Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional mandates, many Indian cities are seeking to resolve the issue through parking policies, focusing on regulations, pricing as a management tool, new technologies, and off-street parking provisions. …
The electric field and Maxwell current density measured below 32 small isolated thunderstorms over Pune (India) have been analyzed here. These data clearly show the presence of 10 out of 32 thunderstorms with inverted polarity charge structure. Values of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) on thunderstorm days taken from MODIS show …
On the New Airport road in the west Indian city of Pune, five Vodafone billboards are doing more to help the drought-hit village of Pimpri Sandas than the local government. The billboards, fitted with tanks, are harvesting rainwater. When the tanks are full, a text message sounds on the mobile …
Pune: Echelon Cooperative Housing Society on Baner-Pashan Link Road gets its water from a tanker supplier who has doubled the charges at the start of summer. The 50-flat society is dependent completely on four tankers for its daily needs, but its members are trying to negotiate a better deal with …
Judgement of the High Court of Delhi in the matter of Jacob Puliyel Vs Union of India & Others dated 14/10/2015. This petition, by way of Public Interest Litigation, is filed seeking a direction to the respondents to provide complete data of the results of the Multi Centre Clinical Trial …
Oil companies and Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) are collaborating to make Pune India’s first carbon-free city by 2040, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan has said. Here to launch the pilot of a slew of new initiatives for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and piped natural …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to submit a report on compliance of authorization given to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for disposal of garbage at Uruli Devachi and Phursungi landfill sites and the process for monitoring of such a compliance. The …
Swine flu claimed three lives - one each in Pune, Latur and Kolhapur - on Saturday, while the condition of 19 other patients in the state is currently critical and they have been put on ventilator support. Of the 19 patients, 17 are being treated at hospitals in Pune. "Seven …
Public sector undertakings, corporates and even residential property developers are opting increasingly for environment-friendly buildings. On May 15, Piyush Goyal, Union minister for power, coal and new and renewable energy, was in Kolkata to inaugurate the new headquarters of Coal India Limited. He arrived well before the scheduled time to …
Constructed at a cost of over Rs 8 crore, the Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in the industrial area of Kurkhumb (Daund taluka of Pune) leaves much to be desired in terms of its performance. While the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) claims the CETP is functioning well, reports by …
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is gearing up to make a presentation before Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its solid waste management and sanitation management initiative after representatives of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog made a special visit to study the best practices of the civic body …
NAGPUR: The union highways and transport ministry headed by Nitin Gadkari and environment ministry by Prakash Javadekar seem headed for a face-off over wildlife mitigation measures in four-laning of NH-7 and NH-6 in the Central Indian landscape. The latest report on proposed mitigation measures for maintaining habitat contiguity and reducing …
The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) plans to decompose organic waste to generate biogas at the unused dome of the old sewage treatment plant (STP) in Kasba Bawda. Following the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) directive of decentralizing solid waste processing, the KMC will set up the biogas facility in association with …
The May 12 Government Resolution offering at least 25 per cent more compensation to land owners than what was envisaged in the central land acquisition Act of 2013 will help speed up at least 1,000 pending cases of land acquisition in Pune, say district officials. Most of these cases involve …
After an interim order was passed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), the green court has now put severe restrictions on live bands or DJ music and other noisy celebrations at weddings. Speaking with iamin, Asim Sarode, activist and lawyer said, “According to the order, marriage processions on roads should …
MUMBAI: The main sources of air and noise pollution in the state, especially in Mumbai, are vehicles while domestic sewage has been found majorly responsible for water pollution in rivers. Noise pollution levels have exceeded during working and non-working days in areas like Shivaji Park and Antop Hill, while the …
After around 300 swine flu deaths in Maharashtra, the state government is planning to bring in an emergency medical services act to integrate various stakeholders in the health sector to counter epidemics and outbreaks. It has also set up a committee of experts to examine the mutations in the H1N1 …
Pune-based Western Zone bench of the National Green Tribunal has directed the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), the City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to pay a compensation of Rs 95.19 crore to the 1,630 fishermen families in Uran and Panvel talukas …
In a bid to enhance awareness of the hazards of air pollution, India’s first ‘air quality’ Mobile App, SAFAR-Air, was launched on Tuesday at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune. The application, developed by scientists at IITM, will enable citizens to check their city’s air quality in real …
Now one can check real-time air quality in certain parts of Delhi and Pune. The ministry of earth sciences (MoES) has launched a smartphone app called ‘SAFAR-Air’ to provide the data to people. It also provides a forecast for the next two days and a health advisory along with a …
A whopping 3,440 dengue cases were detected from June to September though the death toll this year was a minuscule nine in comparison. The viral disease saw health officials on alert conducting exercises to contain the disease. Cases shot up since June sending health officials into a tizzy. They started …
