The Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd has some major plans in store for Aundh, Baner and Pashan. The Smart City corporation plans to spend Rs 325 crore in one year and develop a 27-km smart street with free space for citizen initiatives, said officials. Besides, there will be four more placemaking sites coming upContinue reading
Pune: College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) has been chosen by the ministry of human resource development and World Bank to mentor Manipur Technical University under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP). Mukul Sutaone, dean of academics at CoEP, said, “This is the third phase of the project. In the first phase, we did qualityContinue reading
Pimpri Chinchwad: PMPML will soon set up a divisional office in Pimpri Chinchwad to cater to citizens’ grievances and suggestions. At present, residents of Pimpri Chinchwad visit the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited’s (PMPML) central office in Swargate to air their grievances The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s standing committee will also hold a one-day workshop at Auto Cluster inContinue reading
TNN | Updated: Apr 27, 2018, 00:01 IST Pune: A clean-up and bird-watching activity has been organized by the Swachh Kalyaninagar group at Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary in Yerawada on every weekend from this Saturday till May 20. The initiative is supported by the Adar Poonawalla clean city initiative, Pune Municipal Corporation and volunteers. The two-hour cleanliness driveContinue reading
PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation conducted trial runs of bus services on the bus rapid transit system on Pune-Mumbai highway on Tuesday and WednesdaY. Vijay Bhojane, spokesperson of BRTS cell, said, “The trial runs were conducted in the presence of Himmatrao Jadhav, who had filed a petition in the Bombay high court raising safety concerns about theContinue reading
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation has set May 31 deadline for completing road works on the bus rapid transit system corridor on Pune-Satara Road. The renovation work on the Katraj-Swargate stretch is being done as a part of the Smart City Mission’s street redesign project. The overhaul of the 5.4km BRTS corridor will ensure better services for PMPML bus passengers.Continue reading
PUNE: Two days before the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Moscow on June 14, a different tournament backed by the world football governing body will start in Russia as a part of a wider youth outreach programme. And boy! A Puneite will “play the ball” there. Meet Rudresh Gaudnor, a student of a PMC-run school. A part of aContinue reading
Updated: Apr 26, 2018, 06:36 IST PUNE: Nearly 40,000 members of 300-400 Sindhi families living in the Pimpri Camp area for generations are finally free to redevelop, sell or mortgage their land with the state government according the plots the freehold status. Thirty-one Sindhi colonies across Maharashtra will become freehold land as a result of a smallContinue reading
PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: Livable Hinjewadi — an initiative launched by social organisations and IT professional residing in Hinjewadi, Maan and Marunji villages to make the area livable — will focus on increasing greenery, maintaining cleanliness and improving the groundwater table. Ravindra Sinha, a member of the Hinjewadi IT Park Residents’ Welfare Association (HIRWA), said, “The MIDC acquired landContinue reading
PUNE: The National Film Archive of India (NFAI) has added 71 movie prints, including 50 not present with it in any formatin, in the 16mm format to its collection. There are 66 colour films and five films from the black-and-white era. The acquisition includes 42 landmark black-and-white Marathi films, including “Warnecha Waagh (1970), a filmContinue reading
