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 Union government on Thursday approved the procurement of 500 buses under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. The buses will bolster the public transport system in the city. Civic officials said the approval came after a meeting on Thursday between stake holders with …
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has started putting up fences along the bridges on Pavana, Mula and Indrayani rivers that flow through the municipal limits to prevent people from throwing ‘nirmalya’ (floral offerings) into the water bodies. The corporation has also installed 57 ‘nirmalya’ containers along the river banks …
Pvt Vehicles Rise As Public Transport Remains Poor Pune: Smaller cities, experiencing a more rapid shift to personal vehicles in the absence of adequate investment in a strong public transport system, are struggling with severe air pollution, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) research has observed. Such is the …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) registered two more dengue cases on Saturday, taking the total to 120 — the highest recorded in a month. So far, 398 cases have been recorded this year. “Till September 29, as many as 120 people have been tested positive for dengue, whereas last month …
NIV Scientists Find DENV-3 Was Causative Agent In 19 Of 28 Samples During July-Sept Scientists at the Punebased National Institute of Virology (NIV) have confirmed that three serotypes of dengue virus — DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3 — are currently co-circulating in the city. Among the three types, DENV-3 has been …
Pune: Rising cases of dengue in the city have led experts to advise people to take preventive measures, like cleaning containers where water can accumulate. Since there is no preventive vaccine, it becomes the responsibility of the citizens to empty and clean vessels that can store water, experts observed. “Items …
Pune: To encourage citizens to segregate wet and dry waste, the municipal corporation in Pimpri Chinchwad will soon start distributing two small garbage bins free of cost among 4.65 lakh households here. The civic body will purchase over 9.3 lakh garbage bins in two colours __ white for wet and …
38 Cases Registered In The First 10 Days Of This Month Pune: An average two positive cases of dengue were reported every day in the city between July 1 and September 10. The city has recorded 181 confirmed cases of dengue during this period, with 11 cases reported on Tuesday …
Jaipurites have the weakest lungs among Indians, says a study conducted by Chest Research Foundation (CRF), Pune. The study has pointed out that residents of the Pink City are at high risk of suffering from chronic lung diseases. CRF conducted the nationwide study across five centers in India including Jaipur, …
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) plans to purchase 665 buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Bapu Gaikwad, assistant transport planner of the civic traffic cell, said, “The Union government has sent letters to various cities, including Pimpri Chinchwad, informing them that it had extended …
New Delhi: In another proof that worsening air quality in Indian cities is affecting people’s health, a study has found that Indians have 30% lower lung function as compared to Europeans. Things could get worse if immediate steps are not taken to curb vehicular emission, doctors warned. The study was …
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) waste-to-green energy project from processing garbage in Hadapsar has run into trouble. Mumbai-based Rochem Separations Systems (India) Pvt Ltd, which was operating the plant on a build-operate-transfer basis to process 700-tonne dry waste and generate 10 MW electricity every day, has failed to run …
Mumbai: Why is the state government sitting on the policy guidelines to regulate cell tower installation across Maharashtra though they were drafted two years ago, ask citizens from Thane, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan-Dombivli. After the BMC recently drafted a policy to regulate such installations in Mumbai, other cities, second-rung towns …
Pune, home to an H1N1 outbreak in 2009, is battling a fresh one with 232 found positive since January. The virus has killed 35 in the Pune municipal region this year, including some from rural areas on the outskirts treated in the city, but excluding 13 who died in Pimpri-Chinchwad. …
Sadiccha cooperative housing society on Paud road reduced its monthly electricity bill by almost Rs 10,000 in July, when it first switched over to compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) for its common areas and parking and replaced its worn-out water pump with a new, more powerful machine. The society, comprising 84 …
Healthcare Providers Submit List After Govt Rule Made It Mandatory In 2012 The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recorded 727 fresh cases of tuberculosis (TB), as reported by private hospitals in the city ever since it was made a notifiable disease by the Union government last May. This is in …
Large scale tree-cutting, destruction of hills and quarrying, pollution of water bodies and the erection of cellphone towers are taking a toll on the diverse habitats available for birds in the city, said ornithologist Prabhakar Kukdolkar, a former forest department official. “About 410 species of birds have been recorded in …
As many as 21 people have tested positive for swine flu in Pune city till date this month. Among them, four have succumbed to the infection. The city has reported 24 confirmed swine flu cases last month. Six of them have died of the infection in July. "There has been …
For most Puneites, traffic and transport pose the worst kind of problems. The clamour for a metro and a more effective Bus Rapid Transit System is growing, but urban planners and experts have warned that investments in both modes would be wasted if access to these public transport systems is …
Green activists have alleged that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has failed to comply with an interim order of the Bombay high court directing the civic body to issue notices to those who have sought permission to cut down trees, but not followed the norms set by the court. An …
