Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) has claimed that the proposed 165-km pipeline for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from Uran, near Mumbai, to Shikrapur via Chakan in Pune district will not pose any safety hazard for villages along its route.
This was revealed to DNA by the senior regional manager HPCL, PN Kanth, on Sunday.

On the eve of the World Biodiversity Day, which will be observed on Sunday, city-based environmentalists and activists raised their concerns about Pune

A non-governmental organisation (NGO) has objected to the locus standi of the Lavasa Corporation Ltd inviting suggestions and objections from citizens to the draft development proposals of Lavasa Hill Station (LHS).

Civic activist Sujit Patwardhan has objected to the authority of Lavasa Planning Authority Committee (LPAC) for preparing such a proposal and filed objections on behalf of the NGO,

The latest Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, announced by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) in February came under sharp focus at a meeting of plastic manufacturers, social activists and civic officials held in the city on Wednesday.

The new rule states that plastic bags less than 40 microns thick will not be allowed.

The environment ministry

Even as the state-owned oil companies have hiked prices of petrol from Saturday midnight, the city non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have demanded abolition of cess collected by the Centre on petrol and diesel.

President of Sajag Nagrik Manch (SNM), Vivek Velankar has demanded that the Central government should abolish cess of Rs2 per litre on petrol and diesel as it has become redundant.

The Association of Friends of Japan (AFJ), Pune, handed over a cheque ofRs55,051 to the Mumbai-based consul general of Japan, T Mochida, as part of their Japan tsunami relief fund last week.

In a press statement, AFJ said that the monies had been collected from common Puneites.

Emboldened by the interim stay order issued by the Bombay high court on Thursday against construction by civic bodies on river beds, activists in Pune have demanded an immediate cessation of all work related to river bed improvement and storm water drainage.

Right to information (RTI) activist, Vijay Kumbhar, issued a notice to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Saturday, asking for immedi

The decks have been cleared for kidney transplants in Pune after a decision by the state government to issue a letter to hospitals across the state promising to provide two state government nominees to authorise all transplants.

Transplants had been suspended in city hospitals since April 1.An amendment in the Human Organ Transplant Act in June 2008 had made it mandatory for the presence of two

The National Asthma Control Mission (NACM) was launched on Saturday at the city-based Chest Research Foundation (CRF).
Thirty doctors from across India attended a round-table conference to discuss issues related to the adherence of asthma therapy.

CRF programme coordinator Dr Monica Barne told DNA the mission was launched to coincide with World Asthma Day on May 3.