Creating an ecology park at the edge of a bustling city and campaigning for better energy efficiency

Pune Consuming 14.1 Thousand Million Cubic (TMC) water in a year when 11.5 TMC was earmarked for it, the civic administration has said that the irrigation department would have to increase the quota for the Pune Municipal Corporation in the next agreement between the two departments. The PMC had last signed an greement with the irrigation department on September 1, 2004.

Pune Civic body asks people to use water sparingly to avoid cuts like last year

At 20 per cent of their storage capacity, dams in Pune region have more water than reservoirs in other parts of the state.

With just a month for monsoon, the civic administration and the irrigation department are confident of not enforcing water cut if the citizens ensure proper use of water.

Pune In what it claims to be a first-of-its-kind study on Pune

Ahead of another monsoon, the National Institute of Virology (NIV) has in a conclusive piece of research said that the severity of the H1N1 influenza pandemic is less than that reported for

Pune Say plant hazardous to environment

Residents of Navlakh Umbre in Talegaon are unhappy with the proposed 2,500-MW power project in Talegaon by Hindustan Electricity Generation Company (HEGC).

Pune The Pune rural police have given a proposal to the District Collector for Joint River Patrolling (JRP) suggesting measures to check crimes related to lifting of sand from the river bed. This comes in the wake of the murder of Sharad Janardan Choudhary, a sand-lifting contractor, in Shirur on April 29.

Pune Aundh residents Rajendra and wife Sangeeta Joshi proudly display their property tax bill in which they have been awarded a rebate of five per cent. What makes the rebate doubly special is the fact that it

Pune The state government has sought explanation from the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) for the delay of four months in providing mid-day meal to children of its nine schools.

Pune More than two weeks after nearly 34,000 doses of the imported swine flu vaccine were procured by the state, the vaccination record among the high-risk population of doctors
and paramedical workers in Pune and other districts continues to be dismal.