City student bags global fellowship

Thursday 12 November '09

Ketan Deshpande, a third year student of engineering at a city college, has become the youngest in India to bag the Paragon Fellowship awarded by the Hong Kong-based Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship...

Puzzle passion

Sunday 8 November '09

Arvind Gokhale's hobby of assembling jigsaw puzzles might seem unusual for someone, who is in his late 50s.

Trade unions to fight together for demands

Tuesday 3 November '09

National Labour Unions like All India Trade Union Congress Akhil Bharatiya Kamgar Sena Hind Mazdoor Sangh and others are up in arms against anti-labour government policies like privatisation, contract labourers and inflation.

A treat in store for those into philately: national stamps fair from today

Friday 30 October '09

Stampex Pune 2009 - a national stamps fair is back in the city - this time, promising three special attractions to visitors.

Road to recovery: Companies to start campus recruitment in Dec

Tuesday 27 October '09

After most IT and non-IT companies delayed campus recruitments by six months because of economic slowdown, many are now approaching engineering colleges in the city to hold placement interviews in December.

Widow wins battle: court orders insurance company to pay Rs 1.35 lakh

Friday 23 October '09

The Pune District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has ordered New India Assurance Company Ltd to pay about Rs 1.35 lakh...

Watchdog for corporators, MLAs: lawyers’ body to track development

Wednesday 21 October '09

After successfully launching their pilot project of recording offences by candidates who campaigned on the basis of caste...

Delimitation: Voter shift in Ambegaon

Monday 19 October '09

Close to 80,000 voters from 42 villages, earlier from Shirur constituency, now merged with Ambegaon, are likely to emerge as a decisive force here.

Lok Nyayalaya frequency should be halved, feel lawyers

Monday 19 October '09

Even as Pune District Labour and Industrial Court held this year’s biggest Lok Nyayalaya last week, lawyers say the frequency of Lok Nyayalayas should be cut down from quarterly to half-yearly.

Civic school students shine at computer gaming event

Tuesday 13 October '09

Parag Somvanshi and Pratik Shinde, Class IX students of PMC schools who had never played computer games not only reached the final of a gaming competition based on climate change, but were also declared special awardees.

Lawyers’ body keeps hawk eye on campaign

Tuesday 6 October '09

City-based lawyers’ organisation Adhivakta Parishad is keeping a close watch on candidates to see whether any of them is campaigning on the basis of religion, community, origin, language or belief.

Keskar targets middle class voters, with promises of FSI scheme on lines of Mumbai

Thursday 1 October '09

BY promising a 0.33 paid up FSI’ scheme, on the lines of Mumbai, for the city, BJP rebel candidate Ujwal Keskar from Kothrud constituency has made it clear that this Assembly election...

Irked flat owners join hands to get promised deal

Monday 28 September '09

Twenty-nine-year-old Nikhil Roy, an IT professional, had booked a flat at Wonder Futura project in Kothrud in 2006.

New judge for faster redressal of pending cases

Tuesday 8 September '09

The cases at industrial court for Pune district are likely to be resolved faster as judge B C Chandrakapure...

Pedalling a way: Bicycle project for rural school children

Tuesday 8 September '09

For Bhagyashree Mahale, Pooja Bhagat and Ashwini Warpe in class X of Amruteshwar High school in Kondur village of Mulshi, a bicycle means an added motivation to go to school.

Service tax applicable only to legal firms, says BCI

Wednesday 26 August '09

The Bar Council of India recently sent a clarification to all lawyer associations in Pune that the service tax introduced for lawyers in this year's budget is applicable only to legal firms and not to independent practicing lawyers.

To hear pending cases at industrial court, judge from Mumbai to come down to Pune

Tuesday 25 August '09

Considering the huge number of pending court cases at industrial court for Pune district, the president of industrial court, Mumbai, has deputed a judge from Mumbai for faster redressal of cases.

Overseas offerings

Friday 21 August '09

For the first time in decades, Ganesh Utsav – the largest public festival of Pune will not live up to this popularity – a measure to contain the spread of swine flu.

Consumer court to bank: return customer’s money, restore credit limit

Tuesday 18 August '09

The Pune District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum recently passed an order asking the Dhole Patil Road branch of Standard Chartered Bank to return Rs 22,000 to one of its customers and reinstate his credit limit back to Rs 2 lakh.

Covered or not? Confusion reigns among insurance policy holders

Thursday 13 August '09

Even as the count of those infected by H1N1 virus is increasing, insurance agents in the city are confused as to whether swine flu is included in the general health insurance policy or not.

Calm, helpful girl, recalls Shruti’s shattered family

Wednesday 12 August '09

Bhanudas Gawde cannot bring himself to leave the iron cot in the verandah of his house.

Labour, industrial court lawyers take one-week swine flu break

Tuesday 11 August '09

Around 200 labour and industrial court lawyers who are members of the Labour Law Practitioners’ Association have decided to take a ‘swine flu break’ for a week.

Cheque misplaced, bank told to pay Rs 5.61 lakh to customer

Wednesday 5 August '09

The Pune district consumer court recently ordered the Axis Bank to pay Rs 5.61 lakh to Hadapsar-based building construction contractor Nilesh Pokar after the bank misplaced his cheque.

It's green push: staff told to use car pools

Monday 3 August '09

Several IT firms and IT parks have introduced parking fee for employees.

Reels of learning

Friday 31 July '09

If you thought film production was the forte of the wealthy, Pramod Prabhulkar’s workshop on the topic will help you bust that myth.