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Afghan students pin hopes on poll

Friday 21 August '09

None of them was able to vote, but that didn’t stop them from experiencing palpable excitement at the thought of their country going for the polls.
Thanks a million for the beds, Mr Dryden; may you rest in peace

Tuesday 10 February '09

Thirty-nine years ago, Murray Dryden of Canada donated 50 bed kits to orphans at St Crispin’s Home in Pune, having spent much of his own childhood sleeping on a cold floor.
HIV takes root in Yerawada: 13 prisoners test positive

Friday 16 January '09

Thirteen out of the 165 prisoners or eight per cent of Yerawada central prison who voluntarily underwent tests for HIV between October and December 2008 have turned out to be HIV positive.
After layoff from IT firms comes competition from Satyam employees

Thursday 15 January '09

Vijay Kumar is not a Satyam employee, yet the collapse of the IT company has disturbed this 36-year-old professional.
It’s ID-Day for Pune NGO in Dharavi slums

Saturday 3 January '09

Pune-based Mashaal, awarded the contract to conduct the baseline socio-economic survey of the 70,000-odd families of Dharavi slums a year ago, will start with the distribution of ‘family identity cards’ on Saturday.
Before big day, top bosses address staff

Sunday 21 December '08

Amid much public attention, the Taj hotel in Mumbai will reopen on Sunday. But before the big day — to spring back after the terror attack — the hotel’s top management had a quiet word with its staff across the country through a special web telecast.
After the attack, filmmakers queue up to shoot

Sunday 14 December '08

The row over Ram Gopal Verma’s tour of the Taj Mahal Hotel after the Mumbai attack may have put the filmmaker on the defensive...
Held hostage in Taj, city-based Vaibhava recounts her 7 hours in captivity

Friday 28 November '08

As Vaibhava Rele, the Pune-based professional who does line production for films and documentaries...
Side effect of recession: No work for people who help find jobs

Friday 21 November '08

Just as the slump in the real estate sector has brought the business of agents to a near standstill, the slowdown in IT and related areas has sounded alarm bells on the one sector almost completely dependent on the IT boom — head hunters or placement agencies.
EXPOSED: to radiation in France, to controversy near Pune

Thursday 6 November '08

Vipras Castings Ltd, tucked away in Khopoli, some 70 km from Pune, is coping with one bit of international exposure it could have well done without.
Crop outsourcing: Firms look abroad for a richer harvest

Friday 3 October '08

In a novel move that could yield rich dividends, a group of Indian companies is all set to purchase land abroad for cultivation of crops needed back home. Sixteen companies mainly dealing in oilseeds are taking part in the initiative.
‘IT’S TIME TO THINK BEYOND BOLLYWOOD’

Sunday 10 August '08

Amol Palekar has stayed away from acting for over a decade now. Back with a new role, the actor and director speaks to eye on facing the camera again, his long association with Marathi cinema and the journey so far
Fields of Vision

Sunday 6 July '08

Minal Deshmukh has learnt that you reap what you sow. The 23-year-old from Umraj village in Junnar, Pune district, looks back on her growing-up years...
STATE BLIGHT

Sunday 25 May '08

THE dimly-lit room has little to show of the glitzy remains of the previous night. At 11.30 a.m., its 100-odd occupants, tamasha artistes...
Taking Poona out of Pune

Wednesday 21 May '08

First it was the name row over Bombay and Mumbai. Now, the Shiv Sena has targetted Pune.
Not allowed to sell her flat to a Muslim, Pune woman takes on entire ‘society’

Thursday 3 April '08

When Madhavi Kapoor decided to sell her 1500 sq ft apartment in Pune’s upmarket Boat Club Road area and move to a new house in Koregaon Park...
Soul spa

Sunday 17 February '08

The gurus of permissiveness are missing, so are the scandals. The Osho meditation resort in Pune is a sign of a cult that has grown up
Double trouble: Identical twins turn cops, arrest Pune attention

Tuesday 12 February '08

They hope they will soon be noticed for their work, but right now the sisters have...
Million-dollar turnaround

Sunday 3 February '08

Till a decade ago, this was just another drought-ridden, crime-infested village. Now it’s a land of millionaires. Hiware Bazaar’s success story
MP bureaucrat to take over as film institute director

Sunday 27 January '08

Ending months of speculation, Pankaj Rag will take over as director of the Film and Television Institute of India...
For self-defence, Infy equips women employees with pepper sprays

Thursday 20 December '07

Monday morning saw women employees of Infosys, Pune attend a first-of-its-kind workshop...
Fourth fastest supercomputer to rev up Pune

Thursday 29 November '07

While Eka, the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world and the most powerful one in Asia and Asia-Pacific region...
Empowerment, maid in Mumbai

Sunday 11 November '07

Women in these villages have moved out to earn for their families, leaving behind their homes and husbands
The writing on the reel

Sunday 28 October '07

A 1970 film magazine talks of the hush-hush Babita-Randhir Kapoor dalliance. Thirty-seven years later, a magazine cover screams ‘Why Kareena is scared to marry Saif’. In Pune’s National Film Archives, you realise film journalism hasn’t come that long a way
The edge of FEAR

Sunday 7 October '07

Our correspondent gulped in panic, said a prayer and took a stroll on shards of glass. She lived to tell the tale
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