PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: Commuters travelling through 20 busy chowks in Pimpri Chinchwad can soon expect some relief.

Pune: Developers in the city have a reason to cheer as now they can get environment clearance certificates at the corporation-level.

Pune: Students who love nature have an opportunity to pursue it as a career. Courses in biodiversity will provide them not only an inquisitive scientific approach, but also a profession.

Pune: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) bench here has imposed a Rs20,000 cost on a prominent automobile sales and service station at Wakdewadi for operating without a valid consent from the Mahara

PUNE: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday approved handing over of 19.9 hectares of forest land in Pimpri Sandas village, where Pune solid waste will be scientifically treated.

PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation received more than 100 suggestions at the meeting it held with citizens, NGOs and civic organizations on the management of city's garbage.

Pune: People residing in the fringes of the city continue to face problems due to the smoke from the burning of garbage.

PUNE: The Orchid Towers residential society in the Baner area has been dealing with daily waste through vermicomposting and bio composting successfully for more than four years now.

PUNE: While the city is struggling to manage its garbage effectively, Koregaon Park and its surrounding localities are recycling 16 tonnes of waste daily.

PUNE: A 61-year-old woman from New Sangvi was among the two persons who succumbed to swine flu-induced complications in the city last week, taking the number of H1N1 deaths to 51 so far this year.