Lavasa Corporation is still awaiting clearance from the Union ministry of Environment (MoEF) on its planned hill city project near Pune.

The final results of the Phase I prime-boost AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) vaccine trial started in February 2009 and conducted at the two sites — Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), Chennai, and the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Pune — has shown that the vaccines are safe and their ability to elicit immune response are modest.

The Pune-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Parisar, has taken strong exception to the comments made by some Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) corporators in connection with the role of NGOs

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) will pass its final order in the Lavasa case within three weeks. The ministry informed the Bombay High Court on Monday.

The three-week-long ‘Summer School on sustainable habitats’ will be held in four cities in India, including Pune, from September 5-23.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) today informed the Bombay High Court that it would pass its final order in the Lavasa case within three weeks.

Many parts of the city on both banks of the Mutha river were affected by floodwaters on Saturday as 67,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water, the maximum in the season, was released from Khad

Being stuck in traffic is one of those unavoidable frustrations of urban living.

Pune Construction activity at Lavasa, Pune — being developed by Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) — has been at a standstill for the last nine months as the stop work order issued by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is yet to be withdrawn.

The chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), CP Gautam, on Sunday said more than 60% of distilleries in the state do not comply with pollution control laws, becoming a major source o