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How Pune IT firm duped nearly 700 techies before vanishing | Pune News

How Pune IT firm duped nearly 700 techies before vanishing | Pune News

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The office looked like a prospering tech start-up in a gleaming complex in Hinjewadi Phase 2 in Pune. A dedicated HR team, a training department, and polished offer letters with the company letterhead. A wall of colourful product logos that promised an ambitious ecosystem of apps, from a news platform to a dairy delivery service to a taxi-hailing app. For hundreds of young engineering graduates from across Maharashtra, like from Nashik, Yavatmal, Jalgaon, and also from Pune’s most reputed colleges, ThynkTech India OPC Pvt Ltd seemed exactly like the break they had been waiting for until it wasn’t. On April 22, when IT employees and interns arrived at the office, they were shocked to find the doors sealed. Taped to the glass entrance was a notice from the property owner, demanding payment of unpaid rent, maintenance charges, and electricity bills. The CEO, Harshal Thakre, was unreachable. Dream that was sold ThynkTech India was registered in Noida but operated a divisional branch out of Hinjewadi, Pune. It launched around April 2025 and quickly established a presence …

Vaishnavi Macdonald’s Homelessness & a Vanishing Father

Vaishnavi Macdonald’s Homelessness & a Vanishing Father

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For an entire generation, Vaishnavi Macdonald will always be Geeta Vishwas, the fearless journalist from Shaktimaan, one of Indian television’s most iconic shows that aired between 1997 and 2005. But long before she became a familiar face on television, Vaishnavi lived a life defined by struggling childhood, supernatural experiences, and a strong commitment to her personal boundaries. Due to the volatile “ego hassles” between her parents, Vaishnavi’s early education was a casualty of their war. “We used to live in hotels because of fights between mom and dad,” she told Siddharth Kanan. “We’d move from one hotel to another. How could I go to school?” Despite missing six years of formal schooling between the 4th and 10th grades, Vaishnavi was sharp academically. “I was very good academically; I wanted to be a scientist, not an actor,” she says. Father’s disappearance and mother’s desperation But fate had other plans. Just when the family moved into a rented outhouse in Hyderabad and life seemed to be settling into some stability, her father disappeared without any explanation. “At …

This weekend, watch how cricket is vanishing from India-Pakistan cricket rivalry | Cricket News

This weekend, watch how cricket is vanishing from India-Pakistan cricket rivalry | Cricket News

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Till very recently, dreamy cricketing fantasies, laced with a lot of wishful thinking and a pinch of gnawing dread, gave fans sleepless nights before every India-Pakistan clash. These were mostly about the game’s early face-offs that historically decided these fixtures of far-reaching consequences. Will Sunil Gavaskar be able to handle Imran Khan’s big in-swinger? When Wasim Akram bangs it short, will Sachin Tendulkar smash it over mid-wicket? Will Rohit Sharma gracefully flick the ball off his legs when Shaheen Afridi bends it into him? All that changed at last September’s Asia Cup when cricket turned into an Indo-Pak cold war in colour-clothing and under floodlights, coming just days after the real one in fatigues under the cover of darkness. As another India vs Pakistan Sunday nears, the pre-match apprehensions are now tragically non-cricketing. Will the teams shake hands? Will Suryakumar Yadav offer tributes to the armed forces at the press conference? Will Pakistan players be mimicking fighter jets in free fall or using bats like guns? The lead-up to the latest clash – the T20 …

Vanishing balconies in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru: Here’s why urban homes are forced to shrink open spaces

Vanishing balconies in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru: Here’s why urban homes are forced to shrink open spaces

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As buildings touch the skies, apartment sizes shrink, and towers get packed so tightly that a neighbour just a few feet away can peer straight into your living room, the once-simple pleasure of stepping out for a quiet cup of tea on the balcony is steadily losing its charm. Worsening air quality, particularly in NCR and Mumbai, along with perennial mosquito problems, are making balcony living far less appealing. For most urban residents, what was once a desirable feature is fast fading into memory. Balconies are shrinking or disappearing from mid-segment homes in Bengaluru and NCR, reflecting a shift toward luxury-focused designs. (Photo for representative purposes only) (Pixabay) A clear trend emerging across cities such as Bengaluru and the NCR is that balconies are shrinking in size, vanishing from mid-segment homes, and increasingly being reserved for high-end developments. Experts say this shift reflects growing buyer awareness about what they are actually paying for within their homes. Balconies are no longer standard inclusions; they are evolving into aspirational features typically associated with luxury apartments. In NCR …

How Bhutwa Keeps a Vanishing Tradition Alive in the Uttarakhand Hills

How Bhutwa Keeps a Vanishing Tradition Alive in the Uttarakhand Hills

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Our community’s food, craft, business, and lifestyle shaped themselves around the journeys we took each year. In spring, we move up to the high bugyal meadows with our herds of Caprinae, when grass and herbs flourish. We spend a few months above the treeline herding flocks, then return to our mid and lower valley settlements in autumn before the snow falls. Traditional trade routes also take some of us beyond the highest mountains into Tibet, returning with goods transported on saddlebags fitted on our animals.  Our lives and destinies thus, have always been deeply intertwined with the goats and sheep that we rear. So, when it comes to food, seasonality and nose-to-tail eating are naturally two very important aspects of how we consume shikar (meat). The best time to eat and preserve mutton is just before winter, when the shepherds return to their lower altitude settlements with well-fed herds fattened on wild herbs and alpine grass from the bugyals. Even now, this is the time to get the cleanest, most well-marbled meat. We have traditional recipes for every …

Naxalism vanishing from jungles, but taking root in urban centres: PM Modi

Naxalism vanishing from jungles, but taking root in urban centres: PM Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Naxalism was being wiped out from the jungles, but expressed concern that it was fast spreading roots in urban areas with some political parties also echoing their ideology. Addressing the Republic Plenary Summit organised by a news channel, Modi also targeted the Congress saying it had crushed the aspirations of people, who also stopped expecting much from the party. He said things have now changed and the people`s aspirations were rising in the past decade since his government came to power. “Today`s India thinks big, sets big targets and delivers big results. It is because the mentality of the country has changed. The country is moving ahead with big aspirations,” Modi said. The prime minister said the government has worked hard on the security front and terror attacks and sleeper cells of terrorists have disappeared from television headlines as well as the country. “Naxalism in the country is also on its last legs. In the past, over 100 districts were severely affected by this menace. However, this number …