Updated: Apr 3, 2018, 09.26 AM IST Forest department plans to set up concrete barricades across the city’s thriving tekdis in order to keep away encroachers; plan will be open to citizens’ inputs Depleting forest cover on the hills and encroachment have been a concern for environmentalists as well as residents. Now, the forest department has decidedContinue reading
Updated: Apr 3, 2018, 11.26 AM IST While the city will not have to face water cuts right now, it might soon have to live with rationing of the precious resource. Considering the early heatwave this year and the situation of water reserves, Pune’s guardian minister Girish Bapat had told the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)Continue reading
Updated: Apr 2, 2018, 12.08 PM IST In order to tackle the heatwave which has arrived this year much earlier than usual, the disaster management department of the state government has issued a circular to the Pune district administration to prepare an action plan to deal with the situation. The department has also for theContinue reading
Updated: April 2, 2018 5:36 am WHILE the Pune Municipal Corporation has collected only 40 per cent of its target of Rs 1,400 crore from building permission charges by the end of the 2017-2018 financial year, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has not only achieved cent per cent target but even exceeded it by 10Continue reading
Updated: Apr 02, 2018 14:13 IST Every weekend, more than 100 volunteers walk up to the seven Tekdi hills in the city, armed with watering cans, bottles, and even gunny bags filled with coco peat, all to help trees survive the sweltering heat during the hottest months of the year. Himanshu Kulkarni, a volunteer atContinue reading
Updated: Apr 2, 2018, 02.30 AM IST An English teacher from a remote village in Satara district will present his work — of successfully teaching English to rural students — at an international conference in Brighton UK. Balaji Jadhav, who teaches at a Zilla Parishad school in Pulkoti village, has been invited by International AssociationContinue reading
The Military Institute of Technology (MILIT), the tri-service technological training establishment of the Indian Armed Forces in Girinagar near Pune, announced on Sunday that it has adopted Donje — a village located on the foothills of Sinhagad fort. The institute will take up projects in waste management, education, agriculture and training of youths in theContinue reading
As the long summer season takes off, the dams in Pune region, including five major dams that provide water to Pune city and Pimpri-Chinchwad, are over 50 per cent full. This is a significant improvement compared to the amount of water they had at this time last year: 34.27 per cent. Last year,the dropping waterContinue reading
Updated: Apr 2, 2018, 02.30 AM IST The city witnessed a rare and mesmerising blend of two great traditions of music — Hindustani and Carnatic — on Sunday as Aarti Anklikar-Tikekar, a renowned Hindustani vocalist, and Gayathri Venkatraghavan, a famous Carnatic vocalist, came together. The event was organised by Kannada Sangh and the Kalmadi familyContinue reading
Updated: Apr 1, 2018, 10:12 IST PUNE : The Swargate-Katraj bus rapid transit system (BRTS) corridor will likely be thrown open to the public on May 1. Senior officials of the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) said that the infrastructure will be in place by April 15 and that the bus service is expected to becomeContinue reading
