Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Pune has registered a whopping 741 cases of dengue this year so far. September and October have seen the highest number of cases at 126 and 133 respectively. While the winter chill has brought down the number of cases last week, warmer days as predicted by the Met department has …
Unicef India has launched ‘Take Poo to the Loo’, an innovative digital campaign focusing on putting an end to open defecation. The three month initiative aims to create awareness on the issue. The Indian Institute of Technology is to contribute to the initiative by mobilising students in the campus in …
Unicef India has launched ‘Take Poo to the Loo', a digital campaign focusing on putting an end to open defecation. The three-month initiative aims to create awareness on the issue. The Indian Institute of Technology is to contribute to the initiative by mobilising students in the campus in Delhi against …
KOLHAPUR: Of the 60,000 square km area of the Western Ghats that the Union environment ministry notified as ecologically sensitive on Wednesday, 17,000 sq km fall in Maharashtra covering 2,133 villages across 12 districts. Raigad and Pune have the highest number of villages that will get the fragile zone tag, …
More Cases In State Than Last Yr; Pune’s Disease Burden Highest; Officials Blame Weather Pune: The number of dengue cases in the state has shot up to an alarming high, with as many as 3,564 cases reported between January and October this year, more than twice the number in 2012 …
Two days after the National Green Tribunal (western zone) fined two Mumbai developers for proposing small projects to bypass mandatory approval process by competent authorities and then expanding them, city builders cite cumbersome procedures and delays in clearances as the reasons for doing so. Admitting that bypassing the law of …
MUMBAI: The frequency of leopard attacks around Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in the last one year has again raised fears among locals of the bigger human conflict with the wild. In the last 15 years, 128 people have been attacked in or around the national park. As many as …
The early rains of the 2013 monsoon ended the drought in Maharashtra. But the long-term problem remains. A combination of measures is required to tackle the issue.
In a bid to check on industrial pollution, District Planning and Environment Committee is all set to conduct random checks on industries emptying effluents into rivers. The decision was taken at the committee meeting presided over by District Collector Vikas Deshmukh. A four-point agenda was discussed which included checking on …
Pune: Forty-nine patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have died of the infection within 19 months of diagnosis and being put on anti-tuberculosis drugs in Pune district, the latest state health department report said. Delayed diagnosis and treatment, non or irregular adherence to treatment protocol, co-existence of other underlying medical …
It was immersion day and festivities were supposed to be loud. But at 114.4 decibels, it was deafening. Wednesday, September 18, turned out to be noisiest day of the year and took experts by surprise. The experts of College of Engineering Pune (CoEP) kept a close tab on noise levels …
Remote village electrification: Gram Oorja’s journey - a presentation by Anshuman Lath, co-founder, Gram Oorja Solutions, Pune at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
The H1N1 influenza has emerged as the biggest killer in Maharashtra this year cl-a-i-ming three times the number of lives taken by dengue and malaria put together, and six times if compared individually. Initially termed as swine flu, the virus has also shown a worryingly high mortality rate with almost …
There has been no let-up in decibel levels in the past three years during Ganesh festival. While Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) plans to monitor decibel levels at 15-20 sites in the city, the police commissioner's office has had several meetings with Ganesh mandals to stress the need for an …
A 38-year-old woman from Satara has succumbed to swine flu in a hospital here, taking the city’s H1N1 death toll to 39 so far this year. The contagion claimed nine victims in August. Alka Kharat, a resident of Mangalwar Peth in Satara, had developed influenza-like symptoms on August 26. She …
Bench orders survey of industrial units, effluent treatment practices, other steps In a case filed by a city-based lawyer before the newly opened bench of National Green Tribunal in Pune pertaining to continuing pollution in the Chandrabhaga river in Pandharpur, the bench has issued several instructions to all respondents. The …
The areas under Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) recorded the 35th death due to swine flu (H1N1 virus) since January when Hiraman Mohol, 51, of Kothrud died on August 17 at the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital. The toll from Pune stands at 48 if the 13 deaths in the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Sarang Yadwadkar & Others Vs Mrs. Anjali Dinkar Datar & Others dated 16/08/2013 regarding dumping of debris and other materials and construction on the river bank and causing pollution and changing the course of the river Mutha. Tribunal directs removal …
As many as 33 confirmed dengue cases have been recorded in Pune city this month. The cases of the mosquito-borne infection has been on the rise since July. "Six more cases of dengue have been registered on Monday . With this, the dengue case tally has gone up to 33 …
Vaccines Help But Exposure To Virus Gives Long-Term Immunity, Says NIV Pune: Patients diagnosed with swine flu now are presenting symptoms similar to those exposed to the virus in 2009, medical experts have said. Immunity developed either through exposure to the virus or vaccination has gone down considerably and hence …
