Pune: It has been a year since Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) jointly spent upwards of Rs30 crore to build the third bridge that connects Aundh Road to Sangvi in Oct 2024.Now, the same bridge has already been shut by to “beautify” it at an additional cost of around…
Mumbai:The Bombay High Court rejected the anticipatory bail application of UK based businessman who is accused of rape, on the grounds that he has been declared an absconder and that a proclamation had already been issued, observing that an absconding accused cannot ordinarily claim anticipatory bail.Justice Madhav J. Jamdar, while hearing anticipatory bail application of…
New Delhi: As smog thickens all over the city, its parks, once dotted with children, mostly stand eerily quiet. Parents are increasingly pulling their children indoors, fearing that the toxic smog might do them lasting harm.The air quality index has been hovering in the poor-very poor categories for quite some time and may even turn…
Pune: Commuters in the city frequently using aggregator cab services claim that misbehaviour and fleecing by drivers is rapidly rising, especially due to the lack of promised action taken by authorities against malpractices. In a recent incident on Oct 27, an elderly couple, who had booked an Uber cab from Wakad to Warje, said they…
Mumbai: Over 50% of private unaided institutions offering professional courses in the state are yet to submit their fee revision proposals to the Fee Regulatory Authority (FRA), even as the deadline ended on Oct 31. Some of the colleges claimed they were unable to process the proposals due to exams and Diwali vacation.While FRA had…
New Delhi: A new study by researchers from IIT Delhi and an international university found that today’s leading AI models perform well on simple tasks but struggle with the complex reasoning needed for autonomous scientific research.The study, titled “Probing the Limitations of Multimodal Language Models for Chemistry and Materials Research,” reveals that while vision-language models…
Pune: Several city areas, including Pashan, Hadapsar, Mundhwa, Wakad and others, continue to grapple with chronic garbage dumping and open burning despite the availability of daily waste collection services offered by SWaCH and PMC. According to many residents of these localities, some people are avoiding the Rs100 monthly fee for doorstep waste collection and instead…
Mumbai: Come 2026, Japan’s Globis University will plant its flag in BKC, Mumbai—its seventh hub in the world and first in India. Here, students can dip their toes into management through a pre-MBA, stack credentials with a nano-MBA, ease into a part-time programme, or opt for the full-fledged English MBA in Tokyo.For Globis, this isn’t…
New Delhi: Police arrested an MCD contractual staffer on Oct 30 for allegedly cheating people by promising them free treatment under EWS quota at private hospitals. Posing as an employee at the CM’s office, Sonu, 27, used forged letters to defraud relatives of poor patients. His plans unraveled when a hospital in west Delhi’s Punjabi…
Mumbai: Starting today, the strike called by the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) will hamper non-emergency services at govt hospitals across the state. Doctors believe their demand for an impartial probe into a colleague’s suicide in Phaltan—following her allegation that she was raped by a police official—remains unmet.This strike will also affect services at…
