44 GMT Sat, 05 May 2012 10:59:44 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/Mini_Pune_descends_at_Eden_for_SRKDada_grudge_match_127975 Kolkata: Going by the number of spectators wearing Pune Warriors jerseys, it seemed a mini Pune had descended at the Eden Gardens where their favourite team was pitted against the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League Saturday.The n... Sat, 05 May 2012 10:59:44 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/Mumbai_Indians_beat_Pune_Warriors_by_one_run_127932 Pune: Mumbai Indians clinched a one-run victory over Pune Warriors in an Indian Premier League match at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Thursday.Chasing 121, Pune Warriors managed 119 for six in 20 overs.Mithun Manhas' valiant 42 went in vain... Fri, 04 May 2012 04:58:05 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/Pune_Warriors_post_1463_against_Daredevils_127621 Pune: Pune Warriors posted a fighting total of 146 for two in 20 overs against Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Tuesday.Manish Pandey top scored for Pune with 80 off 56 balls while Irfan ... Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:24:50 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/18_kg_gold_looted_from_Pune_office_of_finance_company_127438 Pune: About 18 kg of gold and cash over Rs.6 lakh were looted from a gold finance company's branch in this western Maharashtra city, police said here Wednesday."In a complaint registered by the manager of Manappuram Gold Finance company, h... Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:22:16 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/Scoreboard_Pune_Warriors_vs_Kings_XI_IPL_126951 Pune: The following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter between Pune Warriors and Kings XI Punjab at the newly inaugurated Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Sunday.Pune Warriors:Jesse Ryder run out (Kumar) 8Sourav Gan... Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:54:43 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/Pune_Warriors_stroll_to_22_runs_win_over_Punjab__126950 Pune: Pune Warriors recorded their second successive victory in the Indian Premier League (IPL) beating Kings XI Punjab convincingly by 22 runs at the Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium here Sunday.Electing to bat at the packed Sahara Stadium, Pune War... Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:53:36 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Relegationthreatened_Mumbai_FC_face_Lajong_126768 Pune: Stuck at the bottom of the league standings for quite some time, Mumbai FC has an ardous task of lifting up their game and morale if they hope to save themselves from relegation with only four league matches remaining in football I-League.... Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:55:17 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Pune_rape_murder_convicts_get_death_sentence_126200 Pune: A city court Tuesday awarded death sentences to two men convicted in the 2007 rape and murder of a BPO employee, prosecutors said.Investigating officer Rajendra Patil told journalists after the court verdict that the convicts -- driver... Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:42:51 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Woman_nabbed_for_killing_motherinlaw_126077 Pune: A woman was arrested here for killing her mother-in-law five days ago for objecting to her working as an insurance agent, police said Saturday.Shweta Shelarka, 32, killed her mother-in-law Shobha Laxmikant Shelarka, 62, Monday and then ... Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:32:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/____German_Bakery_blast_Punekars_to_pay_quiet_homage_124512 Pune: Exactly two years after a blast ripped through Pune's popular German Bakery, killing 17 and injuring 64 others, Punekars Monday prepared to pay a silent homage to the victims of the terror strike.  The venue, once bustling with acti... Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:15:17 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/Pune_FC_eager_to_get_on_against_Prayag_United_124460 Pune: Pune, who showed greater character by pulling themselves back from defeat in their last round, will brace for another stiff test when they take on Prayag United in the 20th round of I-League football here Sunday.   While hosts Pune ... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:19:09 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/___Air_India_look_to_consolidate_position_124253 Pune: Air India would be looking to put some distance between them and tenth placed Shillong Lajong when they play HAL Bangalore in the 19th round I-League football clash at the Balewadi Sports Complex Ground here Sunday.   Air India will... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:54:38 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/NDA_cadet_dies_after_heart_attack_123979 Pune: A 19-year-old cadet at the National Defence Academy (NDA) here passed away Saturday morning after suffering a massive heart attack during training a day ago, official sources said.K. Vignesh, hailing from Chennai, was a third term cadet at the... Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:51:27 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/NDA_cadet_dies_after_heart_attack_123975 Pune: A 19-year-old cadet at the National Defence Academy (NDA) here passed away Saturday morning after suffering a massive heart attack during training a day ago, official sources said.K. Vignesh, hailing from Chennai, was a third term cadet at... Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:39:41 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Anna_not_to_campaign_in_pollbound_states_Bedi_123839 Pune: Ailing social activist Anna Hazare won't be campaigning in five poll-bound states as he had planned earlier, his aide Kiran Bedi said Thursday.Bedi, a core Team Anna member, told reporters here that Hazare was recovering in a hospital but... Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:50:01 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/British_cops_meet_slain_Indian_students_kin__123768 Pune: British police officers Monday evening visited the grief-stricken family of 23-year-old Indian student Anuj Bidve, who was shot dead in Manchester a day after Christmas. The officers told the family that the body will be handed to the Indi... Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:24:45 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Anna_advised_a_months_rest_uncertainty_over_poll_plans__123754 Pune: Doctors here have advised Anna Hazare one month's rest, putting a question mark over his plans to campaign against the Congress in the forthcoming assembly polls in five states. The activist, admitted to a hospital with chest congestion, i... Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:49:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/IAF_jet_crashes_near_Pune_pilots_safe_123420 Pune: A frontline Sukhoi jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near this Maharashtra town Tuesday but the two pilots bailed out to safety, an officer said.The crash of the SU-30MKI combat jet occurred around 1.30 p.m. "The pilots are s... Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:02:12 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/CongressNCP_loses_Khadakwasla_assembly_bypoll_122622 Pune: Maharashtra's ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance was Monday defeated in the Khadakwasla assembly by-election. The Bharatiya Janata Party's Bhimrao Tapkir, backed by the Shiv Sena, won over the Congress-NCP's nominee Har... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:46:05 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/__Opposition_shocks_CongressNCP_in_Khadakwasla_bypoll_122619 Pune: Maharashtra's ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was Monday defeated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena combine in the keenly contested Khadakwasla assembly by-election.  The BJP's Bhimrao Tapkir, supported&... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:41:01 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/Mahindra_launches_premium_sports_utility_vehicle_XUV500__122339 Pune: Automobile major Mahindra & Mahindra Thursday launched its premium sports utility vehicle (SUV) -- XUV500 - with an introductory price ranging from Rs.10.8 lakh to Rs.12.88 lakh (ex-showroom price Delhi)."This is our premium offe... Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:15:57 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/___CWG_gold_medallist_wrestler_Harishchandra_Birajdar_dies_121969 Pune: Wrestler Harishchandra Birajdar, who won a gold at the 1970 Commonwealth Games, passed away early Wednesday in a private hospital here after a brief illness, a family friend said. He was 73.  Born in Ramling Mudgad village in Nilang... Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:05:22 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Fire_kills_five_members_of_Pune_family_118600 Pune (Maharashtra), May 6 (IANS) Five members of a family here were charred to death in a midnight fire that engulfed their tenement while they were asleep, police said Friday. One girl had a miraculous escape.The fire broke out just after midni... Fri, 06 May 2011 04:26:04 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/MTV_Roadies_anchors_chased_out_of_Pune_by_ABVP_118208 Pune: Three anchors of an MTV reality show had their faces blackened by activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and were chased out of Pune for using foul language on national television, party officials said here Friday.&quot... Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:00:14 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Rousing_reception_for_Anna_Hazare_in_Pune_117499 Pune: Over 2,000 people accorded a rousing reception to social activist Anna Hazare, who arrived here Monday evening from New Delhi after rallying the whole nation in his crusade against corruption.The huge gathering outside the Pune airport ra... Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:42:29 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/__Elderly_parents_two_sons_found_dead_in_Pune_116900 Pune: In a suspected case of  family  suicide, decomposed bodies of a couple in their 60s and their two sons were found at their home in Bavdhan area of western Pune, police said Thursday.  “The bodies were found in a deco... Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:31:40 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_Two_Shiv_Sena_leaders_booked_for_Pune_violence_114245 Pune: Two days after a Shiv Sena-called shutdown evoked some violence and a partial response in this Maharashtra city, a compliant was Thursday lodged against two of the party's leaders for hatching a conspiracy to create law and order problems, po... Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:11:09 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/__German_Bakery_blast_plot_hatched_in_Colombo_Chargesheet_112861 Pune: The plot to bomb the German Bakery in Pune on the eve of Valentine's Day (Feb 13) was hatched in Colombo in March 2008, according to the charge-sheet filed by the Maharashtra Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad in a local court here. Himayat B... Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:13:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Goa/__Pune_blast_ATS_files_charges_against_Baig_six_others_112720 Pune: The Maharashtra Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) Saturday filed a charge sheet against seven people, including the sole arrested Mirza Himayat Baig, for Pune's German Bakery bomb blast, Baig’s lawyer said.  "The charge... Sat, 04 Dec 2010 11:16:22 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Its_fashion_forward_for_Pune_112507 Pune: It has been a hotspot for education: ," Badal Saboo, its managing director, told IANS. Very soon the second largest city of Maharashtra with a population of over seven million may give competition to metros like Mumbai and Delhi, pop... Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:22:28 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/Over_45_mn_tonne_paddy_procured_in_Punjab_112071 Chandigarh: Over 4.57 million (45.75 lakh) tonnes of paddy has been procured in grain markets across Punjab this season since the procurement process started Oct 1, an official said here Monday.  Over 97 per cent were procured by six gove... Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:47:14 GMT http://samachaar.in/Mumbai/_PuneMumbai_now_linked_by_terror_as_well_111263 Mumbai/Pune: It's not just an expressway that connects Mumbai and Pune. Investigators say the two Maharashtra cities are now strongly linked by a terror trail, and revelations in the German Bakery bombing are the latest pointer in this direction.Se... Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:54:51 GMT http://samachaar.in/Chandigarh/Youth_found_dead_in_Punjab_in_suspected_honour_killing_110570 Chandigarh: A man in his mid-20s has been killed in Punjab's Sangrur district, police said Monday and suspected it to be a case of honour killing.The body of Raja Ram was recovered early Monday by his relatives and the police from railway tracks in... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:36:39 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Pandharpur_pilgrimage_to_be_promoted_as_tourist_attraction_107268 Pune/Mumbai: As part of the golden jubilee of the formation of the state, Maharashtra will carry out a special promotion for the Pandharpur Padayatra (pilgrimage by foot), which attracts over a million devotees in July, an official said Thursday.&q... Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:09:04 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Pune_blast_suspect_gets_bail_106634 Mumbai: Abdul Samad Bhatkal, the prime suspect in the Feb 13 blast in Pune's German Bakery, was Tuesday freed on bail by a court here, officials said.Bhatkal was given the bail against a bond of Rs.25,000 and ordered to deposit his passport with th... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:15:55 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/Modi_asked_Amin_to_join_Pune_bid_Manohar_105869 Mumbai: Indian cricket board president Shashank Manohar Saturday charged Lalit Modi, the suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman, with inviting interim IPL chief Chirayu Amin to join the consortium that made a failed bid for the league's Pun... Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:04:16 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Three_killed_as_van_rams_into_shops_in_Maharashtra_105703 Pune: Three people were killed and nine injured when a municipal garbage van rammed into three shops Thursday in a village near this Maharashtra city, officials said."Of the nine injured, four are critical," said Mohan Gore, Pirangut vill... Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:11:57 GMT http://samachaar.in/Delhi/Live_cartridges_found_in_Delhis_Radisson_3_Italians_held_Lead_105171 Pune/New Delhi: Three Italians were detained Thursday after the recovery of 24 live cartridges from a room in Delhi's Radisson Hotel where they stayed two days ago, police said. Two Indians were also held.While two Italians were detained by Pune po... Thu, 27 May 2010 12:12:26 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Pune_blast_suspect_Bhatkal_sent_to_police_custody_Lead_105040 Mumbai/Pune: A Mumbai court Tuesday remanded Abdul Samad Bhatkal, the prime suspect in the Feb 13 German Bakery bombing in Pune that killed 17 people, to police custody till June 1 in an arms case. Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) said his ar... Tue, 25 May 2010 13:18:03 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Pune_blast_suspect_sent_to_police_custody_till_June_1_105007 Mumbai: A Mumbai court Tuesday remanded Abdul Samad Bhatkal, a suspect in the Pune bombing that killed 17 people Feb 13, to police custody till June 1 in an arms case.Bhatkal, 23, who was caught at Mangalore's Bajpe International Airport in Karnata... Tue, 25 May 2010 09:18:46 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Five_arrested_for_illegal_trading_of_firearms_103865 Ujjain: Police in Madhya Pradesh Tuesday claimed to have busted a gang of criminals involved in illegal trading of firearms with the arrest of five people in Ujjain."On a tip off that a consignment of arms is about to be delivered in Ujjain fr... Tue, 04 May 2010 07:24:33 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Indian_Mujahideen_prime_suspect_in_Pune_blast_103013 Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) is on the verge of a breakthrough in the Feb 13 Pune terror blast and two suspects linked to the Indian Mujahideen (IM) have been identified, Home Minister R.R. Patil said here Thursday.Patil said ... Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:17:34 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/10_killed_in_Pune_accident_Lead_102893 Pune: Ten people travelling in a sports utility vehicle were killed when it hurtled off a highway here after ramming into a truck's rear, police said.Nine people were injured, some seriously, in the accident on the Pune-Satara highway, police offic... Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:10:01 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/10_die_in_Pune_accident_102868 Pune: Ten people were killed and nine injured Monday in an accident on the Pune-Satara highway here, police said.According to police, the sports utility vehicle  was going from Satara to Pune when one of its tyres burst and the vehicle overtur... Mon, 05 Apr 2010 05:46:51 GMT http://samachaar.in/Sports/_Punes_motherdaughter_duo_scale_Australias_highest_peak_102058 Pune: Pune mountaineer Krushnaa Patil and her mother Ranjana scaled the Mount Kosciuszko, the highest peak in Australia Saturday, the family said Monday. Having summitted  the highest mountains in five continents, Krushnaa is now set to scale ... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:05:35 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/One_month_on_cops_blame_people_and_cafe_for_Pune_blast_Lead_101984 Pune: A month after a blast in Pune killed 17 people, city Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh Saturday charged the staff of the German Bakery and its customers with "utter negligence" and said the bag with the bomb had been lying unnotice... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:01:09 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Negligence_of_people_cafe_management_led_to_blast_Pune_police_chief_101972 Pune: A month after the Feb 13 Pune blast, city Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh Saturday charged the management of German Bakery and the people with "utter negligence" and said the bag with the bomb had been lying unnoticed for over 90... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:53:54 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Month_after_Pune_blast_police_still_clueless_101966 Pune: A month after a blast ripped through an upscale eatery in Pune's Koregaon Park killing 17 people, police and investigating agencies are yet to make any significant breakthrough in the case.On Saturday morning, several thousands came out on th... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:21:02 GMT http://samachaar.in/Pune/Interstate_gang_of_vehicle_thieves_busted_five_held_101481 Mohali (Punjab): An inter-state gang of vehicle thieves was busted with the arrest of five people and recovery of five cars, including a SUV, from their possession, police said Saturday.After getting a tip-off, police laid a trap and arrested the fi... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:42:04 GMT http://samachaar.in/Goa/_Pune_blast_toll_rises_to_17_101209 Pune:The toll in the German Bakery blast rose to 17 Friday night with a 23-year-old woman from Ambala succumbing to her injuries, police said.Aditi Jindal died at Pune’s Budhrani Hospital at 9.45 p.m.        ... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:53:16 GMT