Judicial magistrate (first class) AK Mandavgade on Tuesday remanded University of Pune’s (UoP) assistant registrar MS Gaikwad (53) of Sus Road in police custody till Saturday.

The Chatuhshrungi police had arrested Gaikwad and produced him in the court on Tuesday. They also arrested section officer of the administration department RH Attar of Sangamner.

The university had registered a First Information Report (FIR) with the Chatuhshrungi police on Monday in connection with the recruitment examination for class III and class IV non-teaching posts on February 14.

Menon and Menon Ltd gets the Laxmanrao Kirloskar Best Foundry of the Year Award

Menon and Menon Ltd, a city-based company, has won the Laxmanrao Kirloskar Best Foundry of the Year Award from the Institute of Indian Foundrymen for 2008.

Company general manager (foundry) Ramesh Sabnis received the award at a function in Kolkata on February 13.

The company had won the award in 1998 also. Various criteria were considered for the award including the best practices and excellence in production, productivity, energy saving, quality systems, HRD promotion, export promotion and innovative techniques used on the shop floor.

Companies from varied mix of business bag tata nen awards; 30 city firms fail to make it to the final list

After over six months of campaigning, the winners of the Tata National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN) awards were announced on February 27 in Mumbai.

Although 30 companies from Pune were amongst the 600-odd short-listed initially, none of them could make it to the final list.

The Tata NEN Hottest Start-ups Awards is a people's choice awards for new start-ups announced in 2008. It attracted around 600 nominations covering a wide range of sectors and geographies with start-ups from over 40 cities covering nearly 20 industry segments, making it India's largest start-up contest.

Special focus on housing project for MIG and LIG

The Pimpri-Chinchwad New Township Development Authority (PCNTDA) on Friday presented a Rs678.12 crore budget for 2009-10 to Pune divisional commissioner Dilip Band. PCNTDA chief executive officer Suhas Divase presented the budget.

A special focus of the budget is the proposed housing project for middle income group (MIG) and low income group (LIG) on a public- private-partnership (PPP) basis in sector 12 on 58 hectares of land. Transforming nallas into green zones, foot overbridge at Akurdi railway station, eco-friendly office for PCNTDA, sports training centres and theme parks for children are the other features of the budget.

Over 200-odd representatives of housing societies vent their ire against them

Officials of the state co-operative department, particularly those from the stamp duty and registration office, came under a scathing attack from several representatives of the housing societies who blamed them for the ills afflicting the poor functioning of co-operative housing societies in the city.

A majority of the representatives belonging to over 200-odd residential co-operative societies vented their ire against the co-operative department, accusing its officials of complete non co-operation and lethargy, at the co-operative housing society meet.

The NCP leader was addressing a seminar organised by IsquareIT

Rajya Sabha member and NCP leader Supriya Sule on Friday stressed the need for women's empowerment to achieve inclusive development in the truest sense.

Sule was delivering a lecture on 'Women Prowess' at a seminar organised by the International Institute of Information Technology (IsquareIT) as part of the International Women's Day celebrations on its Hinjewadi campus.