Posted in Current Affairs, Education, Miscellaneous, PuneCity Info at 9:19 pm by PuneTalks
Didn’t you see my right foot?! In the middle of an argument over a minor accident the rickshaw driver claimed he had poked his right foot out to indicate that he was turning right. Pune has around 60-70 thousand three wheeler rickshaws. They are no doubt a very convenient form of taxi service. To many harried customers, rickshaw drivers are rude and indisciplined, but I don’t really find their behavior on the road to be any different than that of private vehicle owners. This is a country where everyone owns a piece of the road, so rules be damned. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs, Education, Miscellaneous, PuneCity Info at 9:11 pm by PuneTalks
New Delhi, Asian Games 1982. I have memories of broad, clean avenues and clean air. When I returned after a long gap in 1999, New Delhi was urban hell. My friend pointed out a particularly busy intersection and said, “that’s the most polluted intersection in Asia”. I went back in 2004, and something strange had happened. Something we Indians are not used to. Pollution had reduced dramatically. Air quality was better. The reason experts tell us, was the conversion of almost the entire public transport fleet (15-20 thousand vehicles by various estimates) of rickshaws, taxis and buses from diesel to CNG (Edit: Compressed Natural Gas). Read more »
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Posted in PuneCity Info at 12:25 pm by PuneTalks
Today, anybody would agree that Pune, the cultural capital of Maharashtra is changing with an acute and rapid momentum. Today, Pune is no more just a cultural capital of Maharashtra, it is one of the forefront thriving IT hubs of the world. Today it is no more just a pensioner’s paradise, it is the enticing abode for all the student community of the world. Today it is no more a just a habitat situated in the valleys of Sahyadri, it is the silicon valley of India. Read more »
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Posted in Current Affairs, PuneCity Info at 6:54 am by The Editor
Kerala is nice and green since there is no industry there; and also because Keralites go to other places(like Pune) and work. So if all of us have to go to Kerala on vacation and want it to be clean and green, we need to ensure that we have sufficient jobs in Pune, for Keralites.
That said(how much weirder can I get), now that we have decided on why we need to have jobs in Pune, we can concentrate on other peripheral issues. Read more »
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Posted in Miscellaneous, PuneCity Info at 6:27 am by PuneTalks
If you are a true-blue Punekar, don’t read this, for I am sure you would have experienced what I am about to describe. If you are not one, do enjoy this gastronomic experience, first in your mind’s eye, and then on your next visit to Pune. Read more »
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Posted in Miscellaneous, PuneCity Info at 12:11 pm by PuneTalks
September 12, 2006. I turn 50. After traversing the length and breadth of the country for almost all my life I’m back in my hometown Pune. I am overcome by nostalgia, for the Pune I once lived in no longer exists. Read more »
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Posted in PuneCity Info at 6:43 am by PuneTalks
Join over 690 people who have supported this Online Campaign to Improve Public Transport in Pune. The details are as under –
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Posted in PuneCity Info at 10:30 am by The Editor
The University of Pune (formerly the University of Poona) is a university located in northwest Pune, India. It has a 400 acre (1.6 km²) campus. It was established on February 10, 1949 and is home to 46 academic departments.
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Posted in PuneCity Info at 3:52 am by PuneTalks
Business is looking up in Pune, and for the realty market, that is great news.
Pune is witnessing an IT boom. Also there have been as many as 128 manufacturing proposals from new medium and large-scale players wanting to set up their operations in Pune. Players like Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, Kanbay, Persistent Systems(PSPL), KPIT are all major players located in Pune. These are again, just a few names.
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Posted in PuneCity Info at 1:06 am by The Editor
Pune(Marathi/Hindi:) pronunciation (help·info), (pronounced “poo-n’-ey” where the “n’” is the hard “N” sound produced by touching the tongue to the palate rather than the back of the front teeth) (in Marathi).
Pune, formerly known as Punavadi (in medieval times) and Poona by the British, is a city located in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Referred to as the “Queen of the Deccan,” Pune is the cultural capital of the Maharashtrians whose native language is Marathi. According to the 2001 census provisional counts, the urban agglomaration around Pune has a population of 4,485,000 in 2005. This figure includes the population of the city of Pimpri-Chinchwad, which is the industrial twin of Pune. Read more »
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