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How a bunch of Mumbai’s fishers kept their businesses afloat amid coronavirus lockdown

The members of Mumbai’s fishing community, the Koli community, have found a sustainable answer to their economic woes brought forth by the lockdown. The lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24, to control the spread of the coronavirus, left many, especially those in the marginalised sectors, without any means to arrange for their daily survival. However, with disruption in the traditional methods of fishing and moving towards sustainability, the fishing community from Mum
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City techie takes his matrimonial quest to a dog-friendly group

When 31-year-oldRamansh Gupta wrote out a post on Facebook seeking matrimony on Friday, the seemingly common activity had an unusual twist — the appeal was being made on an animal welfare forum, looking for a compassionate spouse who has the best interests of the four-pawed in mind, much like him.Tired of multiple rejections just because of his love for dogs, the Vishal Nagar resident’s post expressed the need for a life partner who is open to embracing pets in their wedded life and future. Gupt
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Pune’s air quality is worsening, says Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

The air that Pune breathes is worsening in quality by the day and the need to tackle this phenomenon is quite urgent. Such are the findings of scientists in this field, who have cited that air quality is likely to deteriorate further in coming days.Data with the city-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) has shown that air quality is continuously deteriorating — over 73 days in 2017 were seen when pollutants in the air were more than permissible limits, and this increased to 94 d
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This wrecked helmet is a storyteller

Ahelmet broken into three parts will soon become aprominently displayed at’s research arm in Vadu. The place of honour is being accorded to the damaged headgear on account of theservice it rendered in saving the life of one of the hospital’s employees on Friday, when he met with an accident. The hospital will use the broken pieces to drive home the need for helmets among its staff and visitors.On Friday, Sayaji Pingale, a supervisor with the hospital, was driving from Vadu to, about 40 km from P
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Citizens’ drive puts an end to water problems in Pashan

Rainfall has been scanty this year and Pune has been feeling the pinch, with water cuts prevalent across the city. However, in a proactive step,living around the foothills of the Pashan hill have ensured that they, and residents of the general Baner and Pashan areas, have sufficient groundwater to meet their needs.Over the past three years, residents took the effort to build continuous contour trenches (CCT) and check dams along the foothills, thus ensuring the conservation and percolation of wa
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Part of dying river brought back to life by citizen effort

Besieged by reports of rising, near-fatal pollution levels, the city’s Ram Nadi had been written off as a dying river several years ago. With scant hope of its rejuvenation, piles of litters had also begun to take up most of its banks, further harming the waterbody’s prospects till very recently.However, in a small-but-radiant silver lining to the situation, an effort by a group of strongminded individuals has now not just resurrected a portion of the river, but also impressed the authorities so

Stray dog saves life of Indian doctor who saved her

Dubai: Dr Ramesh Sancheti cared for a stray puppy in Pune, India, for 16 years and named her Brownie. Little did he know, that as he lay alone and collapsed on the floor of his home years later, Brownie would be the one to save him. According to a news report by Pune Mirror, Dr Sancheti’s neighbour, Amit Shah, kept out some food for Brownie on January 23. However, the old dog seemed extremely agitated and refused to eat her food. This struck Shah as particularly worrying. After all, he was also
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Stray dog saves doctor from death, repays him for rescuing her

At a time when people have repeatedly claimed conflicts with strays across Pune, a heartwarming twist to this saga has emerged — on Wednesday, it was only the fierce loyalty of an old street dog that kept a city-based doctor at bay from death, after he collapsed alone inside his home.For 16 long years, Dr Ramesh Sancheti has been feeding and taking care of Brownie, a female canine who was born in the Adinath Society of Swargate, where the 65-year-oldresides.According to his family, she paid him
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This man saved a child from the big cat’s jaws

A security guard at a construction site at Keshavnagar, Mundhwa, proved to be a braveheart when he flung himself at the jaws of death trying to save a seven-year-old Rahul from a leopard attack. Luckily, he managed to dodge death, suffering serious injuries in the process.At 6.40 am, Vikas Bhokare was just 20 minutes away from the end of his shift at the site of Vertical Oriana, when he heard of a leopard on the prowl. “People were shouting about the presence of the cat and I started looking for
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Eminent auctioneer’s son takes on cousin for ‘misusing’ lineage

Basking in reflected glory is one thing, but staking claim to that glory by having public spaces named after people who’ve made no contribution to society is another thing. Such an act by a relative of Raosaheb Shankar Ramchandra Panhale has raised the hackles of the philanthropist’s direct descendant, Abhijit Shyam Panhale, who has taken cudgels against the move with the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB).Abhijit has been shouldering the legacy of his grandfather as an eminent auctioneer and carrying
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Peth trumps ‘new’ areas in climate change resistance

