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 …
Siddhesh Inamdar Mumbai: Project-displaced people from Pune, Hingoli, Nandurbar, Satara and other districts of Maharashtra gathered at the Azad Maidan here on Thursday and announced the start of an indefinite demonstration, asking for justice. The agitation has been organised by the National Alliance of Peoples Movements and is being led …
Twelve more persons tested positive for swine flu on Tuesday. Two more schools reported one case each, taking the number of affected institutions to six. The count of confirmed cases in the city stands at 72. Several schools have gone into prevention overdrive, asking students to go through blood tests …
Pune Even as the country is in the nascent stages of adopting the new set of criteria to assess a child's growth laid down by the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently, Purandar taluka in Pune district has taken up a project of monitoring 154 children with
Pune Making his contribution towards resolving city's water problem, Suresh Kalmadi, MP, on Sunday sanctioned Rs one crore from his MP fund to the district collectorate.
MUMBAI: Even as the rains remain elusive in catchment areas and contractors promoting cloud seeding technology throng BMC corridors, civic officials are not very keen to woo the rain-bearing clouds artificially. "It is still at a very nascent stage. We have asked contractors to come up with a proposal. We …
Mumbai: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will soon be relieved of the ever growing problem of e-waste. The state government will start the first of its kind plant for scientific recycling of e-waste generated in the region. "E-waste has become a serious cause of concern for the society and the …
Pune The Groundwater Surveys and Development Agency (GSDA) has some good news for the city reeling under water shortage. It has identified a total of 399 dugwells and 4,820 borewells in Pune, which can be useful in this current situation. Of these, over 155 dugwells and 1,575 borewells have been …
Pune: One person was killed and seven others, including two children, were injured following a landslide near Khandala ghat section of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in the wee hours of Monday. The mishap took place near Adoshi tunnel, a part of Baur village ghat section, some 52 kms from Pune. The …
Pune With monsoon remaining elusive, as many as 75 villages and over 300 hamlets are facing severe drinking water shortage. The total number of affected population stands at 1.40 lakh. The Pune Zilla Parishad in association with district collectorate is providing water to these affected villlages through tankers. Resident deputy …
The Maharashtra government is considering implementing a cloud seeding programme to boost rainfall this season. Though the monsoon is showing signs of revival, the state agricultural department is gearing up for the worst. Project Varsha, as the programme is called, was first mooted in 2005 and had since been lying …
Pune If rains continue to stay away from the catchment areas, the water for Pune city will last around 20 days. The water storage in Panshet, Khadakwasla, Temghar and Warasgaon dams have dipped to a low of 0.9 TMC. Irrigation officials say such a delay in rains over dam sites …
Pune As rains remain elusive in the city, the irrigation department has decided to implement 20 per cent water cut for areas in Pune Municipal Corporation limits from Sunday. However, there will be no cut in Pimpri-Chinchwad for the time being. The department has blamed the scorching heat for the …
