TNN | Apr 23, 2018, 00:06 IST Pimpri Chinchwad: Municipal commissioner Shravan Hardikar aid on Tuesday that the civic body, in a bid to cut costs, will float revised tenders for house-to-house garbage collection in six months. The standing committee of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation had last week cancelled tenders in two zones. Until the revised tendersContinue reading
Joy Sengupta| TNN | Updated: Apr 23, 2018, 00:05 IST Pune: The railway protection force (RPF) will soon have a bit more bite. Within a fortnight, the RPF will be starting RPF K9 School, Pune — its third national canine training centre after Delhi and Coimbatore. The Pune facility is expected to start functioning from a temporary premises. “WhileContinue reading
Joy Sengupta| TNN | Apr 22, 2018, 23:59 IST Pune: The Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS) set up by Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) is up for scrutiny. The transport body has revived the practice of painting yellow boxes along bus stops and coordinating with the traffic police to ensure that drivers park the buses within the box area.Continue reading
TNN | Apr 22, 2018, 23:57 IST Pune: A team of 16 budding engineers from Sinhgad Institutes have designed a rocket to participate in the prestigious Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) conducted by Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA), USA. The Sinhagad rocketry team comprises undergraduate engineering students. The group of 16 consists of 15 boys and one girl —Continue reading
Siddharth Gaikwad| TNN | Updated: Apr 22, 2018, 12:51 IST PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: The civic body will now be able to conduct the trial run of the bus service on the BRTS corridor on Pune-Mumbai highway following the high court’s permission. Rajan Patil, the joint city engineer of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation(PCMC), said, “The high court gave the permission during aContinue reading
Updated: Apr 23, 2018, 02.30 AM IST In a boon to lakhs of families, the Maharashtra government has extended a 50 per cent fee waiver to all students who want to pursue courses in medical or dental colleges and whose annual family income is Rs 8 lakh or less. The State Education Fee Reimbursement schemeContinue reading
Siddharth Gaikwad| TNN | Updated: Apr 22, 2018, 07:09 IST PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: Several environment organizations have come together for the conservation of Ramnadi, a stream originating in Bavdhan, and other tributaries to ensure that fresh water flows into to the Mula river instead of sewage water. Shailendra Patil, founder-member, Jaldevata Seva Abhiyan, said, “The 18-km-long Ramnadi is one of theContinue reading
Published: April 23, 2018 10:15:12 am The latest meeting organised by the newly-formed District Road Safety Committee saw the absence of most local MLAs, MPs and civic officials with the panel chief saying the representatives were “not serious” about road safety in the city. It was the second meeting organised by the committee, which isContinue reading
Ardhra Nair| TNN | Updated: Apr 22, 2018, 12:47 IST PUNE: Maharashtra may get over 20 new universities as the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), a centrally sponsored scheme for reforming state higher education system, has asked the top 50 institutes in the state to send their proposals for university status. She said the University Grants Commission (UGC) was mulling dismantling ofContinue reading
Sandip Dighe| TNN | Updated: Apr 22, 2018, 12:16 IST PUNE: The ministry of defence has given work the sanction order to the Airports Authority of India to carry out the expansion work at the Lohegaon airport. The defence estates officer (DEO), Rajendra Pawar, who had forwarded a proposal to the ministry in February, told TOI, “As per the procedures, this sanction wasContinue reading
