Mihir Paramane, Manoj G. and Sangeeta Kadam from Pune have jointly won in the Virtual Velocity Treasure Hunt - an event organized by Acer India in collaboration with Intel. Each of them has been awarded a sleek Acer Aspire 4710 notebook powered by Intel Centrino Duo technology.

As Nadir Shaikh, executive chef, Le Meridien, showed the secrets of some delicious recipes, food lovers were held spellbound. The visitors loved the spread and the ambience; and by the time it ended, everyone was left with a lovely taste in their mouths.

Pune, January 16 The Regional Labour Commissionerate in Pune finds itself short-staffed, with its four employees grappling to deal with labour dispute cases from across eight districts of Maharashtra. The repeated requests for more personnel have yielded no results.

Government holidays mean an additional few hours to attempt finishing work in the regional labour commissioner’s office at Shankarsheth Road and Makar Sankranti that fell on Tuesday saw commissioner N H Ahmad in his office poring through bulky files and dictating a case application.

PUNE: Road accidents, on an average, claim at least three lives every day in Pune district, and 1,170 people were killed under the Pune rural police and Pune city police jurisdictions in 2007.

Consider this. A total of 796 people lost their lives in 3,616 mishaps in the jurisdiction of the Pune rural police last year. The number of fatal accidents was 759 in the 3,609 accidents reported in 2006 in rural areas. Of these, around 70 per cent were serious accidents where victims received severe injuries.

In line with its recent expansion into the Gujarat market and having consolidated its market position in Mumbai, DNA, the fastest growing newspaper has now launched in Pune.

K U Rao, CEO, DNA, says "In line with strategy to become the dominant player of Western India, DNA has expanded to Pune after Gujarat and in markets where we operate, we intend to be the leader both in circulation and revenue."

Rao further states that the overall target is to make DNA a Rs 1000 crore company by 2011 and the Pune edition would give around 10 percent of that number.

Pune, 14th January 2008: The countdown has begun for International School of Business Media (ISB&M) for its annual inter-collegiate fest CRESCENDO’08 in Pune.

Crescendo 08, an annual cultural fiesta of ISB&M is a three-day fun filled event that begins on the January 18, 2007 at the New Campus premises at Taluka Road and the second day events also follow in the college premises.

Mumbai: Can a partnership between the industry and the academia help in retaining quality talent? A few players in the pharma industry seem to think so. They have found the educational route effective to meet the challenge of talent crunch, especially in research and development (R&D).

Only a year ago, firms ranging from Orchid to Ranbaxy expressed concerns over attrition and rising salaries, especially in R&D, at a Confederation of Indian Industry's pharma summit,

A year later, at the same summit, there was not even a mere mention of these problems.

Pune: Tata Motors, India's largest vehicle maker, is considering the creation of independent production hubs that will focus on making different vehicles at different locations.The company has a market share of 31.2% in the multi-utility vehicles segment and 6.4% in the luxury car segment. Worldwide it is ranked among the top ten in the manufacture of vehicles in the range of 5-15 tonnes. It manufactures heavy commercial vehicles (HCV), light commercial vehicles (LCV), passenger cars and multi-utility vehicles.

PUNE: Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh’s recent ruling restricting the grant of Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) for the Parvati hill plot to four per cent instead of the earlier 100 per cent has sent "green plot" owners in the city into a tizzy. This move opens the door to acquisition of 978.54 hectares of privately-owned hill land in Pune at a throwaway price.

The CM’s decision overrules the state advocate general’s opinion and surprises many, particularly since a writ petition on the quantum of TDR to be granted to green plot owners is pending before the Bombay HC.

PUNE: Come Valentine’s Day many hearts will speak with red roses. And it will be a big business for rose growers and exporters. The export of roses for the coming Valentine’s Day (February 14) is expected to be about Rs 25 crore, estimated to be a 20% rise over last year.

Corporate houses in the floriculture business in Pune and Bangalore, the country’s major rose growing areas, are gearing up to export lakhs of roses to world markets.