Apr 10, 2018, 00:38 IST Pune: A multi-disciplinary design company from the city was awarded the prestigious Red Dot distinction for designing a range of disposable tableware. The firm, Therefore Design, bagged the distinction for fabricating ‘Chuk’ — the disposable tableware. Manufactured using bagasse, an agricultural residue of the sugar industry, the product is extremelyContinue reading
Updated: Apr 10, 2018, 11:01 IST PUNE: The airport authoritieshere are now targeting April 30 for the switch-over to solar power from conventional energy. Airpor officials on Monday saud the 300 Kwp (kilowattpeak) solar project was still being installed and that the “scheduled date” of completion was April 30. In February, the authorities had said the Rs 1.27Continue reading
Updated: Apr 10, 2018, 00:38 IST Pune: The NCP and the MNS corporators on Monday demanded formation of a special cell to speed up the land acquisition for the Katraj-Kondhwa road. “The acquisition has not been done according to the requirement. At least 70% land should be acquired before starting the work on the ground.Continue reading
Updated: Apr 09, 2018 22:38 IST The Pune railway administration inaugurated an emergency medical booth at the Pune railway station on Sunday, that will be operational 24×7. Senior divisional commercial manager Krishnath Patil said, “This emergency medical booth is being established for convenience of passengers. Doctors would be present at this emergency medical booth toContinue reading
Published: April 9, 2018 4:21:10 am Following a spree of complaints by fliers about unclean and insufficient washrooms, the Pune airport administration has opened 11 toilet blocks at the terminal’s security hold, departure and arrival areas. Of the new toilet blocks, five are for men, three for women and three for the differently-abled. With increasingContinue reading
Published: April 9, 2018 5:31:46 am On the occasion of National Motherhood Day, an awareness and outreach programme, titled ‘Sunepan se kilkariyon ki ore’, was organised by the Assisted Reproductive Technology Centre of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Command Hospital, Southern Command. Held at Dhanwantri Auditorium, the event was attended by about 700 people.Continue reading
Published: April 9, 2018 5:11:11 am “Man has unnecessarily interfered with the nature for his greed. This has changed the climate and affected public health…,” said N J Pawar, former vice-chancellor of Shivaji University in Kolhapur. He was delivering the inaugural address on ‘Impact of Climate Change on Public Health’ and establishment of Centre forContinue reading
Published: April 9, 2018 4:34:43 am Pune district has ranked fourth in the state in retaining sufficient groundwater levels. There are only 17 villages across four talukas that showed marginal fall in the ground water table. This was revealed in the latest survey carried out by the Groundwater Survey and Development Agency (GSDA). According toContinue reading
Updated: Apr 9, 2018, 00:24 IST Edited: pic in p common file name bark, bin, bag Caption for bark: Plate and bowls made using betel nut bark Caption for bin: Surendra Shroff with the garbage bin liners made out of newspapers. Caption for bag: Cloth bag recycled from a used children’s t-shirt. Pune: Dump theContinue reading
Updated: Apr 8, 2018, 10:47 IST PUNE: The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (MahaMetro) conducted a drone-based survey of the proposed Swargate-Katraj route on Saturday to help prepare a detailed project report. About six flights of the drone, which had a camera attached to it, were carried out on the 6km stretch. The entire exercise started in the morning andContinue reading
