PUNE: It is the beginning of a new era for orthopaedic surgeons who are looking at VR headsets and AI to plan their shoulder surgeries. Shoulder surgeries, which are on the rise, according to doctors, are tricky because of high mobility of the joint.Over 300 shoulder surgeons, including more than 50 from abroad, converged in…
PUNE: India’s education landscape has entered a new moment, and it feels different from the familiar race for marks and competitive exams. Across major cities and emerging hubs, parents are discovering campuses that look and feel like the great British schools they once imagined only in novels or travel brochures.Parent Sreelatha Chandra said she was…
Pune: The Phursungi police on Friday registered a case of extortion against two reporters from an online news portal for allegedly threatening and demanding Rs 10 lakh from the owner of an edible oil company.According to police, the reporters threatened the businessman on Feb 25 and 26. The 24-year-old company owner, a resident of Ambegaon,…
Pune: The state govt would spend Rs1,100 crore to enhance the power infrastructureof the district. The assurance about improvementin the electricity supply network came from the govt on Saturday after some MLAs from Pune complained in the assembly about frequent power outages causing inconvenience and financial losses. BJP MLA from Bhosari Mahesh Landge raised the…
Pune: The Vishrambaug police have registered a case of cheating and forgery against five pharmacy shops located in Sadashiv Peth, Kolhapur and Mumbai for allegedly selling counterfeit drugs. Inspector Arun Ghodke of Vishrambaug police said, “FDA inspector Krutika Jadhav (46) lodged a complaint with us after receiving the lab test reports of these drugs.” Ghodke…
Pune: The Bombay HC quashed and set aside a Pune special court’s order that rejected the anticipatory bail of an accused in a case under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and relegated the matter back to it for a fresh decision based on merits. “Since the special court has not decided the application by…
Pune: A Baramati sessions court convicted and sentenced Mayur Gorakh Gaikwad, a casual worker from Yavat, to life imprisonment for murdering his wife, Pramila, on Jan 18, 2014, and attempting to pass it off as suicide, holding that the death was not a case of hanging but “a case of throttling or ligature strangulation”. Additional…
Pune: India will have to trade off autonomy for efficiency if it relies entirely on borrowed algorithms for using artificial intelligence, said former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao on Saturday.“Technological sovereignty is not given. It has to be built. AI, semiconductor fabrication, telecom architecture, space and cybersecurity capabilities are not commercial luxuries but are sovereignty platforms….
Indian rowing began a new chapter with the successful conduct of the first Beach Sprint National championships at Dona Paula in Goa on Saturday (Feb 28, 2026).Services and Maharashtra topped the honours board with a gold and silver each while Karnataka was third with a gold and bronze. Andaman & Nicobar and Navy, too, bagged…
Pune: The Maharashtra govt is likely to approach the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking deferment of the proposed special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls scheduled from April, citing an overlap with the first phase of Census 2027, senior state govt sources told TOI.Last week, the ECI wrote to chief electoral officers of 22…
