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 The Swargate police have arrested a group of five men for allegedly stealing a sandalwood tree from the premises of the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Salisbury Park. The arrests were made immediately after the watchman on duty informed the police control room at 4.30 in the morning on …
Pune Nearly 10 years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) included the locally grown plant species Shindel Makudi, scientifically known as Frerea Indica, in the list of 12 most endangered plants on earth, the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has come out with a study in which …
Pune Even as Union Minister for Environment and Forests (MoEF) Jairam Ramesh has told the district administration to ready a river purification plan, a river improvement plan
Shops and homes in select areas of Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik would soon have to pay in advance for the electricity they use. This follows the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (merc) approval for introducing prepaid electricity meters on a pilot basis. The state’s electricity distribution company will install 25,000 …
Pune Although Pune has been receiving good rainfall over the last few days, the irrigation department said it had not brought any difference in the water levels in dams around the region. Only if the rainfall continues to be heavy would the dams benefit, they said. In the last three …
Pune Nearly 558 hectares of irrigated land will be excluded from the land acquisition for the second phase of Bharat Forge multi-product Special Economic Zone. The district administration, which is awaiting government directives, will now discuss the compensation package with the villagers. The second phase of the project has so …
Mayors and local government leaders from more than 100 cities of India and seven countries of South Asia gathered in the Capital on Tuesday to attend the launch of a global campaign of
Pune The environment protection committee of the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has sought a report from its engineering wing about the requirement of trees to be planted during the tree plantation drive to be kicked off from later this month.
Pune The district rehabilitation office has begun the process of reaching a solution to rehabilitate those affected by Tata Dam constructed in 1900s. As the Maharashtra Resettlement of Projects Displaced Persons Act, 1976, is not applicable to them (the dam was constructed before the Act) a workable solution between displaced …
Pune Thanks to a website launched by a software engineer from Phursungi, the plight of farmers due to garbage dumping in the village has now attracted global attention. The website was launched by Zaheer Inamdar, a son of a farmer from the village, to bring to the fore the hardships …
Pune In two years, the Food and Drug Administration has been able to collect a mere Rs 25,000 as fine from those who violated the ban on smoking in public places in the district. If this doesn
Pune power from waste z Final report likely in a week Capping the garbage at Uruli Devachi and Phursungi depot and generating energy from methane produced is expected to take a couple of years, but the Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited ( IL&FS; ) has already submitted a draft …
