Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Pune
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Highways, environment ministry face-off over wildlife mitigation
NAGPUR: The union highways and transport ministry headed by Nitin Gadkari and environment ministry by Prakash Javadekar seem headed for a face-off over wildlife mitigation measures in four-laning of NH-7
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Civic body plans to set up biogas plant to treat organic garbage
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) plans to decompose organic waste to generate biogas at the unused dome of the old sewage treatment plant (STP) in Kasba Bawda. Following the National Green Tribunal's
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‘New GR on land acquisition to help speed up 1000 cases in Pune’
The May 12 Government Resolution offering at least 25 per cent more compensation to land owners than what was envisaged in the central land acquisition Act of 2013 will help speed up at least 1,000 pending
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NGT orders action against noise pollution at weddings in Pune
After an interim order was passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the green court has now put severe restrictions on live bands or DJ music and other noisy celebrations at weddings. Speaking with
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Blame vehicles for air pollution as few convert to CNG
MUMBAI: The main sources of air and noise pollution in the state, especially in Mumbai, are vehicles while domestic sewage has been found majorly responsible for water pollution in rivers. Noise pollution
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Maharashtra government to bring in act for tackling epidemics
After around 300 swine flu deaths in Maharashtra, the state government is planning to bring in an emergency medical services act to integrate various stakeholders in the health sector to counter epidemics
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NGT awards Rs 95-cr compensation to Raigad fishermen families
Pune-based Western Zone bench of the National Green Tribunal has directed the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
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New app to check air quality
In a bid to enhance awareness of the hazards of air pollution, India’s first ‘air quality’ Mobile App, SAFAR-Air, was launched on Tuesday at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune. The application,
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App to check air quality in Delhi, Pune launched
Now one can check real-time air quality in certain parts of Delhi and Pune. The ministry of earth sciences (MoES) has launched a smartphone app called ‘SAFAR-Air’ to provide the data to people. It also
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Dengue continued its sting, kept health officials on their toes
A whopping 3,440 dengue cases were detected from June to September though the death toll this year was a minuscule nine in comparison. The viral disease saw health officials on alert conducting exercises