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 …
Parisar, together with Locomotives (an I-CE initiative), the Alliance for Global Education and Janwani, helped create a film to document the current state of Pune's pedestrian facilities. It aims to capture the sad state of pedestrian facilities in the city today and also interviews citizens about their views of the …
Pune After slamming the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for the increasing instances of tree-felling under its jurisdiction, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday denied permission to the civic body to fell trees, but allowed it to cut branches. Hearing the application of the PMC seeking permission to fell trees, Justice …
Pune Other decisions include only 20 per cent hike in skysign rates, Rs 276 crore loan to be raised Against the backdrop of the garbage dumping issue, the standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday took a major decision of putting a 100 per cent ban on …
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will regularise the practice of providing organic waste from hotels and restaurants to farmers around the city. During the recent agitation by Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villagers, some such waste had been provided to farmers. Now, the civic administration has decided to provide such …
Pune 7 months & no longer, villagers promised The weeklong stir by villagers of Phursungi and Uruli Devachi was called off on Thursday after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) assured that the dumping of garbage in the villages would be stopped after seven months. Garbage had piled up in Pune …
Pune Pimpri-chinchwad : Electricity from refuse Pune Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade has called for generation of energy from garbage to resolve the long-pending dumping row; the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has embarked on a project on these lines. It hopes to start producing electricity from garbage in six months and …
Pune Mass transportation for the city and environment top the agenda of Mahesh Zagade, who took over as the new commissioner of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday. Zagade said his priority would be to focus on developing Pune
Two suspected patients of H1N1 flu, who arrived from Spain and the US, have been kept under observation. The patients were moved to the Naidu municipal hospital
NISHA NAMBIAR PUNE, MAY 8 PUNE leads the rest of the state by a huge margin in terms of investment through notified Special Economic Zones (SEZs) for the 2009 fiscal. It accounts for 13 of the 43 SEZs notified for the state as per the records of the Directorate of …
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), which has embarked upon counting the trees in the city last year, has decided to go for an extension of the project at least by another one year. The 'quizzical nature' of some property owners, who do not let the staff count the trees …
Govt makes it a must for civic bodies; Band had introduced the plan 5 years back Pune Divisional Commissioner Dilip Band's strong stand against autorickshawallahs has sent them on a protest. But Band has been unrelenting so far. A similiar no-nonsense approach of Band during his tenure as Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal …
Pune Health officials in Pune are not taking any chances as they work round the clock to keep any possible H1N1 virus (swine flu) from entering the city limits. Nowhere in the city was this as clear on Monday as at the Pune airport, where director J P Mathur and …
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation has set out to ensure that information on its website is regularly updated and authentic. It is making it compulsory for officials to publish the date of posting every report, project and circular along with the name of the author.
Pune Various social organisations have decided to oppose the civic administration proposal seeking four Floor Space Indices (FSI) within 500 m of proposed Metro corridor and BRT route for generating funds for Metro rail project in the city. In a press statement, the organisations said the proposal seems to indicate …
KAUSTUBH KULKARNI They have been travelling to work in air-conditioned cabs and luxurious coaches all these years. IT employees of Pune will now also have to get used to public transport buses. Cost pressures are forcing IT majors like Infosys Technologies, Tech Mahindra and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to opt …
Pune From Satara and Pimpri-Chinchwad to Taloja near Thane, at least 1,200 kg of bio-medical waste from Pune is transported every day for over 140 km for disposal. Ever since the disposal facility at Kailash crematorium in the city was shut down following a blast at the site, Pune
