Mohsin Chaudhary, the man who reportedly planned the Pune blast, is probably in Karachi, say sources in the Anti-Terror Squad, which is investigating the blast.

Sources say 35-year-old Chaudhary, who is the head of Pune branch of the Indian Mujahideen, escaped to Pakistan three days after the terror attack in the city.

Last month, a bomb exploded at Pune's German Bakery on a Saturday evening. Seventeen people were killed, most of them young students and professionals.

NEW DELHI: A bombing that killed 16 people in Pune last month was carried out by Indian Mujahideen, the home-grown Islamist group with links to
militants in Pakistan, Home Secretary Gopal Pillai said on Monday.

The bombing came days before an important official dialogue between India and Pakistan and was the first major attack in India since the 2008 Mumbai raid by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militants who killed 166 people.

Pune : Already on the backfoot due to rising electricity bills, commercial customers of the Maharashtra Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) are now grumbling about the public utility’s erratic nature of billing which has affected their business. Some of the advertisers have even gone to the extent of surrendering the electricity connections used for illuminating the hoardings.

MUMBAI — Indian police arrested two men late Saturday that they suspect were planning terrorist attacks in India's financial capital.

Mumbai's antiterrorism squad arrested Abdul Lateef Rashid, 29 years old, and Riyaz Ali, 23, in the city's suburbs. Police said they were hatching plans to target the office of energy company Oil & Natural Gas Corp. as well as a popular cloth market in South Mumbai and Thakkar Mall in the city's western suburbs.

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MUMBAI: Fearing the possibility of attacks on cafes, restaurants and hotels frequented by foreigners after the Pune blasts, police officials in the western suburbs are preparing a disaster-management plan to safely evacuate people in case of a terrorist attack.

Police officials have identified several famous haunts between Bandra and Andheri and are studying their topography to detail an effective contingency plan.

PUNE: Standing committee chairman of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) Arvind Shinde has said the PMC may just revive the Pune Municipal Transport (PMT).

The statement comes in response to the stand-off between the PMC and the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) over providing funds to the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML).

The Bombay High Court on Thursday said investigations into the German Bakery blast case must continue.

A PIL was filed seeking inquiry into alleged lapses of the bureaucrats and police who failed to avert the blast in Pune on February 13.

Advocate V P Patil, the petitioner, has demanded that compensation which would be paid to the kin of victims should be recovered from those responsible for failing to avert the tragedy.

PUNE: Former Pune mayor, environmental activist and a woman reputed to have her own way, Vandana Chavan was on Tuesday elected unopposed to the state assembly council from the Pune local self-government constituency, setting a record of sorts.

The government had intelligence inputs to indicate that Pune was vulnerable to terror attack, based on which the state police issued detailed security guidelines last year to major commercial establishments, including the German Bakery. A blast in the popular bakery in the city on February 13 had claimed 17 lives. In a reply in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken said, "The suspected main targets in Pune were put under protection by deployment of force including pickets.

Pune : The National Housing Census and National Population Register drive in Pune district will begin on May 1. This is the seventh population census to be undertaken by 2011.

Pune district is expected to record a 25 per cent increase since the last census, about 10 years ago. In the last census, Pune district had recorded a population of 72.67 lakh. The projected population for the district now is 91.42 lakh. The drive will see the entire population, including foreigners, being covered and will record all data of every individual living in the country.