

Sunday 13 September '09
The much-awaited eco-friendly Compressed Natural Gas buses will now hit the streets after the Assembly elections.Sunday 13 September '09
The much-debated issue about the quality of mid-day meals in schools is back in focus.Saturday
12 September '09The Central Bureau of Investigation wants to re-investigate the case against Pune-based adoption agency Preet Mandir.Friday
11 September '09The much awaited digitisation of the fair price shop in Gokhale Nagar will have to wait post elections.Friday
11 September '09School teachers in the district can heave a sigh of relief as many of them will be excused from poll duty in the ensuing Assembly elections. District collector Chandrakant Dalvi said most of the teaching staff will be kept off poll duty as per their request.Wednesday
9 September '09It’s been six months since the state Cabinet approved Rs 200-crore seed capital to develop international airport at Chakan in Pune...Sunday
6 September '09Nearly 16 lakh Above Poverty Line ration card holders in the district will receive sugar through the Public Distribution System for Rs 20 from next week, according to the GR issued last week.Wednesday
2 September '09The Bharat Forge multi-product SEZ at Chakan is all set to embark on its second phase of land acquisition that will see 1,900 hectares being acquired from seven villages.Tuesday
1 September '09It might not be before 2011 that the farmers of Avsari Khurd village, some 40 kms from Pune city, will have their own Special Economic Zone.Saturday
29 August '09The Videocon SEZ in Wagholi was scrapped following farmers’ agitation as the project was in preliminary stage of implementation and it had to move through the formal approval stage before reaching the notified stage.Friday
28 August '09Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Wednesday announced that the proposed Videocon SEZ at Wagholi would be scrapped, ending a two-year standoff between the villagers and the state government.Wednesday
26 August '09The State Government is apparently dragging its feet on setting up the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority.Wednesday
26 August '09The state government-approved development control rules for areas up to 10 kms from the civic limits will be finally implemented in September.Sunday
23 August '09The ambitious Pune metro rail project will seek help from the Mumbai Metropolitan Development Region Development Authority to prepare the bid document for the Build-Operate-Transfer model as was done in Mumbai.Friday
21 August '09The Maharashtra government invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, in the city on August 4, a day after the city recorded the country’s first H1N1 death.Thursday
20 August '09The district administration has identified the fair price shop at Gokhalenagar for the pilot project of issuing smart cards for supply of kerosene under the public distribution system (PDS) in the city.Friday
14 August '09District Collector Chandrakant Dalvi said on Thursday that there needs to be a discussion with experts as to whether a Mexican model shutdown as demanded by the civic body...Wednesday
12 August '09Even as the State Government has issued fresh guidelines to involve the private sector in tackling the H1N1 scare, another issue has cropped up.Sunday
9 August '09This resident of Aundh had to pay Rs 333 instead of the regular Rs 311 for her Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited LPG cylinder on Friday.Sunday
9 August '09Even as there was a rush of people to the 23 screening centres in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad areas and at Naidu Hospital and Aundh Hospital...Saturday
8 August '09The statement of the Met department that the humidity content will continue to prevail in the atmosphere owing to the monsoon season...Friday
7 August '09With H1N1 cases rising in the city, the Serum Institute of India — which is conducting the vaccine trials — is set to carry out the same on animals by the month-end.Wednesday
5 August '09Harshvardhan Group of Companies have sought a stay order on the notices issued by the Pune Municipal Corporation...Wednesday
5 August '09With the rising incidences of swine flu cases reported in Pune district and the death of a 14-year-old girl, the health department has taken all measures to increase the stock of anti-virals in the district.Sunday
2 August '09Vanitha knows a jhambal tree when she sees one. After school, the seven-year-old rushes to the village grove, swings from the jhambal’s branches and nibbles on its bitter-sour fruits till her teeth go sour.