Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation has decided to suspend its drive to remove overhead cables, barely a month after its launch, to develop a regulatory framework aligned with 2023-24 directives from the Union power and communications ministries.The decision was taken at a standing committee meeting held on Thursday. Committee chairman Shrinath Bhimale said the civic…
Pune: The Savitribai Phule Pune University has started the admission process for undergraduate and postgraduate courses.Students can submit online applications till May 15 and the entrance examinations will be conducted between June 1 and 13 at 16 centres across the state, as announced by the university.Every year, admissions are conducted through an online entrance system…
Pune: Former chairman of Cosmos Cooperative Bank Ltd, Mukund Abhyankar, passed away on Thursday. He was 89. He was inducted into the bank’s board of directors in 1978 and held the position of chairman nine times. He was also chairman of National Federation of Urban Cooperative Banks and Credit Societies. tnn Source link
Pune: CM Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said govt would examine the feasibility of developing Bhor taluka as a food processing special economic zone (SEZ) or an export hub.“We will explore the possibility of developing a food processing export hub or SEZ here. Our team will hold discussions with food processing business owners in the region…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: A Bombay high court lawyer, 49-year-old Mithun Bhaskar, was stabbed to death late on Wednesday night on the Beed Bypass Road in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, and the police on Thursday arrested a transgender person and two accomplices in connection with the murder.“Our teams detected the case within hours of the incident coming to light….
Pune: Many flyers of an early morning Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight SG-937 on Thursday boarded the plane and dozed off. When some of them woke up after an hour-and-a-half hoping that the aircraft must be descending for the destination, they were disappointed to find themselves still on the Pune airport tarmac.“The flight (SG-937) was scheduled to…
PUNE: The court of additional sessions judge (POCSO Act) SS Saste on Thursday convicted and sentenced a barber (24) to five years’ rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old boy in a room inside his shop in the Vimantal police area on Nov 7, 2022.The accused, who had secured bail three months after his arrest…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s (PCMC) law committee has cleared a proposal seeking full authority to determine the terms and conditions for all civic tenders. The move has sparked criticism from civic activists and across political circles, who view it as an attempt to centralise power.The proposal, approved on April 4, was initiated by…
Pune: The long-delayed construction of Baner-Pashan Link Road (BPLR) is expected to resume within a month following a high-level site visit and meeting regarding land acquisition held on Thursday.According to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials, only 200 metres of the 1.2 km road remain to be acquired. Despite the administration having already spent Rs25 crore…
Pune:A team of doctors from the Army Institute of Cardiothoracic Sciences (AICTS) successfully treated four patients suffering from an exceptionally uncommon and life-threatening condition called coronary stent infection of which fewer than 50 cases have been documented globally.The condition is medically referred to as post-percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery aneurysm or coronary stent infection. It…
