More Cases In State Than Last Yr; Pune’s Disease Burden Highest; Officials Blame Weather

Pune: The number of dengue cases in the state has shot up to an alarming high, with as many as 3,564 cases reported between January and October this year, more than twice the number in 2012 when 1,436 cases of the disease were reported.

MUMBAI: The frequency of leopard attacks around Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in the last one year has again raised fears among locals of the bigger human conflict with the wild.

Two days after the National Green Tribunal (western zone) fined two Mumbai developers for proposing small projects to bypass mandatory approval process by competent authorities and then expanding t

In a bid to check on industrial pollution, District Planning and Environment Committee is all set to conduct random checks on industries emptying effluents into rivers.

Pune: Forty-nine patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have died of the infection within 19 months of diagnosis and being put on anti-tuberculosis drugs in Pune district, the lat

It was immersion day and festivities were supposed to be loud. But at 114.4 decibels, it was deafening.

The H1N1 influenza has emerged as the biggest killer in Maharashtra this year cl-a-i-ming three times the number of lives taken by dengue and malaria put together, and six times if compared individ

There has been no let-up in decibel levels in the past three years during Ganesh festival.