The report of the Central Groundwater Board (CGWB) said that as many as 31% of the wells analysed in Maharashtra in November 2014 had water levels a good 5 to 10 metres below the surface.

PUNE: Waste materials like thermocol, plastic carry bags below 50 microns and aluminium food packets will turn into handicrafts thanks to a pilot project taken up by eCoexist and Studio Alternative

PUNE: Municipal commissioner Kunal Kumar has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation's garden department to conduct a joint hearing of the roads department and NGOs after the PMC's proposal of cutt

PUNE: Just as the urban development ministry will assist cities with population of 10 lakh plus in setting up the urban metropolitan transport authority (UMTA), it will also help them have a traffi

PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has asked the state government to consider devising a policy for use of fire crackers at public places during private marriage processions, rel

PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench in Pune has restrained Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) from offloading garbage at Uruli Devachi's dumping site unless the veracity of the Maharashtra

PUNE: The National Green Tribunal bench in Pune has restrained two developers from constructing a resort-cum-hotel on a hill top at Lonavla for causing environmental degradation and also endangerin

PUNE: The rural areas of Pune and Thane districts can expect to get Bharat Stage IV fuel — an environment-friendly alternative — from April 1 next year.

For more than a decade, the Abasaheb Garware College has offered an MSc course in biodiversity with the department emerging as a centre for research in this field.

PUNE: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a committee to carry out a survey of Ramnadi and asked the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authorit