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 …
MUMBAI: The state government will request the union government to allow relaxation of silence zone norms for 15 days in a year in every district. In an affidavit filed before the Bombay high court on Wednesday in the Shivaji Park silence zone case, the state government has said that it …
soil and rock layer composition is governed by human activities such as disposal of factory and domestic wastes, construction and vehicular pollution. These change the magnetic properties of the soil particles. A recent study by geologists from the University of Pune measured the soil’s magnetism in the Pune metropolitan region …
Pune Consuming 14.1 Thousand Million Cubic (TMC) water in a year when 11.5 TMC was earmarked for it, the civic administration has said that the irrigation department would have to increase the quota for the Pune Municipal Corporation in the next agreement between the two departments. The PMC had last …
Pune Civic body asks people to use water sparingly to avoid cuts like last year At 20 per cent of their storage capacity, dams in Pune region have more water than reservoirs in other parts of the state. With just a month for monsoon, the civic administration and the irrigation …
Ahead of another monsoon, the National Institute of Virology (NIV) has in a conclusive piece of research said that the severity of the H1N1 influenza pandemic is less than that reported for
Pune Say plant hazardous to environment Residents of Navlakh Umbre in Talegaon are unhappy with the proposed 2,500-MW power project in Talegaon by Hindustan Electricity Generation Company (HEGC). People are protesting as they say the project carries environment-related hazards. Darshan Hiranandani, managing director, HEGC, on Tuesday, held a meeting with …
Pune The Pune rural police have given a proposal to the District Collector for Joint River Patrolling (JRP) suggesting measures to check crimes related to lifting of sand from the river bed. This comes in the wake of the murder of Sharad Janardan Choudhary, a sand-lifting contractor, in Shirur on …
P B Jayakumar & Raghavendra Kamath / Mumbai May 1, 2010, 1:40 IST The Hiranandani Group, one of the largest privately-held real estate developers, is foraying into power generation in a big way. The group is setting up a 2,500-Mw gas-based power project at a location near Pune. The Group, …
Pune Aundh residents Rajendra and wife Sangeeta Joshi proudly display their property tax bill in which they have been awarded a rebate of five per cent. What makes the rebate doubly special is the fact that it
Pune The state government has sought explanation from the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) for the delay of four months in providing mid-day meal to children of its nine schools. The Zilla Parishad has taken a strong note of the delay by the PCB in re-starting the mid-day meals after it …
Pune More than two weeks after nearly 34,000 doses of the imported swine flu vaccine were procured by the state, the vaccination record among the high-risk population of doctors and paramedical workers in Pune and other districts continues to be dismal. However, health officers are hopeful that Pune doctors will …
Pune The district administration is gearing up for May 1 when the National Housing Census and National Population Registry drive will commence in the city and Pimpri-Chinchwad areas. However, the office is yet to receive the questionnaires. Residents will have to fill up two questionnaires with 50 questions when the …
Pune Civic bodies in the district will prepare a proposal for curbing river pollution of the Bhima river by April 20 and hand it over to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. A meeting headed by district collector Chandrakant Dalvi on Tuesday saw the representatives agree on readying the proposal in …
A Lieutenant General in the Army rides a cycle to office and back twice a week. Not only does Commandant of the College of Military Engineering (CME), Lt Gen U S P Sinha, cycle five kilometres from home to office on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but all other officers and students …
