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Id marredId celebrations in neighbouring Baramati were marred on Tuesday when a mob, wielding swords, iron rods and sticks, attacked eigh...

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Id marred
Id celebrations in neighbouring Baramati were marred on Tuesday when a mob, wielding swords, iron rods and sticks, attacked eight persons over a dispute regarding the festival date.

Police reinforcements had to be rushed from Pune and Daund. The situation, according to the Pune rural police, was under control.

A series of peace committee meetings were being organised by deputy collector Milind Pathak, municipal council chairman Jawahar Shah and sub-divisional police officer Shashikant Gosavi to defuse the situation.

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The injured — Asif Iqbal Azmi, Ansar Nasir Shikalkar, Afrosh Hussain Shikalkar, Riyaz Aqbar Khan, Samir Yusuf Sayyed, Imran Jabbar Pathan, Gaffarlal Mohammed Bagwan and Raju Shabbir Bagwan, were admitted to the Government hospital in Baramati.

False alarm
A false alarm about a plane crash near Viman Nagar on Pune-Ahmednagar road sent the Pune police and Central Fire Brigade on the wild goose chase on Wednesday afternoon.

The city police control room had received a telephone call around 1 p.m. that an aircraft had crashed near Viman Nagar. They in turn informed the Central Fire Brigade and Yerawada police station under whose jurisdiction Viman Nagar falls.

Three fire tenders rushed to the spot. Some policemen from Yerawada police station also arrived. Realising that it was a false alarm they returned. Traffic snarl
Traffic on the road linking the RTO with the College of Engineering chowk was thrown out of gear for nearly an hour after a tempo broke down on the new Sangam Bridge during peak hours on Wednesday evening.

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A large number of commuters found themselves stranded as the entire traffic came to a standstill after the scrap-laden tempo broke down around 7 p.m.

Vehicles heading in directions were diverted on a single track by the policemen from the nearby RTO chowk and the College of Engineering chowk.

A crane was summoned from Khadki to tow the stranded tempo. However, the snarl caused a delay in its arrival. The traffic returned to normal after the tempo was shifted about an hour later.

Small units
The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s ambitious project to shift small industrial units from residential areas to industrial zones is as good as scrapped. Reason- a weak response from the industrial units to participate in the proposed rehabilitation project at Bhosari.

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The corporation had shortlisted a total of 386 industrial units for shifting. However, a mere forty industries expressed their willingness to move. The project had been contemplated eight years ago when residents who faced problems due to the functioning of the industrial units appealed to the corporation to shift the industries. The details were worked out with the industrial associations after which the corporation acquired a plot admeasuring two hectares at T-block of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation at the rate of Rs 150 per sq meter from the MIDC after the corporation signed a lease deed.