Новости за 07.10.2015

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) council has decided to waive fees for physically challenged students.

A 77-year-old man died as a result of the Jain practice of Santhara here on Monday.

The Union government’s new guidelines to ease construction permission norms is likely to boost the realty sector in Pune.

Researchers have designed a specialised catheter for fixing holes in the heart using a biodegradable adhesive and patch, eliminating the need for open heart surgery.

Teenage girls who compulsively text are more likely, than their male counterparts, do worse academically, scientists have found.

Bollywood actor Salman Khan is known to effortlessly deal with on-screen villains, however, in real life, he had to deal with a painful nerve condition called trigeminal neuralgia in 2011.

Nearly 200-years-ago, Paris-based naturalist Tschudi described a new species of frog from the Malabar region in India that secreted foul-smelling fluids when touched. It was believed that the frog is found all over the Indian peninsula, but recently city-based researchers have found that the frog found outside the Malabar region is a different species altogether.

Nearly 200-years-ago, Paris-based naturalist Tschudi described a new species of frog from the Malabar region in India that secreted foul-smelling fluids when touched. It was believed that the frog is found all over the Indian peninsula, but recently city-based researchers have found that the frog found outside the Malabar region is a different species altogether.

Online registration (e-registration) of leave and licence agreements is fast catching up in the state. Of 2.49 lakh registrations recorded here so far, about 18,137 (7.28%) were done online with Pune occupying the top slot with 13,583 (19.66%) of such registrations.

At least 19 new express trains, including two from Pune, would chug on tracks before March 31 next year.

The Pune police have filed cases of violating noise pollution norms against three Ganapati mandals and issued show-cause notices to 67 other mandals seeking an explanation as to why action should not be taken against them for not following the Supreme Court guidelines.

More people out on the roads late in the night were robbed in the city on Sunday night. Cash and valuables totally worth Rs 45,000 were robbed in three cases in Kothrud, Sinhagad and Wakad.

The standing committee meeting of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) was adjourned on Tuesday after corporators raised questions over the austerity measures adopted by the civic administration to save public money.

Many lives were altered on Monday night when Suryakant Kashinath Pokharkar (35) entered the bus-only lane on his two-wheeler from the wrong side on Sangamwadi’s Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) corridor.

Showing the way to her fellow citizens, Durgawati Shendge (54), donated Rs 25,000 which she had saved for her husband’s shradh to Naam Foundation recently. The foundation, set up by actors Nana Patekar and Makrand Anaspure, extends monetary help to the families of drought-hit farmers.

The small causes court in Shivajinagar on Tuesday cancelled the membership of Vijay Deshmukh, a Shiv Sena corporator of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) from Hadapsar.

City schools not following norms has led to action against one and protests at another.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench here has said that civic vehicles transporting garbage to the landfill sites at Uruli Devachi and Phursungi shall not be obstructed till it decides on a pending application on the issue after two weeks.

A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here has directed the owner of a jeep and its insurer to jointly pay Rs 22.90 lakh as compensation to a woman for the death of her 27-year-old son in a road accident at Retwadi in Khed taluka on November 15, 2012.

WRD Begins Work Under National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project