Pune Beat

In his 36 year long career at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Prof Kapahi played a key role in the all round development of radio astronomy in the country, including the construction of the Kalyan Radio Telescope and the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope GMRT in Khodad near Narayangaon, which is the world8217;s largest telescope operating at frequencies upto 1.4GHz.

Since 1994, he had been the director of the NCRA. Prof Kapahi is internationally acclaimed for his findings in the field of extragalactic radio sources and cosmology. He has authored nearly a 100 research papers. He had also won prestigious awards such as Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award of CSIR and Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai award.

PMT files writ against RTA
The Pune Municipal Transport on Tuesday filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court challenging the decision of the Regional Transport Authority to allow the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Transport to ply its buses on three routes in Pune.

PCMT had been granted temporary permits last month to ply its buses up to Hadapsar, Kothrud, and Katraj from Nigdi.

The PMT challenged the decision of the RTA on the grounds that the PMT had not given its no-objection for starting the routes.