Parking pangs worsen around PMC HQ amid rush to meet corporators | Pune News

Pune: A parking nightmare has started unfolding around the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Shivajinagar headquarters over the past two weeks, with a swarm of illegally parked vehicles virtually seizing the roads surrounding the old and new PMC buildings, causing severe congestion in the area during peak hours.Vehicular traffic began surging after the civic body resumed full-scale…

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MIT-ADT students protest, block garbage dumping near Mula-Mutha | Pune News

Pune: The garbage crisis in Loni Kalbhor and neighbouring villages along the Pune-Solapur Highway, roughly 20km from the city, intensified on Wednesday after MIT-ADT students blocked trash-laden trucks from entering the illegal dumping ground on the Mula-Mutha riverbed behind the campus through the institute’s gate. The students’ move followed years of administrative inaction, especially after…

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9-year-old defeats “double threat” of cancer and immune deficiency | Pune News

Pune: Doctors at a private hospital in the city have successfully treated a nine-year-old boy battling hyper IgE syndrome (a rare primary immunodeficiency) and Burkitt lymphoma (an aggressive blood cancer).The case presented a clinical dilemma. The boy’s pre-existing immunodeficiency meant his body could not fight infections, yet the aggressive nature of Burkitt lymphoma required intensive…

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Uae Flight Disruption: West Asia conflict: 80 Indira University students among 111 Pune residents flown back from UAE | Pune News

80 students among 111 Pune residents back from Dubai (Uma Kadam/ TOI) PUNE: A total of 111 residents from Pune district, including students stranded in Dubai due to the ongoing US-Israel-Iran military conflict, have safely returned home, the district administration confirmed on Wednesday. Authorities said that 184 residents from Pune were initially stuck in the…

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Stranded flyers relieved to return amid conflict, but high airfares of special flights a source of concern | Pune News

Pune: Flyers desperate to return home from countries in West Asia amid the ongoing conflict are paying exorbitant airfares on flights arranged for them by different airlines. Bibvewadi resident Kiran Oswal and his family, who returned to Mumbai on Wednesday morning from Fujairah near Dubai on a SpiceJet flight, paid Rs41,000 per one-way ticket for…

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