Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
The four-year-old public bicycle scheme which is yet to hit the road will continue to remain on paper for some more time because the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) first wants to prepare a ?comprehensive bicycle plan' for the next 20 years. The proposal is not new. Exactly a year back …
Tree activists in the city have started writing to the garden department of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to protest against the state forest minister Patangrao Kadam's application to cut three trees on BMCC Road. The matter came up at a meeting of the tree authority held last week, when …
The electricity generated at the Rochem garbage processing plant in Hadapsar will now be available for commercial use. From September, the plant is expected to generate around 1 MW electricity every day, out of which around 700 KW will be used to run the plant and the surplus of around …
With another water shortage season in the city, the PMC administration is pushing for its plan to revamp the water supply system envisaging the establishment of a system for equitable and metered water supply to every house. The civic administration is set to table the Rs 2,818 crore investment plan …
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has issued notices to five construction houses for not following sanitation norms, thereby providing breeding ground for mosquitoes responsible for spreading Dengue. On Wednesday, 25 cases were registered in the city compared to four or five cases last week. This has led PMC to …
The NCP and civic activists have opposed the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) plan to establish hawkers’ zones on cycle track and footpaths on Prabhat Road, Model Colony and University Road. NCP workers led by Ameya Jagtap, a member of the civic tree committee, recently met municipal commissioner Vikas Deshmukh and …
Pimpri Chinchwad recorded as many as 20 malaria cases and 37 dengue cases from January to June this year. “A total of 32,812 suspected malaria cases were detected in the city in the past six months. Out of these, 20 patients were confirmed to have malaria. There were as many …
The city reported 33 dengue cases in just five days this month. Dengue has also claimed the lives of two people in the short span of a week. Pune has recorded a sizable number of cases when compared with Pimpri Chinchwad. The Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) health department has started …
PUNE: The city-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) has advised people to stay alert and take precautionary measures after 34% of the total samples it had screened in June tested positive for the dengue virus. The premier virology institute received a total of 361 samples in June, mainly from Pune …
PUNE: The air quality status data for Pune for 2013-14, released by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) recently, shows that several areas in the city have been recording pollution levels which are considerably above the permissible limits since 2005. The nine-year data in the report also said that in …
PUNE: A World Bank report has pushed for wider network of bus rapid transit system (BRTS) across the country to save fuel cost, cut down on pollution and save thousands of lives lost every year in road accidents. Projecting the benefits of the Pimpri Chinchwad BRTS in the years to …
PUNE: Green activists on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Pune municipal commissioner Vikas Deshmukh alleging that illegal felling of trees has occurred in the campus of the University of Pune (UoP) on a large scale. A right to information (RTI) application filed by Vivek Velankar and A G Bagul …
PUNE: NCP MP Supriya Sule's demand to restart riverside road construction work has riled city environmentalists, who have asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) not to succumb to the NCP leader's pressure and engage in illegal work. Sule had recently threatened to undertake an agitation if the PMC failed to …
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has appointed a Bus Rapid Transport System (BRTS) expert from Ahmedabad, Pratik Dave, as their technical advisor to fast rack its much hyped but delayed BRTS projects, started under the JNNURM scheme. Standing Committee Chairman, Mahesh Landge, announced at a press meet on …
PUNE: City-based activists on Monday raised objections over cutting of 253 trees in the Swargate area and managed to stall the process undertaken by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), at least for now. "We have submitted a complaint to the police raising our objections. We have got an assurance from …
PUNE: An audit report for the nine km Swargate-Hadapsar bus rapid transit system (BRTS) stretch has recommended that the PMPML take responsibility for preventing the entry of non-BRTS vehicles in the dedicated corridor. The audit, which was done by a private agency appointed by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), has …
The monsoon is expected to arrive in Pune on Monday , according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). After an eight-day delay , the southwest monsoon finally touched north Konkan, Mumbai and the ghat areas near Pune on Sunday , bringing light rain to the city . IMD officials said …
The Union urban development department will study all the incomplete projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and find a `solution' to get the works done. The mission's deadline ended on March 31, this year and the new government has not announced its stand about the second …
More adults in the city are being diagnosed with measles infection with the majority falling under the age-group of 20-30 years. “Those born before 1990 are more susceptible to the infection, which is often serious, since they have received just one dose of the vaccine,” warned doctors in the city. …
PUNE: The slums in the city will promote the use of unconventional energy if the civic body's plan to use solar energy to power lights is approved. A proposal to fit solar street lights in the slums has been tabled before the standing committee. The Shivajinagar assembly constituency has been …
