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PUNE: In a world increasingly driven by chips powering everything from electric vehicles to artificial intelligence, young engineers have an unprecedented opportunity to be at the heart of the semiconductor revolution. But thriving in this fast-evolving field, experts say, requires more than technical skills — it demands continuous learning, adaptability, and a mindset tuned to…

PUNE: Fear and fury gripped Pimparkhed village in Shirur tehsil on Sunday afternoon after a 13-year-old boy was mauled to death by a leopard. It was the fourth such fatal attack in the village in five months.The enraged villagers later set ablaze a patrolling vehicle of the Junnar forest division, accusing the forest department of…

Pune: Discarding a carton after enjoying a refreshing beverage is rarely followed by the epiphany that it could be repurposed to fuel education for the next generation.But that is exactly what a city-based enterprise is trying to do. So far, the effort has led to recycling of close to 1 tonne of various cartons to…

Pune: It has been a year since Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) jointly spent upwards of Rs30 crore to build the third bridge that connects Aundh Road to Sangvi in Oct 2024.Now, the same bridge has already been shut by to “beautify” it at an additional cost of around…

Pune: Commuters in the city frequently using aggregator cab services claim that misbehaviour and fleecing by drivers is rapidly rising, especially due to the lack of promised action taken by authorities against malpractices. In a recent incident on Oct 27, an elderly couple, who had booked an Uber cab from Wakad to Warje, said they…

Pune: Several city areas, including Pashan, Hadapsar, Mundhwa, Wakad and others, continue to grapple with chronic garbage dumping and open burning despite the availability of daily waste collection services offered by SWaCH and PMC. According to many residents of these localities, some people are avoiding the Rs100 monthly fee for doorstep waste collection and instead…

Pune: Three young men died after their speeding car crashed into a pillar of Pune Metro’s Bund Garden station around 4.30am on Sunday.Somwar Peth resident Yash Bhandari (23) and Pimpri resident Om Bhandari (23), both engineers with private firms and cousins, died on the spot. The third victim, Khushwant Tekwani (20), an engineering student hailing…

Pune: The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB), Pune, on Sunday arrested a police sub-inspector attached to the economic offences wing (EOW) of the Pimpri Chinchwad police while accepting a bribe of Rs 46.5 lakh from a lawyer to help his client in a cheating case registered against the client.The PSI, Pramod Chintamani (35), demanded a bribe…

Pune: The Sant Tukaramnagar police on Saturday arrested two women on the charge of beating up a police constable and abusing an officer when they were summoned to the police station for questioning regarding a forced marriage complaint on Friday. The daughter of one of the two women had earlier lodged a complaint against her…

Pune: Bank of Maharashtra has reduced its marginal cost-based lending rates (MCLR) by 20 to 25 basis points (bps) on some shorter-term loans.With this, the bank’s MCLR will be in the range of 7.95% to 8.85%. The bank reduced the MCLR on the overnight lending rate by 25 bps to 7.95%, while those for one-month…