Deccan Education Society (DES) is collaborating with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) to setup an IBM business analytics lab as part of its IBM career education programme.The lab, which will be inside the DES campus premises, will run certificate programmes, which will be jointly developed by DES and IBM. The lab will also equip facultyContinue reading
The state government plans to generate 14,400 MW of renewable energy by December 2019, thus, providing over four lakh farmers access to electricity, informed Chandrashekhar Bawankule, state minister for energy, new and renewable energy, on Friday. Farmers have been demanding access to electricity during the daytime since the past year and with this plan, 45Continue reading
The Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) has sought assistant from a Singapore government-run company to prepare the development plan (DP) for the city. In a meeting which took place on Friday, Girish Bapat, Pune’s guardian minister along with Kiran Gite, CEO of PMRDA and other officials met a delegation from the Singapore government-run company.Continue reading
PUNE: Digitally signed mutation extracts of land for nearly 30,000 villages in the state will be available online from May 1 ending a 16-year wait for digitisation. People in these villages can download their property recordsfrom two government websites-Mahabhulekh and Aaple Sarkar- from anywhere. State revenue minister Chandrakant Patil told TOI that of the 43,000 villages in theContinue reading
PUNE: Maharashtra has emerged as the top state in terms of total registration (65%) of real estate projects and implementation of the Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA) across the country. As many as 16,125 projects have been registered in Maharashtra of the total 25,000 recorded under RERA across the country. Ahead of RERA completing aContinue reading
In a bid to further increase passenger convenience, Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) has stated that it will add 900 buses to its existing fleet in the next one-and-a-half years. Siddharth Shirole, director, PMPML, said, “We will be floating a new tender for 900 buses in the next 15 days. We are hopeful thatContinue reading
PUNE: Starting from the 2018-19 academic year, civic schools will run junior colleges for all the three streams — arts, science and commerce. The Plus Two classes would be run on self-finance basis, the education board of Pune Municipal Corporation said. The civic body has invited applications from non-profit educational organisations to run the classes. Deepak Mali,Continue reading
PUNE: The deadlock over renewal of licences of small and medium-sized hospitals in the city over the issue of non-registered nursing staff appears to have been resolved with the intervention of minister for state for urban development Ranjit Patil who issued oral orders to the Pune Municipal Corporationto expedite and ease the process of granting renewalContinue reading
PUNE: The department of registration and stamps has started implementing the reduced stamp duty of Rs1,000 for affordable housing projects in the state. The state inspector-general of registration and stamps, Anil Kawade, said, “We have been registering properties under the affordable housing according to the new norms of the state government. We will eventually make aContinue reading
Pune: The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) will install 130 more closed-circuit television cameras, mostly at newly constructed as well as old schools, hospitals and other public places within its jurisdiction for security purpose. PCB’s chief executive officer D N Yadav said, “Our plan is to install cameras at new institutions like Ghorpadi Schooland other establishments like crematorium besides,Continue reading
