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 No gain from 2-month delay to enforce fare cut Three months after the state government asked Mumbai, Thane and Pune RTAs to reduce autorickshaw fares in tandem with the petrol price cut, Pune is still grappling with the problem. The belated effort to get auto drivers to follow their …
Pune Fifty pigs have died in a fortnight in Jalgaon but humans need not worry about swine flu, the animal husbandry department says. The disease that killed the pigs was not swine flu but swine fever, which does not pass on to humans, DS Zagade, commissioner of animal husbandry, said …
The charter of demands for saving the deteriorating environment by Ecological Society. Disappointed by the lack of proper focus on environmental issues in the manifestos of the political parties, this environmental manifesto is an an outcome of the deliberations held at Paryavaran Parishad held at Pune from 18-19 April 09. …
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is all set to spend Rs 20 lakh a year, for the next five years, on creating environmental awareness. The amount has been earmarked as expenses to impart awareness lessons to 20,000 schoolchildren and 1,000 teachers next month onwards. What makes it all the …
NEW DELHI | PUNE: With the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the extent of swine flu only two stages away from developing into a pandemic, the Union Health Ministry has pressed the panic button. Unlike the Ministry
Pune, April 27 The Union Health Ministry has mandated April 30 as the date on which the public health system will switch over from conventional disposable syringes to auto disable (AD) ones, which become dysfunctional after a single use. With the deadline only a few days away, and several State …
Pune On the occasion of Earth Day celebrations, nature lovers, environmentalists and environmental NGOs from Pune and rest of Maharashtra have come out with a list of do
Indapur (Pune): Jaising Nagre makes a living by fishing in the Ujjani dam backwaters in Indapur. Nagre, who is from the Bhoi community, says that in the last decade around 3,000 fishermen from other states have settled down around the Ujjani dam and have evicted the locals from plum fishing …
A delegation of write-pickets from the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) an association elf waste-pickers from Pune, and the national alliance of waste-picker's' organisations, presented the Lok Sabha candidates with a petition asking them to pass a - "Recycling Policy', which gives due place to the waste-pickers and the …
Interim report of the People's Commission of Inquiry to inquire into the land deals, land transfers and displacement due to dams and Lavasa Project in the Sahyadri (mountainous) region of Pune, Maharashtra.
Pune You are playing with our lives, villagers tell PMC, district officials, MPCB Members of the Kachra Depot Hatao Sangharsh Samiti have sought written explanations from the Pune Municipal Corporation, the district collectorate and the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for risking their lives due to the unscientific dumping of …
MUMBAI: Officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have seized huge stocks of three leading brands of energy drinks, collectively worth around Rs 2.64 crore, from Mumbai and Pune. The move comes close on the heels of recent amendments to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. Most of these …
Pune In an innovative venture where farmers will get to sell their produce directly to consumers without middlemen, Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat (ABGP), a consumer right
Pune Beating recession blues, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Regional Transport Office has earned Rs 116.78 crore in the financial year 2008-09 overshooting its target by Rs 19 lakh, up from the Rs 102.26 crore which it had earned last year. It is raining money for RTO in the twin township of Pimpri-Chinchwad
Pune The election fever is catching up and candidates are busy reaching out to people. But in the same week as Pune will go for Lok Sabha polls, a conference will take place in the city. However, that convention will be different from those by the political parties. Disappointed by …
Pune As many as 147 out of the 215 TB patients who died in Pune in 2008 had HIV The TB-HIV link is getting stronger in Pune. Out of the 215 tuberculosis (TB) patients who died in 2008 in Pune, at least 147 were infected with HIV. In Pimpri-Chinchwad area, …
ANURADHA MASCARENHAS PUNE, MARCH 19 THE child sex ratio (below six years) has been on the decline in the country and villages and districts are now hitting a new low. Pune city, and district, has clearly made its choice and opted for the male child. Biith registrations at Pune Municipal …
