The lanes of Bindal, with stalls selling colourful Ganesha idols, have been buzzing with customers over the past few days.

Pune: A group of activists and citizens have signed a petition to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis to heed the Supreme Court judgments and restore the silence zones.

The Supreme Court sought to know which chemicals should not be used beyond a limit in the firecrackers and observed that guidelines on this have to be laid down.

Pune: Nanasaheb Shendkar had a thriving business of thermocol decorative items that he made in his own factory.

MYSURU: Join to Help Charitable Trust, under its Mruthyunjaya Scheme, will distribute free eco-friendly Ganesha idols to people.

This is not the first time a minister has come forward to highlight the benefits of environment-friendly idols.

“With no silence zones, it will be a lot easier to get permissions for mandals around hospitals and educational institutes.

CHENNAI: Wind power generation fell to 495MW on Monday night from nearly 3000MW a few days ago.

MUMBAI: Seventeen years after Noise Pollution Rules came into force, the Centre last week made changes to the law, putting a question mark over the fate of silence zones across the country.

Meanwhile in Thane, which witnesses high decibel levels during Gokulashtami celebrations saw lesser number of events organised as compared to last year