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 …
Even as the state-owned oil companies have hiked prices of petrol from Saturday midnight, the city non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have demanded abolition of cess collected by the Centre on petrol and diesel. President of Sajag Nagrik Manch (SNM), Vivek Velankar has demanded that the Central government should abolish cess of …
The Association of Friends of Japan (AFJ), Pune, handed over a cheque ofRs55,051 to the Mumbai-based consul general of Japan, T Mochida, as part of their Japan tsunami relief fund last week. In a press statement, AFJ said that the monies had been collected from common Puneites. AFJ had earlier …
Emboldened by the interim stay order issued by the Bombay high court on Thursday against construction by civic bodies on river beds, activists in Pune have demanded an immediate cessation of all work related to river bed improvement and storm water drainage. Right to information (RTI) activist, Vijay Kumbhar, issued …
The decks have been cleared for kidney transplants in Pune after a decision by the state government to issue a letter to hospitals across the state promising to provide two state government nominees to authorise all transplants. Transplants had been suspended in city hospitals since April 1.An amendment in the …
The National Asthma Control Mission (NACM) was launched on Saturday at the city-based Chest Research Foundation (CRF). Thirty doctors from across India attended a round-table conference to discuss issues related to the adherence of asthma therapy. CRF programme coordinator Dr Monica Barne told DNA the mission was launched to coincide …
The Bombay High Court has overruled a decision by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests to allow Lavasa Corporation Limited to complete the 257 underconstruction buildings at its hill station project near Pune. In its March 30 judgement, the court ordered maintaining status quo on the project till its …
Senior activist and Narmada Bachao Andolan spokesperson, Medha Patkar, on Monday threatened to launch a massive agitation in Satara and Pune districts if the problems of the project affected people (PAP) are not resolved soon. Patkar was in Pune for a meeting with the state minister for rehabilitation and forests, …
Pune-based start-up develops a new model of construction that cuts cost and reduces labour A masonry product that cuts out the use of cement and sand and does not require water curing is what Punebased Green Build Products has developed as its core product line. At a time when the …
Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology of the Sahyadri Hills. Its developer and political patrons bent rules and circumvented environmental law while building it. Resultant landslides could endanger the city. Read this special report published in DownTo Earth. Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology …
Lavasa is a destination for the well-heeled, upwardly mobile, aspiring for quality life. The streets bear names like Thicket and Celosia (an ornamental plant); the village that the town replaces—Dasve—has become the Dasve boulevard. The town centre boasts a town hall that does not resemble any municipal office but a …
Lavasa is called a hill station but does not offer the cool comfort of one. In May and June temperatures touch nearly 40°C— not an ideal summer getaway. In nearby Mahabaleshwar, temperatures rarely cross 35°C. Then what prompted the city’s developer, Lavasa Corporation Limited (LCL), to promote it as a …
Rs56,701 for one square foot of land in Kharadi? If this sounds unbelievable, this is precisely what the land and estate department of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) said in reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application on April 5, 2011. Pune-based river activist, Sarang Yadwadkar, in his RTI …
Sitting near her dilapidated hut in Mugaon village, 70 kilometres from Pune, Thumabai Walhekar (50) was furious. I had asked her a simple question—did she want township Lavasa? Mugaon is one of the 18 villages where Independent India’s first hill city is being developed. Thumabai spoke breathlessly in Marathi, her …
Experts worldwide might well have concluded that H1N1 has run its course , but closer home the deadly virus continues to take its toll. It claimed more lives in Maharashtra in 2010-2011 than any other infectious disease , including malaria , dengue , chikungunya and encephalitis , according to figures …
The court of judicial magistrate first class (JMFC), R D Hazare, has directed Niranjan Hiranandani, chairman and managing director of Hiranandani Group of Companies and his wife Kamal Hiranandani, director of the group
Mumbai: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) told the Bombay high court on Wednesday that it accepted a March 3 recommendation by the expert appraising committee to permit completion of 257 buildings in Lavasa subject to several stringent conditions. Lavasa Corporation in turn said it wanted to withdraw its …
India’s maiden planned hill city that made news for bending rules and undertaking unauthorised construction may get the Centre’s nod, after all. The buzz is the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) may give conditional clearance to Lavasa, which is being developed in the Western Ghats, 65 km from …
