The Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd (PSCDCL) has announced the winners of ‘Make your City Smart Contest — Reimagining Sinhagad Road’ in Pune city which was held as per the Union government’s directions to hold a contest for co-creation of civic infrastructure and area-based development through consultation with residents. The PSCDCL had launched the contest for redesigning streets in Read More

The Maharashtra government is all set to draft a new agriculture policy which will take into account the new challenges in the field. Interacting with the media in Pune on Thursday, Agriculture Minister Pandurang Fundkar said the state planned to set up a seed hub for production of seeds in the state. “The field of agriculture has many challenges before Read More

Pune-based Divyanshu Ganatra had earlier this year become the first visually-challenged person in India to paraglide and now he aims to become the first such person to go tandem cycling on the difficult terrain of the Himalayas. Along with software professional Gagan Grover, Ganatra is set to start a 550-km trail from Manali to Khardungla on Saturday. They will have Read More

Watching the Newshour on Times Now last night, I got the impression I was watching an episode of Tuesday Night Smackdown. Sure there were some similarities. The Newshour and Arnab Goswami are to news what the WWE and Vince McMahon are to sport. There’s clearly some sort of connection, but its mostly loud yelling more than anything. Like the WWE, Read More

PV Sindhu’s win is being celebrated across the country and justifiably so. She won a silver medal for the country at the Rio Olympics at a time when our medal tally read just one, thanks to wrestler Sakshi Malik’s bronze. Though, two medals out a contingent of 119 may not be much to boast if we look at the bigger Read More

Deepika Padukone is not just India’s top-paid actress, she is also among the top 10 highest-paid actresses in the world, according to Forbes. The actress is the only Indian on the list with earnings of $10 million. The list is headlined by Jennifer Lawrence, with total earnings of $46 million. The one Bollywood star we expected to see on the Read More

In its current form, the recent law to increase maternity leave in the private sector to six months will end up being counter-productive and may actually result in a setback to equality in the work place. This law abdicates the responsibilities of government, pushing it onto the shoulders of the private sector. Rather than simplifying labor laws, this adds yet Read More

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced today that Sakshi Malik, India’s bronze medalist at the Rio Olympics, will be the brand ambassador of the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign in the state. The programme aims to empower the girl child and reduce rates of female foeticide in districts with low child sex ratio. Haryana particularly is a state that Read More

Australian media on Tuesday reported that sensitive data concerning India’s Scorpene Submarine has been leaked, posing serious threat to the Indian Navy’s stealth weapons. The data, reportedly running into over 22, 000 pages, has been marked ‘Restricted Scorpene India’. The Indian Express has not accessed the data. The documents ­belong to DCNS – the company that is building India’s Scorpene Submarines. Read More

A SPECIAL Bangla radio service, first launched in the wake of the Bangladesh Liberation Movement in 1971 and discontinued in 2010, was re-launched by President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday. The Akashvani Maitree channel for Bengali listeners and its website would provide a platform for blending content both from India and Bangladesh. “Akashvani Maitree and its multimedia website is a unique Read More