Lighting up lives, with earthen lamps

Saturday 17 October '09

For six years now, Anand Saraf has been celebrating Diwali in a manner he knows best-by spreading light in the lives of many, especially jawans fighting on the border.

Rethink fixed 5-yr term: college principals to Sibal

Sunday 11 October '09

With several colleges already functioning without a head due to lack of qualified candidates...

Raj pulls a huge crowd, causes jitters around

Saturday 10 October '09

A day after Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and Raj Thackeray held election meetings, almost around the same time in the city...

‘Honour killings have emerged as a serious problem for rural women’

Saturday 3 October '09

To commemorate 2nd October as the International Day of Non-Violence, an awareness campaign against atrocities on women and children was launched at Karuna Sadan in Sector 11 on Friday.

Confusion marks extension of Keep Term scheme

Thursday 1 October '09

Even as the Bombay High Court has given the go-ahead to the state government’s Allowed To Keep Term (ATKT) scheme for SSC students...

Focus on tie-ups with city institutes, says Alliance Francaise director

Wednesday 30 September '09

Alliance Francaise de Pune will now be focussing on having more tie-ups with educational institutes in the city for promoting French language and culture.

MNS and RLDF likely to play spoilers for big 4

Sunday 27 September '09

The political pundits may be unsure about Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and Republican-Left Democratic Front winning any seats in Pune district in the Assembly elections...

CPM to target middle class votes, says it will reach out to tech-savvy voters

Thursday 24 September '09

When it comes to elections, everything is fair. This assembly election, the champion of proletariats’ cause and the voice of labour class, the Communist Party of India (CPI-M) will be seen wooing the middle class.

Third Front to counter Cong-NCP secular card

Wednesday 23 September '09

The Republican-Left Democratic Front (RLDF) or the Third Front has drawn up a strategy to counter the Congress-NCP claims of being secular.

DTE rules: no buying seats, vacant engineering seats only on merit

Tuesday 22 September '09

Now, those engineering diploma students aspiring to get direct admission to second year engineering courses can get admissions on the basis of merit.

Oscar entry Harishchandrachi Factory gets set for grand release

Tuesday 22 September '09

Ecstatic with the nomination of Harishchandrachi Factory as the official entry of India for Oscars, producers of the film are now planning to dub the film in Hindi and four regional languages.

Revaluation: no panel yet to look into old rule

Sunday 20 September '09

The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education is to yet form a committee to re-look into the old rule of not allowing the students to apply for reassessment of their answersheets.

LSE grad, also champion of housemaids, is lone CPM candidate from Pune

Friday 18 September '09

She’s a post-graduate from the London School of Economics (LSE). Now she has taken on a totally different avatar — a champion of housemaids in Pune.

Artificial rain: IITM not sure of results

Friday 18 September '09

Rain shadow regions like Rayalseema, Telangana, Marathwada and north madhya Maharashtra will witness the cloud seeding experiment next monsoon season as part of the Cloud Aerosol Interaction and Precipitation Experiment...

Flu scare tones down Navratrai festival

Tuesday 15 September '09

After the sudden spurt in H1N1 patients following Ganesh festival in the city, the Navratri celebrations will be a low-key affair.

Regulating school fees, no report from panel yet

Saturday 12 September '09

A 19-member committee that was set up by the state government three months back to decide on the norms of a fee regulatory body...

In idea to make T20 more popular, fan beats Sachin

Wednesday 9 September '09

A cricket fan in the city has scored over Sachin Tendulkar. But Sachin won’t mind at all, because it’s all for making the T20 version of cricket more popular.

National Film Award scripts shepherd boy’s dream journey to Delhi

Tuesday 8 September '09

For Sharad Goekar, 11-year-old winner of the National Award in the Best Child Artiste category for 2007 announced on Monday, life has been...

Bolivia calling

Tuesday 8 September '09

Here is a young girl from Pune who chose to go abroad to study after doing her masters’ course but not to the US...

Paris to Pune

Monday 7 September '09

Forty years ago this Mademoiselle from Paris stepped into a land that intrigued her.

September rains may make up for the deficit

Sunday 6 September '09

With no signs of monsoon withdrawing, as it usually does from September 1, it seems the rainfall deficit may be made up now.

Legendary musings

Saturday 5 September '09

If it's your belief that Indian cinema is nothing more than mainstream Hindi movies, think twice. The essence of regional cinema definitely has a global appeal.

College jobs: PhDs need no longer clear NET/SET

Saturday 5 September '09

Colleges affiliated to the University of Pune (UoP) will now be able to fill in around 1,000 posts of associate professors (lecturers) lying vacant for a long time.

Animation, gaming: Pune gears up for boom time

Wednesday 2 September '09

With the state government coming out with an IT policy that lays special emphasis on the animation and gaming industry last Friday...

Artificial rain: state approaches meteorological institute

Sunday 30 August '09

In the wake of drought like situation in the state, the state government is contemplating on mobilising artificial rains in some parts of the states, especially in drought and catchment areas.