While Pune’s ‘Old City’— famously known as the Peths — have enjoyed cultural popularity for decades on end, it now turns out that there may just be something more to the saying, ‘Old is gold’.A recent study undertaken by a city-based NGO has concluded that some well-aged areas are much more resilient to the growing impacts of climate change, when compared to the burgeoning, newly developing areas across the city.Three wards under the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) were taken into consideration
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This year’s wari moves towards greener pastures; plantation drive to be undertaken on widened Mangalwedha-Pandharpur stretch

At the alarmingly rapid rate that the city’s tree cover is disappearing, some may say that all we may have left is faith in prayer. And now, one of the most massive religious cavalcades to annually visit Pune — the— is making a remarkable step in the green direction.This year, the warkari community has decided to plant a whopping 9,200 saplings along a 23-kilometre stretch that forms a part of their route. This patch, which falls between Mangalwedha and Pandharpur, is also the first newly-widene
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Citizens move NGT, save 162 trees from being axed in Karvenagar

PMC last year zeroed in on 250 trees to axe; now, only 88 to be felled as per orderEven as rampant tree cutting in the name of development has become a widespread issue all around, there may still be hope for a green planet — exemplified by a bunch of citizens who have managed to save over 162 trees from being hacked in the heart of Pune city.At least 250 trees located between Cummins College and Mahalakshmi lawns in Karvenagar, which were slated to be axed by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) la
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Zomaland in the soup as Koregaon Park residents launch protest

A storm is brewing in the upscaleof the city, Koregaon Park, after a leading food aggregator brand’s megaevent has been met with strong outrage from local residents, even as the civic body and police — both involved in giving permissions — are presenting conflicting views.Starting Friday, Zomato’s recurring, is slated to take place in the vicinity for the next three days at the Royal Palms, a sprawling, popular venue for such occasions. Most tickets are sold out and hundreds from the city and ou
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Radio cabbies evoke an archaic Puneri trend, prefer siesta to work

We park the car under a tree or some shade to rest or nap. This is our time to relax. Most of us do this routinely, switching off the app at lunch and getting back on as the peak hours start — A cab driver taking us from Deccan to Kothrud If you thought the operations of app based cabs had spared you of the scourge ofrefusing rides, try booking a cab in these peak summer afternoons. If you are travelling long distance, brace yourself for having your booking cancelled repeatedly and investing a
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Stray dogs go missing from CME campus

The city’s human-stray conflict is not exclusive to its civilian areas, and reactions to the issue are also not very different, notwithstanding that military establishments are known to be devoted to protocols. In a clear violation of the mandate against relocation of these canines,have been disappearing from the 3,600-acre campus of College of Military Engineering (CME).Residents on campus put the count at 20 dogs that went missing over the past two months. Alarm bells were rung out when senior
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Techie alleges Infosys fired him for protecting stray dogs on campus

While major acts ofand petty squabbles are common in residential societies over the fate of stray animals in their vicinity, the office campus of an information technology (IT) major in the city has now emerged as another venue for such a conflict.A software professional employed byfor 17 years has alleged that he was wrongfully terminated from his job a few months ago, merely for asking security to allow in a stray dog, who had ventured out of the campus, back into its home.While he was let go
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40 spots identified to map the city’s toxicity

Punekars may soon be privy to the toxicity of the air they breathe — and this is not about the volume of particulate matter thickening it, but its actual chemical composition, thanks to a first-of-its-kind exercise being undertaken by scientists of the(IITM).They’ve already identified 40 spots across the city where they will run the toxicity analysis to gain an understanding of the real air health.Experts herald this as a first for the city, wherein the ultrahigh-resolution emission identificati
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Unviable concretisation choked Peepal tree that killed PMPML bus driver

Yet another life was claimed in the city by the unseasonal vagaries of nature on Wednesday, after a 100-year-old tree collapsed in the face of torrential rain and high wind. However, after a driver of) was killed when his bus was crushed by the massive Peepal that fell on top, it has emerged that this unfortunate incident could have been averted — had the authorities been even slightly environmentally conscious as they went around developing the concrete jungle that is our city.Now, experts have
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FTII HoDs kicked out of academic council

Fresh controversy has erupted at the(FTII), with heads of various departments (HoDs) at the premier national academy expressing strong dissent at being thrown out of the(AC), backed in their outrage by students as well.The HoDs and scholars have termed this decision of the governing council (GC) as yet another way to stifle their voices, even as the latter have simply justified their stand saying AC meetings were too time-consuming and spent discussing unnecessary small-time affairs.The FTII AC
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