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PMPML buses will have women bus conductors

Mid-day: The city buses will have a new addition shortly in the form of women bus conductors. The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) has assured that it has made provisions to recruit women as conductors as a part of their new fleet, which will be operational from the end of this year....
January 13th, 2011 | Info Guide | Read More

Pune station to have state-of-art security system

Times of India: A state-of-the-art integrated security system has been planned by the Central railways at the Pune railway station. Miraj, which comes under Pune division, will also have a similar system in the next few months.
January 11th, 2011 | Info Guide | Read More

Expedition to spread awareness on water pollution

Times of India: The Mutha Jalmaitri Yatra organised by the boat club of the College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) and the Jal Dindi Pratishthan will be held in the city between January 7 and 10 to spread awareness on water pollution.
January 6th, 2011 | Info Guide | Read More

Soldiers will receive tilgul from the city this Sankranti

Indian Express: Soldiers guarding the country will receive tilgul from the city this sankranti. City- based Sainik Mitra Parivar has collected tilgul and greeting cards that would be sent to the soldiers serving on the borders. The tilgul has been prepared by around 20 NGOs and the greetings have been...
January 5th, 2011 | Info Guide | Read More

Civic body to build 4-D theatre at a cost of Rs 2 crore

Times of India: Get ready for the first-of-its-kind 3- and 4-dimensional entertainment in the city, that too at a municipal garden, as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is working on a project to construct a 3-D and 4-D theatre at the Yashwantrao Chavan garden in Shivdarshan near Sahakarnagar.
January 4th, 2011 | Info Guide | Read More

Bandh effects roadside vendors most

Indian Express: Rekha Nalawade (45) lands up at Mandai — city’s biggest retail vegetable market — around 8 in the morning. She comes from Wadgaon-Maval, travelling a distance 50 km to reach Mandai. Every day, she sells over 100 flowers that fetch her around Rs 400. But Tuesday was not so good for...
December 29th, 2010 | Info Guide | Read More

National Institute of Naturopathy completes 25 years of existence

Indian Express: Having completed 25 years, the National Institute of Naturopathy has a string of activities planned to further transform the way ‘healing through nature’ is perceived.
December 28th, 2010 | Info Guide | Read More

Pune at a glance in 2010

As the year comes to an end, we at the Punekar rewind time and glance at events that unnerved Punekars as well as gave them a reason to smile in 2010. Read on… German Bakery Blast: 13th February’10 Terror stuck German Bakery, a popular joint in Pune on the eve of 13th February. The entire Koregaon...
December 27th, 2010 | Info Guide | Read More

City’s IT innovation expertise will drive growth

Times of India: City-based entrepreneurs, aided by talent and coexistence of the old and new economy businesses, will see Pune claim a major share in India’s advances in information technology in the new year.
December 27th, 2010 | Info Guide | Read More

Citizens rush to jewellery stores on the occasion of Gurupushyayoga

Times of India: Yellow sapphire or pukhraj, the stone associated with prosperity and well-being, flew off the shelves at jewellery stores amidst a host of other precious gemstones, as Puneites rushed to make their purchases on the auspicious occasion of Gurupushyayoga.
December 24th, 2010 | Info Guide | Read More
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