Pune: Will fly or won’t fly — flyers are perplexed about their future travel plans with IndiGo flights still being cancelled.Camp’s working professional Kanishka Agarwal is worried about his mid-January IndiGo flight to Bengaluru, booked in November. “Pune airport posts information about cancelled flights on its social media handle a day before the scheduled departure…
Pune: The city’s huge day-night temperature swing is fuelling a sharp rise in pneumonia and bronchitis, medical practitioners told TOI on Saturday. Most cases last winter involved common cold and cough.Dr Rajeev Adkar, pulmonologist at Ace Hospital, said, “We are seeing patients with upper respiratory infections, mostly viral. So far, we haven’t encountered pneumonia cases,…
Pune: The entire double-decker flyover near Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) will be fully opened to vehicular traffic on Jan 15, Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) commissioner Yogesh Mhase told TOI on Saturday. The announcement followed CM Devendra Fadnavis’ recent direction to officials to open the structure for public use immediately after completion, without…
Pune: American saxophonist George Brooks and sitarist Krishna Bhatt brought two worlds together with raga Charukeshi at Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav on Thursday.“Krishna and I are not showing off or playing flashy things. We are trying to create beautiful sounds together, to find harmony. We listen to each other, we support each other, we appreciate…
Pune: Driven by high vehicle density, Mumbai recorded the highest road traffic carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions per km of road length among major Indian cities, while metros such as Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune also showed high levels of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) emissions from road transport, according to a new…
Pune: Bengaluru vocalist Siddharth Belmannu captivated listeners from the very first alaap in the afternoon raga Bhimpalasi on the fourth day of Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav at Maharashtriya Mandal grounds in Mukundnagar on Saturday.His powerful yet tender voice evoked an intimate plea to the almighty through the vilambit ektaal bandish (Ab to badi ber /…
Pune: The city aims to earn Unesco’s World Book Capital title for 2027, and every resident must contribute towards achieving it, said higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil.He was speaking at the inaugural function of the third edition of the Pune Book Festival on Saturday at Fergusson College grounds.The Pune Book Festival, organised by…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy CM Ajit Pawar will inaugurate and announce more than 50 projects, including major Pune infrastructure, this Monday, as the state pushes ahead with a flurry of launches before the civic-election announcement.A special event has been scheduled at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch to mark the commencement of these works….
Pune: The Pune divisional commissioner has appointed 52 revenue officers for the smooth conduct of upcoming elections to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC). All these officers are deputy collectors and tehsildars who will work as the returning officers (ROs) and assistant returning officers (AROs) until the end of…
Pune: The office-bearers of Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS will meet on Sunday for informal discussions on seat sharing for the PMC polls despite no clarity on whether MVA would go to elections with or without MNS. Local units of both the parties have decided to go ahead with the seat-sharing talks based on the…
