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Pune News: An obligation made in Singur is being fulfilled in Pune. Months after shifting the Nano plant out of Singur, Tata Motors has resumed the training of 180 youths it had selected from the families whose land the West Bengal Government had acquired for the project.

Pune News: UT Consumer Forum has directed Indian Institute of E-Business Management, Pune, to refund course fee of Rs 65,918 within 30 days
along with Rs 2,000 as litigation expenses to Janak Arora of Mandi Gobindgarh. Arora?s daughter Sabina got admission in master of e-business administration in March 2007. Accordingly, she joined the course in July 2007 but owing to her illness, she had to leave the institution in September 2007. She was advised complete bed rest and avoidance of studies, the complaint stated.

Pune News: According to a report in the Financial Chronicle, UB Group is in the process of introducing a winotherapy and spa venture. The group has initiated talks with several leading hotel chains to operate the wine resort to be set up in Baramati, Pune. The group has already launched premium wines under its Four Seasons unit and the homegrown Zinzi brand.

Pune News: Mangalorean Aaron D'Souza bagged bronze medal in the men's 200m butterly event at the third edition of the Commonwealth Youth Games being held at the Shiv Chhatrapati sports City, Balewadi in the city, on Friday October 17. In fact, Aaron was in the second position till the first 100 metres of the event, before he was pushed out of the silver medal contention by Dan Vickers of England and hence, had to be content with the bronze.

Pune News: Sporadic incidents of stone pelting at municipal and private buses were reported here on Tuesday morning following the arrest of MNS chief Raj Thackeray in Ratnagiri. In Kothrud area, some alleged MNS activists damaged a company's bus that was taking its employees to workplace.

Pune News: Mangalorean Aaron D'Souza bagged bronze medal in the men's 200m butterly event at the third edition of the Commonwealth Youth Games being held at the Shiv Chhatrapati sports City, Balewadi in the city, on Friday October 17. In fact, Aaron was in the second position till the first 100 metres of the event, before he was pushed out of the silver medal contention by Dan Vickers of England and hence, had to be content with the bronze.

Pune News: The University of Pune (UoP) and semiconductor giant Intel India on Monday announced a joint initiative in order to create a specialised workforce in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) layout design, required by the semiconductor industry. The programme aims at tapping talented postgraduate and undergraduate science students and generating awareness about the opportunities that exist for basic science passouts, in specialised fields like VLSI design.

Pune News: Satyam Computers Services Ltd a country's fourth largest IT solution provider announce opening of its new facility in Pune which will accommodate 4,750 associates.

Pune Property News: In a bid to support the growing demand for hotel rooms around India, Kolkata-based Hotel Hindustan International (HHI) Group of Hotels is starting its properties in Goa and Pune. The group has also earmarked a few tier II cities, which need rooms for the business segment, to build three and four-star business hotels. The property in Goa will be a five-star deluxe one, while the Pune property will be a boutique hotel.

Pune  News: The alliance between the NCP and the BJP, both part of the Pune Pattern, in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) holds for now as senior leaders of both the parties have refrained from formally announcing the parting of ways. “I was out of station and am yet to discuss the political developments that took place in the city over the past few days with the local unit of party.The issue is local and should be resolved here itself,” said Guardian Minister Ajit Pawar, who was instrumental in forming the alliance of NCP and saffron parties for the local civic body.

Pune  News: Mumbai (PTI): As many as 70 per cent voters exercised their franchise for the Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad Municipal Corporation elections held here on Sunday. A state election office press release issued here today said that in the Bhor Municipal Council election in Pune district, the voters turn out was 80 per cent. The counting of votes for Bhor Municipal Council will take place tomorrow. The election for seven wards in Sangli-Miraj-Kupwad will take place on June 30.

Pune  News: Pune-based software services companies are evincing keen interest in setting up centres in the North-eastern city of Dalian, which is fast emerging as a top Chinese hub for IT firms. Some IT companies from Pune have shown interest in setting up units in Dalian, where there is no shortage of skilled manpower for the sector, Software Exporters' Association of Pune (SEAP) President Nitin Deshpande said.

Pune  News: Fiat India Automobiles will invest Rs. 2,341 crore more at its existing Ranjangaon facility in Pune to ramp up its capacity. With this investment, the company is taking the overall investment in Pune to Rs. 4,020 crore. Fiat India is a 50:50 joint venture between Tata Motors and Fiat Group Automobiles.

Pune Property  News: The Salisbury Park land controversy continues to generate heat for the second week with rumour mills abuzz that the sale of the Rs 250-crore, 24.31-acre land belonging to India Financial Association (IFA) of the Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) will be registered on Monday. But, the chairman of IFA, Ronn Watt told The Indian Express over phone from Bangalore that they were not yet ready.

Pune Property  News: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s land acquisition department has created a record of sorts by acquiring as much as 6.15 lakh square meter land in one year (2007-08). This is much more that the 4.76 lakh square metre of land acquired by the civic body during the four-year period (2003-2007) before that. In terms of the number of properties acquired, 159 were acquired in the four-year period and 421 in 2007-08.

Pune  News: The sixth Pune international film festival (Piff) will kick off at Ganesh Kala Krida Rangmanch on January 10 in the presence of celebrities from the world of cinema. A statement released on Tuesday by the Piff organising committee said that registration for the mega event will start from January 3. The venues are E-Square, Inox, Ganesh Kala Kreeda Rangmanch and National Film Archives of India (NFAI).

Pune  News: Twenty-year-old Devi Shingade, who was pregnant, and her husband Nilesh (27) were found dead under mysterious circumstances in their house at Kharalwadi in Pimpri on early Monday morning. Prima facie the Pimpri police suspect it to be a case of suicide. Nilesh's father, Narayan and his brother Shrinivas rushed them to a nearby private nursing home, which referred the case to Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH). The authorities at YCMH pronounced the couple as 'brought dead'.

Pune  News: Police is all set to question Wipro BPO officials to detail the sequence of events leading to rape and murder of Jyotikumari Choudhary, an employee of the firm. The investigating officers would be drafting questions in consultation with legal advisers to fix the responsibility for the alleged negligence shown by the company officials, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Vishwas Nangre Patil said.

Pune  News: After drugs and rock ’n’ roll, sex has caught the eye of the police in Pune. The Crime Branch last week unearthed a major Internet-based sex racket of countrywide proportions involving models-turned-television actresses — three were arrested. The action followed last month’s arrest of two Mumbai-based models and a tout from the film industry, and the detention earlier in...

Pune  News: Students of art and IT who have an eye for animation can have a peek into what the field has in store for them. The Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA), the apex body of industries in the Pune region, will organise an animation workshop in Pune, where students can get a chance to interact with the companies in gaming and animation industry.

Pune  News: The prefix, Hamara, is threatening go out of the lives of a majority of about 2,730 Bajaj employees at the automobile major’s Pune production facility at Akurdi, set up in 1960. While the move to stop two-wheeler production at the Pune plant has not come as a surprise, what has stunned them is the manner in which Rajiv Bajaj, managing director, Bajaj Auto Ltd (BAL) has gone about it — by telling them that they can continue to draw salary for five-and-a-half days a week without bothering to come to work, starting September 1.

Pune  News: Actor Sanjay Dutt was today shifted from the Arthur Road Jail here to Yerwada Jail near Pune after he withdrew his application to be kept in a prison in this city. Dutt, given a six-year jail term in the 1993 blasts case on Tuesday, withdrew his plea in the special TADA court of Judge P D Kode after authorities submitted a report that cited several reasons why he could not be kept at Arthur Road Jail,...