Pune From now on, Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) may have to be cautious while sanctioning more industries, thanks to a study by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

Pune As the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) gears up to enforce a total ban on all types of polythene bags in its jurisdiction, traders are seeking parity of enforcement among civic bodies. Unlike PCB, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has banned only plastic bags below 50 microns.

Pune The State health department has registered two more deaths due to the HINI virus, including a 10-month-old baby and a 38-year-old woman. This takes the death toll due to swine flu to 180.

Pune In a bid to encourage tree plantation, the administration has planned to set up nearly 300 nurseries in schools in the district.

The plan envisages housing nurseries in all the high schools in the villages. Zilla Parishad CEO Sanjiv Kumar said that all the education officers have been intimated about this initiative and have been told to ensure children's participation in this drive.

Pune With an aim to generate employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for rural students, a residential diploma in basic rural technology
was recently launched by city-based voluntary organisation Astitva Pratishthan.

Pune A tie-up between potato research station in Gujarat and Rajgurunagar on the cards

When potato grower Ashok Bajare of Khed taluka went to Deesa

Pune For the first time in six months not a single case of H1N1 virus has been reported at Sassoon General Hospital in last two days. There has been a positive drop in the number of cases at the government hospital.

Predictably, plastic manufacturers are not amused. They assert that the drive contravenes State laws that ban only bags less than 50 micron thick.

Alka Kshirsagar

With the National Institute of Virology (NIV) admitting that the H1N1 viral transmission has not yet stopped, imported H1N1 vaccine will soon be administered to the high-risk groups of doctors and paramedics dealing with swine flu patients.