Pune: When Milan-based singer and composer Naima Farao steps onto the stage in Pune this weekend, she brings with her a body of work shaped as much by looking as by listening. Farao, trained across music and visual arts, sees creativity as an ongoing process of observation, listening, and response to the world around her.“I…
Pune: A private veterinary clinic in the city successfully performed a minimally invasive procedure — cathlab-guided embolisation — on a 13-year-old critically ill male Labrador last month to save its life when conventional surgery posed a high risk of fatal bleeding.Pet of a Pune-based couple, the Labrador was suffering from severe anaemia, critically low platelet…
Pune: City MLAs have also hit the streets in the last phase of campaigning for the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) polls, with the intention to consolidate a hold in their constituencies.Out of the eight assembly segments in Pune, the BJP has six MLAs — Kothrud, Shivajinagar, Kasba Peth, Parvati, Pune Cantonment and Khadakwasla, while the…
Pune: A team of scientists from the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, and Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) has developed a new technology, PhotonSync, that enables conventional telecom optical fibre to function as a quantum-precision communication channel over distances exceeding 1,000km.Beyond its scientific significance, the breakthrough has major strategic and defence…
Thanos, Tony Stark, John Wick jump into Maharastra civic poll race (AI image) PUNE: Politicians are in canvassing mode on ground, while a parallel campaign has gathered momentum on social media. In this version, candidates arrive as AI-generated fictional characters, speak fluent Marathi and navigate ward-level politics with ease.Satire accounts have been posting AI-generated reels…
Pune: Cabinet minister and senior BJP member Chandrakant Patil on Monday expressed strong confidence in BJP-Shiv Sena alliance emerging victorious in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election, with BJP alone winning around 90 seats and Sena securing about 40. Patil, who has been assigned responsibility for western Maharashtra by his party, said Mahayuti partners would…
Pune: The Chatushrungi police late on Sunday night registered a case against seven people, including a recently recruited domestic help, on charges of criminal breach of trust and dacoity at dismissed IAS probationer Puja Khedkar’s bungalow in National Society on Baner Road late on Saturday night.Senior police inspector Uttam Bhajnavale of the Chatushrungi police said…
Pune: An employee (43) of a prominent real estate developer in the city lost over Rs46 lakh to cybercrooks between Oct and Nov last year.The victim, a resident of Wagholi, transferred Rs46.33 lakh to different bank account numbers of scamsters after the latter assured him of good profit on investments in commodity and century markets….
Pune: Public transport provider PMPML is likely to receive an infusion of 600 to 700 buses by the end of April this year, far less than 2,500 new buses promised by city MP Murlidhar Mohol last week, officials said.“While it is a fact that 2,500 buses are in the pipeline, the entire lot will not…
Pune: With the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections just two days away, the Wanowrie Residents Forum (WRF) has released a comprehensive charter of civic priorities for Ward 18. Compiled through extensive feedback from housing societies and neighborhood groups, the charter reflected a growing demand for accountable governance and time-bound results from elected representatives and civic…
