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Pune
[ poo-nuh ]
noun
- a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
Pune
/ ˈpuːnə /
noun
- another name for Poona
Example Sentences
"We have got to take the good things forward," added Rohit, with the second Test scheduled to begin in Pune on Thursday.
In a small, crowded tenement in the slums of India's Pune city, Shailaja Paik grew up, surrounded by alleys strewn with garbage and battling the daily challenges of limited water and no private toilet.
Spending her childhood in a 20x20ft room in Pune’s Yerwada slums, Paik remembered standing in long queues every day to fetch water from the public tap for cooking and cleaning.
Paik developed a love for history while pursuing her undergraduate degree at the city’s Nowrosjee Wadia College, and masters at Savitribai Phule Pune University.
After the police were called in to end a strike that crippled operations at one of his firm's factories in Pune in 1989, Tata told journalists: "Perhaps we took our workers for granted. We assumed that we were doing all that we could do for them, when probably we were not."
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