Pune Fifty pigs have died in a fortnight in Jalgaon but humans need not worry about swine flu, the animal husbandry department says. The disease that killed the pigs was not swine flu but swine fever, which does not pass on to humans, DS Zagade, commissioner of animal husbandry, said on Sunday.

New Delhi: India could soon be part of a global hunt to create the world

Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is all set to spend Rs 20 lakh a year, for the next five years, on creating environmental awareness. The amount has been earmarked as expenses to impart awareness lessons to 20,000 schoolchildren and 1,000 teachers next month onwards.

NEW DELHI | PUNE: With the World Health Organisation (WHO) declaring the extent of swine flu only two stages away from developing into a pandemic, the Union Health Ministry has pressed the panic button. Unlike the Ministry

Pune, April 27 The Union Health Ministry has mandated April 30 as the date on which the public health system will switch over from conventional disposable syringes to auto disable (AD) ones, which become dysfunctional after a single use.

Pune On the occasion of Earth Day celebrations, nature lovers, environmentalists and environmental NGOs from Pune and rest of Maharashtra have come out with a list of do

Indapur (Pune): Jaising Nagre makes a living by fishing in the Ujjani dam backwaters in Indapur. Nagre, who is from the Bhoi community, says that in the last decade around 3,000 fishermen from other states have settled down around the Ujjani dam and have evicted the locals from plum fishing zones. There are around 6,000 local fishermen from the Bhoi community who fish in the river waters.

A delegation of write-pickets from the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) an association elf waste-pickers from Pune, and the national alliance of waste-picker's' organisations, presented the Lok Sabha candidates with a petition asking them to pass a - "Recycling Policy', which gives due place to the waste-pickers and the informal recycling sector.