Tag: Pune

Mumbai/Pune: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reaching here Tuesday on a day’s visit to Maharashtra in which he will launch infrastructure and housing projects worth about Rs 41,000 crore in the state, officials said. Soon after landing at Mumbai, Modi will attend an event organised by a TV channel and later release the book ‘Timeless […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday allowed Gautam Navlakha, one of the five rights activists arrested in connection with Koregaon-Bhima case, to be freed from the house arrest. The high court granted him the relief saying that the Supreme Court last week had given him the liberty to approach the appropriate forum within […]

Bhubaneswar: The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, will conduct a week-long film appreciation course here as part of the institute’s nationwide programme to popularise film learning, the Director of FTII, Pune, Bhupendra Kainthola said. The course will provide a unique opportunity to the cine lovers of Odisha, to understand cinema from one […]

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police registered 16 FIRs and detained over 300 people in connection with protests by Dalit groups during the day-long bandh yesterday against the Bhima Koregaon caste clashes, while Internet services were suspended in Kolhapur following tension in the district. Over 200 buses of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation were damaged in […]

New Delhi: Ten more airports in the country, including Pune and Ranchi, will soon do away with the practice of stamping domestic passengers’ hand baggage tags, a new air travel regime that began at civil airports in April this year. A total of 17 airports are stamp-free in the country at present, with four airports […]

Pune: Rishika Sunkara scored an easy straight set win over her Arthi Muniyan while Pune’s Rutuja Bhosale had to rally from a set down to beat Vasanti Shinde to move into the second round of the Qualifying tournament for the NECC-ITF women’s USD 25,000 tennis tournament here today. The 11th seeded Rishika won 6-1, 6-1, […]

The death toll in the landslide at Malin village near here rose to 23 this morning even as rescue workers resumed operations, which were hampered during the night due to rains and poor visibility

India's earth sciences ministry yesterday launched the country's first air quality mobile application to provide the forecast for air quality and corresponding health advisories in real time. The service is presently for Delhi and Pune

No award, not even the Nobel Prize, is free of controversies these days. So, there was no surprise when the conferment of the ‘Ideal Chief Minister’ award on Naveen Patnaik at MIT World Peace University, Pune on Sunday created the customary round of furore with naysayers raking up the ‘award fixing’ charge once again.   […]

Pune: Three women, all senior citizens, were killed early on Wednesday in a hit-and-run accident while they out on a morning stroll, a police officer said. The incident occurred near Udapur village on a state highway route Ahmednagar-Kalyan Road around 5.45 a.m. Traffic was sparse at that hour on the otherwise usually busy road, said […]

New Delhi: Pune-based Quick Heal Technologies has become the first Indian company granted a patent for its ground-breaking anti-ransomware technology by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Designed and developed by Quick Heal’s state-of-the-art R&D and innovation centre in Pune, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)-powered technology detects and blocks known and […]

Pune: In a bid to plan a “smart and accessible city”, the Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd. (PSCDCL) has partnered with University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney that would help the city fulfil its digital innovation agenda with big-data analytics. Pune has already established itself as a leader in innovative and sustainable use […]

Pune: At least 11 persons have been killed in various rain-related incidents in the city and surroundings since late Wednesday, officials said here on Thursday. According to the State and District Disaster Controls, at least five persons were washed away in flood waters in Shivapur. A wall crashed in Arnyshwar Complex killing six more, while […]

Pune: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said Pakistan was indulging in a “proxy” war as it had realised that it cannot win a “conventional” one. The path of “proxy” war chosen by Pakistan would only lead to its defeat, he added. Singh was speaking at the passing out parade of the 137th course at […]

New Delhi: India has topped the TomTom Traffic Index 2019 with 4 of its cities amongst the 10 most congested cities globally. Bengaluru (71%), Mumbai (65%), Pune (59%) and New Delhi (56%) ranks 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th respectively. The other global cities featured amongst the top 10 include Manila from the Philippines, Bogota from […]