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 …
Survey Among 1,800 Kids In Delhi, Agra, Bangalore And Pune Throws Up Shocking Facts An extensive survey among children has found that while 19.2% males and 18.1% females were overweight/obese, a whopping 64.8% of mothers were in a similar condition. These findings were part of a three-year survey done among …
77.4 % OF CLASS V STUDENTS UNABLE TO SOLVE SIMPLE SUMS FROM CLASS III Pune: An annual national survey in 2012 of school-going children’s ability in mathematics and reading has put Maharashtra right at the bottom with just about 22.6% of the total number of Class V students surveyed able …
Pune: Noted ecologist Madhav Gadgil on Wednesday expressed concern over the unavailability of accurate data regarding availability of water. Addressing a news conference as part of the ongoing 7th Kirloskar Vasundhara international film festival, Gadgil claimed that a lot of information was deliberately being withheld and not made available to …
Pune: With reservoirs in the state collectively holding 44% water, the state government has asked all divisional commissioners to reserve water for drinking purpose and restrict its usage for non-drinking purpose. “At least 1,155 villages and 3,709 hamlets are facing severe water shortage. The state is providing water through 1,539 …
PMC Analysed 35 Child Deaths, Below One Year, Between May 2012 And January 2013 Pune: Low birth weight, a common cause of infant death in rural areas, is also the leading factor linked with infants’ death in Pune, states the latest child death audit report of the Pune Municipal Corporation …
Mumbai: Days after the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal in connection with a case of alleged illegal construction on Pune’s Mutha river, but kept open the questions of law involved, the National Green Tribunal in Delhi has issued a bailable warrant against the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), the state …
Cyrus Poonawalla?s Serum Institute of India to enter injectable polio vaccine market, undercut Glaxo Billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will slash the price of polio immunisation and introduce shots for diarrhea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Poonawalla, who set up the Serum …
Pune: The state government has decided to set up water testing labs at district and sub-district hospitals across the state to provide safe drinking water in rural areas. As part of this initiative, the state health department will set up 137 labs at the cost of Rs 15 crore. The …
With water crisis becoming a permanent scenario for the last three years, the draft civic budget presented by municipal commissioner Mahesh Pathak on Tuesday has proposed Rs 223.08 crore for water supply projects. "The maximum allocation has been given to the water supply department. We have proposed Rs 223.08 crore …
A spectre of severe water scarcity looms large on large parts of the state with the total water storage only 48% of the capacity in the 2438 dams and reservoirs in the state at the end of second week of January. This water has to last six months till rains …
'This year, due to drought conditions, the production estimate was lowered to 520 mn litres. Nearly 500,000 litres of water is required per distillery per day' Distilleries in Maharashtra face a severe cutback in operations and ethanol output due to the state’s severe water shortage. Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil, president of the …
Sunday was the third coldest January day in city in the last ten years After experiencing one of the coldest days on Saturday, mercury levels in the city continued to dip further as Sunday became the third coldest January morning in the last ten years. On Sunday, Mumbai recorded a …
Mumbai: The state government has decided to permit use of no-development zones (NDZs) for industrial, commercial and residential activity in the exit policy for special economic zones (SEZs). A basic floor space index (FSI) of 0.5 on the gross area will be permitted in NDZ areas. As an exit route, …
A recent survey of the forest department (wildlife) Pune has found that there are 625 Indian Giant Squirrels, the state animal, in the Bhimashankar wildlife sanctuary, with occupany of about 50 squirrels per sq km area. The number shows that there is a good population and that breeding is taking …
The dip in the mercury, over the last few days, has resulted in an increase in the air pollution level in the city. In fact, according to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board’s (MPCB) ambient air quality monitoring station, the level of respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM), over the last 15 …
Infosys has been awarded the National Energy Conservation Award 2012 for its energy conservation efforts at the company’s campus in Jaipur and Pune. Infosys BPO building in Jaipur received the first place in the BPO Building category, followed by the two Infosys buildings in Pune which won the second place …
The Government today informed the Lok Sabha that the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has recommended that there is need to ban diesel vehicles in Delhi to prevent the emission of high smoke particles. “The EPCA in a report in 2012 said the benefits of CNG transition are …
The first global vaccine for the prevention of dengue, the outbreak-prone fatal viral disease, is in the final stages of development. Currently in Phase III clinical trials in humans, French company Sanofi Pasteur’s tetravalent vaccine is being tested for efficacy across several countries including India where trials are in progress …
From the sky, the Garden City of Bangalore now looks more smoggy compared to other mega cities in the subcontinent, thanks to rising levels of tiny soot particles in the atmosphere from vehicle and industrial pollution. American and European mega cities appear cleaner over the past decade, while cities in …
It was a shivery Monday morning form Punekars with the city recording 7.9 degrees Celsius, its lowest temperature so far this winter. Monday morning’s recorded temperature is 6.5 degrees below normal for this time of the year. Pune’s temperature has been fluctuating and deviating from the normal over the last …
