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Pune

American  
[poo-nuh] / ˈpu nə /

noun

  1. a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.


Pune British  
/ ˈpuːnə /

noun

  1. another name for Poona

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Digvijay Patil, a PhD student in archeology at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Pune, noticed repeated mentions of unusual plants while studying Sanskrit and Marathi texts related to sacred sites.

From Science Daily

In recent days, after civic elections in Pune and Mumbai, conversations had begun about the possibility of a reconciliation between the two factions of the NCP, led by uncle and nephew.

From BBC

The Trumps have followed that model in more than a half-dozen projects in India over the past decade, including two completed luxury residential towers in the cities of Mumbai and Pune, and two others that are nearly finished in Kolkata and Gurugram.

From The Wall Street Journal

The sale of one plant, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, went off relatively smoothly in 2017 because the company offered to transfer workers to its other factory in Pune, in neighboring Maharashtra state, according to former executives.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Industrial Tribunal in Pune finally ruled in 2023 that GM had the right to close down.

From The Wall Street Journal