Pratibha’s big gift to Jalgaon waiting to take first flightSaturday, May 18, 2013,09:24:31 AM
I t has been three years since the foundation stone for the Jalgaon airport was laid, but the Rs 80-crore project is yet to see the light of day. The then President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil inaugurated the airport in her home district in March 2012, but it is still waiting for its licence.....
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ICC report warned BCCI about match, spot-fixing dangerFriday, May 17, 2013,09:38:33 AM
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Indian Premier League (IPL) cannot claim they did not know this was coming. They were warned and warned in no uncertain terms. A report on anti-corruption measures, ....
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NSG conducts mock drills in UoP, NDA and top tech firmThursday, May 16, 2013,10:41:46 AM
That the city is no longer a sleepy town, a paradise for the retired, has been well established with the German Bakery and JM Road blasts that tore through its serenity. These incidents aligned the city on the national terror map. ....
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Playing hookey out as UoP turns screw on low attendanceWednesday, May 15, 2013,08:03:21 AM
Students who firmly believe that college is about everything but the classroom are in for a bit of rethink, with the University of Pune (UoP) imposing a high minimum attendance level for both undergraduates and post-graduates at all of its 357 colleges. ....
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Women pickpockets commit better half of thefts on buses: CopsTuesday, May 14, 2013,09:12:43 AM
You see women like them every day — decentlyattired, middle class demeanour, travel mostly by bus and looking reasonably busy and harried by the push and shove of peak hour public transport travel.....
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Burning HellSunday, May 12, 2013,06:17:58 PM
Someone tapped Preeti Rathi, 23, on the shoulder as she was alighting from her train at Mumbai’s Bandra Terminus at 8 am on May 2. When she turned, a man with a handkerchief wrapped around his face and a cap on his head flung acid on her face and fled. As Preeti collapsed, clutching her face in....
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Octroi’s last bastion fallsSaturday, May 11, 2013,10:10:13 AM
Everyone agrees that the archaic, inefficient, corruptionprone tax called octroi should go. The good news is, that after an almost 50-year struggle, octroi is almost extinguished in Maharashtra (it has already been done away with in all other states). ....
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Domestic violence on the rise among neo-rural richFriday, May 10, 2013,09:05:50 AM
Domestic violence has a new address around Pune. The burgeoning city which has sent land prices in its periphery climbing fast, has triggered a lot of farmland sale in the past few years. The rising liquidity (or the thirst for it) of the landed gentry around the city has not only....
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BRTS takes an uneasy middle pathThursday, May 09, 2013,12:42:51 AM
With the first phase of the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), that ran on the outer fringes, nearing completion, officials at the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) are rolling up their sleeves to take up work on Jangli Maharaj (J M), Fergusson College (F C) and Aundh roads. ....
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Host in the machineWednesday, May 08, 2013,01:21:27 AM
Once again, the National Institute of Virology (NIV) has raised the red flag over the rising incidences of Hepatitis C being contracted at city hospitals by patients with renal problems who visit them for dialysis. ....
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Poor response, say schools; pity, say education officialsTuesday, May 07, 2013,09:11:27 AM
With the deadline for completing admissions under the 25 per cent reservation for underprivileged students specified in the Right To Education (RTE) Act a few weeks away, efforts by the administration and schools to achieve this target appears headed for failure. ....
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‘We’d warned him the offer was too high, but he just wouldn’t listen’Monday, May 06, 2013,09:06:52 AM
In the end, it was probably Vinod Broker’s Ebenezer Scrooge traits that did him in. For the billionaire businessman from an already-successful business family, who often told close friends that much of his wealth was thanks to a knack for making a killing in property deals, the lure of getting a 100-per cent-plus ....
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18 lab dogs to get new lease of life after MoEF orderSunday, May 05, 2013,09:14:01 AM
There is hope for 18 beagles who have been languishing at Lupin Ltd’s research facility in Nande on the city’s outskirts in confined conditions despite not having been used in tests for three years. The plight of the dogs came to light during a random visit to the Lupin facility by a Ministry of Environment and ....
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PMC washes hands of supplying builders with treated sewageSaturday, May 04, 2013,02:41:12 PM
For once, builders’ thriftiness could actually benefit the general public as the region struggles with drought. To save on municipal water costs and tanker expenses, the city’s construction sector is willing to use some of the millions of ....
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‘Cash-crunched’ MIT forces fifty per cent pay cut on employeesFriday, May 03, 2013,09:41:43 AM
One of the stalwarts of the Oxford of the East, Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT) has not been able to pay more than a half-salary to its employees earning over Rs 20,000 per month. ....
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Sold on the crowdWednesday, May 01, 2013,08:50:53 AM
It’s a trend that sort of levels the playing field by loosening the stranglehold big-ticket record labels and production houses have on funds when it comes to investing in fresh talent. It grants creative freedom, bypasses the hierarchy, and lets you — the viewer — invest in what you want to hear or see.....
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Drinking water used to fill swimming pool at Yerwada complexTuesday, April 30, 2013,09:02:56 AM
Shortage of water may have most of the district in its grip, but not so at the Yerwada Sports Complex where the district sports department is gung-ho about throwing open its swimming pools within two weeks. ....
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Pyarelal land grab: Kondhwa man held for ‘buying’ the plotMonday, April 29, 2013,01:42:11 AM
In some relief for Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma, of Laxmikant-Pyarelal fame, Lonavla police arrested a man accused as the prime suspect in a land grab case filed by the veteran Bollywood music composer and his son. As per records, Kondhwa resident Asif Karim Sheikh, 32, is a firsttime....
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In a move that’s sure to bring cheer to the city’s green brigade, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has ordered that paver blocks and concretisation that is found to be choking trees in the twin township at the base should be broken. The order has been issued has been issued to all....
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