Saturday, February 21, 2026

Author: Worldsnap Staff

Pune

Ishrat case: SC stays probe against magistrate

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a Gujarat high court order directing an inquiry against judicial magistrate SP Tamang who had held that teenager Ishrat Jahan and three other alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives were killed in a fake encounter by the state police.A bench of justices B Sudershan Reddy and SS Nijjar asked the chief justice of the Gujarat high court to constitute a division bench on the petitions filed by the deceased’s kin, seeking a CBI inquiry. It also asked th…

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Pune

PMC: Petrol pump land can’t be used for any other purpose

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday issued a press release stating that it would not allow petrol pump owners in the city to use existing petrol pump land for purposes like building commercial complexes.City engineer Prashant Waghmare, in the press release, said that as the ratio of petrol pumps and vehicle numbers is uneven, petrol pumps are needed in the city limits.Recently, it was found that many pump owners were closing petrol pumps and erecting commercial complexes to ca…

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Business

JSW in talks with Reddy bros to buy Bramhani

JSW Steel, India’s third-largest steelmaker, is looking to buy a controlling stake in Bramhani Industries Ltd (BIL), a company floated by Karnataka tourism minister G Janardhan Reddy.Bramhani has been working on setting up an integrated steel plant in Kadapa, the hometown of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajaeskhara Reddy. A highly placed source told DNA Money due diligence is currently on to arrive at fair valuation. JSW Steel did not comment on this.But a compa…

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