Pune: The city's medical fraternity has supported the government's proposal to impose higher tax on junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages.

Pune: The National Green Tribunal bench here has directed a show-cause notice to be issued to the state-level expert appraisal committee (SEAC) for withholding environment clearance (EC) proposals

Pune: The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) along with Wetlands International is organizing Asian Waterbird Census (AWC) to count waterbirds all over India.

Pune: The recent diagnosis of two Japanese encephalitis (brain inflammation) cases in Pune has set alarm bells ringing with medical experts calling for a close watch on the situation.

Pune: The State Environmental Appraisal Committee, in a bid to crack down on non-compliance, has decided not to grant clearances to any new stone quarries in Pune district.

Pune: Water borne diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid and viral hepatitis affected as many as 6,012 people in the state while claiming 30 lives in 2016, against the 5,175 cases and seven deat

PUNE: The winter chill may have brought down the number of dengue infections in the city but the virus continues to wreak havoc among those infected.

PUNE: On most days, Priti Shahane's daughters, aged four and nine years, find it difficult to sleep beyond 6am, although they are not expected to be up for school before 7.30am.

Pune: The number of deaths and infections caused by dengue in Maharashtra have risen significantly this year.

Chikungunya continues to infect a sizable number of people across the state even as winter has set in.