Pune: Pervez Mody, the Mumbai-born pianist based in Germany, returned to Pune on Sunday evening, treating Camp’s Mazda Hall to a soundscape that felt at once vast and intimate. He enraptured the audience with Beethoven’s stormy Tempest Sonata, Grieg’s delicate Lyric Pieces, Liszt’s towering Sonata in B minor, and the playful rhythms of Gottschalk’s Le…
Pune: Women and child development (WCD) commissioner Nayana Gunde has called on all govt, semi-govt, and private establishments to ensure strict and immediate implementation of the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Act.She said enforcement of the Act would be intensified across the state as gaps in compliance continue to surface, particularly in smaller organisations and…
PUNE: The State Election Commission (SEC) has halted the election process in several municipal councils and nagar panchayats across the state. This decision came after it was discovered that Returning Officers (ROs) illegally allotted election symbols to candidates whose appeals against nomination scrutiny were still pending, decided late, or not heard at all by district…
Pune: Hadapsar police registered a case of wrongful restraint against a woman, a resident of Shewalwadi, for not allowing a PMPML bus to move out of the Shewalwadi bus depot around 7.30am on Friday.Bus conductor Manohar Pisal (46) lodged a complaint with the police later in the day. The FIR stated that she claimed the…
Pune: Last week, Bengaluru’s Ravi Mohan took an Uber cab from the Pune railway station to Hinjewadi Phase 3. He claimed that while the fare in the application reflected Rs360, the cabbie charged him Rs500.“The driver argued that the fare was Rs25 per km. If what he says is true, why was the fare in…
Pune: BJP state president Ravindra Chavan on Saturday said the person(s) at number two did not have any value without naming deputy chief ministers Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde, intensifying the battle for dominance within Mahayuti in the last leg of campaign for the first phase of local body polls. Chavan made the remark while…
Pune: For the four meritorious cadets of the 149th course of the National Defence Academy (NDA), who stood at the convocation on Saturday as polished officers-in-the-making, it was a moment to cherish as they were the first in the last decade to have achieved the unachievable.Unlike their peers, who were from Sainik schools and defence…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has taken note of the “significant fluctuations in sound intensity” and consistent violations of permissible noise limits during the Ganesh Chaturthi festivities in the city, but has expressed satisfaction over the actions taken by authorities.The bench of justice Dinesh Kumar Singh and expert member Dr Sujit…
Pune: Union Public Service Commission chairman Ajay Kumar on Saturday called upon the passing out cadets of the National Defence Academy (NDA) to step into the service as scholar-warriors, saying leaders were forged not only in steel and stamina but in intellect, clarity and moral conviction.The Galwan Valley clash was not just a test of…
Pune: External affairs ministry secretary Periasamy Kumaran on Saturday said India’s ties with the United States had undergone a structural transformation, marked by deeper engagement while preserving autonomy. He described the relationship with China as most complex bilateral challenge.“The partnership today is robust yet deliberately non-aligned, a critical nuance,” Kumaran said during his address at…
