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 …
4 Deaths In City In One Week City-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) has advised people to stay alert and take precautionary measures to ward off swine flu as the H1N1 infection rate has gone up considerably this month. The infection rate of the H1N1 virus has touched 13% in …
Pune: A mobile-based application can now be used as a tool to monitor malaria prevalence in the community. The application helps analyse the distribution of malaria in a certain area to initiate investigative and control measures. It is also saves time, as it helps in early diagnosis of the disease. …
Pune: The city’s much talked about 24x7 water supply and water meter scheme is finding it hard to get off the ground, with no responses yet to the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) tenders to provide meters for the scheme. The civic administration had taken an important step in May this …
Pune: Within a month of taking a decision to demolish all illegal mobile towers on municipal buildings, the civic corporation is now reconsidering its stand against them. “As per the directives of telecom ministry, a committee has been formed in all the districts to take a decision against illegal towers. …
Pune: The National Green Tribunal on Thursday gave conditional approval to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for the construction of a2.3-km road along the Mutha river bed from Vitthalwadi to the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass on National Highway-4. The tribunal, chaired by justice Swatanter Kumar, judicial member justice U D Salvi, …
One in four samples of drinking water in the city was found contaminated in tests at the Pune-based State Public Health Laboratory (SPHL) last month. The problem has increased significantly this monsoon, with 26% of the samples found unfit for consumption as against 16% last year. Water contamination exceeding 10% …
Only 1% of water samples tested in Pune city was found unfit for consumption as against 26% in Mumbai, an official of the State Public Health Laboratory (SPHL) said here on Wednesday. The SPHL has found that besides Mumbai, the percentage of water unfit for consumption has gone up considerably …
Corporator Asha Shendge said some corporators from her party have already raised several issues related to road safety on the BRTS lanes. These corporators include Seema Savale and Sarang Kamtekar, the vice president of the state unit of Vidyarthi Sena. "The civic administration had promised to conduct a road safety …
The airport authorities have been asked by the district administration to explore alternate sites for the proposed international airport, as there could be land acquisition problems at the site near Rajgurunagar that they had surveyed recently for it. "The state government is mulling the possibility of an alternative location as …
City doctors have reported a spurt in dengue and malaria cases this month and attribute it to the fluctuating temperature and the intermittent rains. Civic health officials said on Thursday that the number of cases has shot up in June and asked people to take necessary precautions and ensure there …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will take action against telecom and tower installation companies that have put up mobile towers on school and hospital buildings in the city, said municipal commissioner Mahesh Pathak. Elected members across party lines raised the issue at the general body (GB) meeting of the PMC …
PUNE: The city reported 10 cases of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver, so far this month, states the latest report of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). As many as 82 such cases have been recorded so far this year. "Two people were found infected with viral hepatitis in Pune …
Pune: It is common knowledge that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has failed to fully execute the 1987 Development Plan (DP) in the past 25 years. Against this backdrop, many town-planning experts have demanded the implementation of Town Planning (TP) schemes in old city areas. Several city-based NGOs, experts, civic …
‘Less Than 25% Solid Waste Generated In Country Treated Scientifically’ Pune: Deputy chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Monday that state governments need to implement the Municipal Solid Waste Rules of 2002 more effectively. “Not even 25% of the 17 million tonne of municipal solid waste generated …
Pune: The Development Plan (DP) for the old city areas has insisted on the formulation of a long-term strategy to tackle water supply-related problems. It requires rigorous distribution, modeling and amalgamation of the present network after carrying out detailed distribution and sufficiency analyses, and pressure monitoring. “A master plan considering …
PUNE: All government and private hospitals are now required to keep a display board of the sex ratio at birth, based on the number of deliveries of boys and girls taking place on their premises. The state government, in a letter issued on May 31, has directed civil surgeons and …
New Delhi: Are mothers to be blamed for high prevalence of obesity among their offspring? This inference has acquired a degree of credibility thanks to a recent research conducted across four Indian cities — Delhi, Agra, Pune and Bangalore. The survey showed 64.8% of school-goers’ mothers overweight or obese as …
PUNE: The city continues to bear the brunt of mosquito-borne infections with as many as 95 dengue and 44 malaria cases being recorded between January 1 and May 26, this year. "Three cases each of dengue and malaria were recorded last week. Since all private hospitals have been directed to …
About 62% of metropolitans in the high-income-group bracket buy organic, an increase of 95% in the last five years. There has been a major shift towards organic products, especially fruit and vegetables in the metropolitan cities as about 62 per cent of metropolitans in the high-income-group bracket buy organic, an …
WWF India has developed a “low carbon growth policy tracker” to help assess low carbon policies across the country. The objective of the study is to outline a low carbon transformation across the states keeping in mind the government’s stated aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 per cent …
