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 Eight sarpanchs, 21 deputy sarpanchs and 276 gram sabha members could be asked to step down For sarpanch Kachru Tanhu Padwal from Chandivalli, in Mulshi taluka, it may be an untimely exit from his post this year. The reason: not constructing the mandatory toilet block under the sanitation programme …
Pune Ganpat Borade, a retired post master from Warude who has given up his 7.5 acre land for the Bharat Forge multi-product SEZ at Khed is hoping that the second phase of negotiations will fetch him a better price for his land than what was offered by Maharashtra Industrial Development …
Spice up the meat preparation or get respite from sore throat—ginger is always around to help. Grandmother’s ginger tea for coughs never fails. Moving away from home remedies, the dried rhizome of ginger comprises ayurvedic medicines prescribed for gastrointestinal disorders. “Dried ginger, rock salt and black pepper with lukewarm water …
Pune Last year this time, around three villages and 10 wadis in Pune district was receiving water via tankers. This figure was in unison with the groundwater level in the district that later dropped to an average of 6.17 metres in May last year. This year has been an exception. …
Pune In 2004, Dilip Mehta, a villager in Phursungi had to discontinue using water from his well. Reason: water was found to be unfit for consumption. Mehta said the well had been changing colour for years. Like Mehta, residents of Phursungi and Uruli Devachi and nearby villages claimed the garbage-dumping …
Pune With summer kicking in, district administration repairs pipelines, gets borewells ready and banks on tankers With the mercury levels touching 39 degrees the district administration is already putting together a scheme for the rural areas which are likely to face severe water shortage in the coming months. The district …
Pune A Campaign that started two years ago to promote watershed development activities in villages of Pune district is expected to bear fruit this summer, expect groundwater survey and development agency (GSDA) officials. Over the last two years, the GSDA has been helping people implement rainwater-harvesting schemes as part of …
Pune The Rs 398 crore-pipeline project of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municiapal Corporation (PCMC) from the Pavana dam to Nigdi is facing opposition from villagers over land acquisition. The project was supposed to be completed in two years after its bhoomipoojan, which had taken place on May 1, 2008. Out of the …
Pune The National Housing Census and National Population Register drive in Pune district will begin on May 1. This is the seventh population census to be undertaken by 2011. Pune district is expected to record a 25 per cent increase since the last census, about 10 years ago. In the …
Pune DEVELOPMENT WORK: Standing panel revises allocation, civic spend in 11 months only 30% of amount earmarked this fiscal The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) standing committee on Thursday increased the budget estimates for 2010-
The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) despite having 80 acres of garbage depot at Moshi has been permitted to have another 57 acres of land for waste processing and management by the state government. The PCMC will be implementing new waste disposal project on this 57 acres of land. When the …
Pune-based vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India (SII) is looking at a mid-April date for the launch of their H1N1 nasal drop vaccine. The injectable variety of the vaccine will be available only in May. The SII, which recently submitted the phase I clinical trial safety reports to the Drugs …
Pune From now on, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) may have to be cautious while sanctioning more industries, thanks to a study by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). In a recent survey conducted by the board, Pimpri-Chinchwad figures in the list of 88 highly polluted industrial clusters in the country …
Pune As the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) gears up to enforce a total ban on all types of polythene bags in its jurisdiction, traders are seeking parity of enforcement among civic bodies. Unlike PCB, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has banned only plastic bags below 50 microns. The traders have …
Pune The State health department has registered two more deaths due to the HINI virus, including a 10-month-old baby and a 38-year-old woman. This takes the death toll due to swine flu to 180. 10-month-old Vaishnavi Jagtap from Hadapsar was admitted to Sassoon hospital and tested positive with the virus. …
Pune In a bid to encourage tree plantation, the administration has planned to set up nearly 300 nurseries in schools in the district. The plan envisages housing nurseries in all the high schools in the villages. Zilla Parishad CEO Sanjiv Kumar said that all the education officers have been intimated …
