Senior activist and Narmada Bachao Andolan spokesperson, Medha Patkar, on Monday threatened to launch a massive agitation in Satara and Pune districts if the problems of the project affected people (PAP) are not resolved soon.

Patkar was in Pune for a meeting with the state minister for rehabilitation and forests, Patangrao Kadam, on the issue of rehabilitation of PAP in Pune.

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Pune-based start-up develops a new model of construction that cuts cost and reduces labour

A masonry product that cuts out the use of cement and sand and does not require water curing is what Punebased Green Build Products has developed as its core product line.

Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology of the Sahyadri Hills. Its developer and political patrons bent rules and circumvented environmental law while building it. Resultant landslides could endanger the city. Read this special report published in DownTo Earth. 

The state government

Rs56,701 for one square foot of land in Kharadi?

Experts worldwide might well have concluded that H1N1 has run its course , but closer home the deadly virus continues to take its toll.

The court of judicial magistrate first class (JMFC), R D Hazare, has directed Niranjan Hiranandani, chairman and managing director of Hiranandani Group of Companies and his wife Kamal Hiranandani, director of the group

Mumbai: The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) told the Bombay high court on Wednesday that it accepted a March 3 recommendation by the expert appraising committee to permit completion of 257 buildings in Lavasa subject to several stringent conditions.
Lavasa Corporation in turn said it wanted to withdraw its petition against the MoEF, questioning its jurisdiction.

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The Environment Ministry

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