The UPA government, it seems, has moved to implement a proposal backed by several key ministers, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and the Prime Minister's Office that Dow Chemicals' business be facilitated in India even while the government pursues a case against it in the Bhopal gas disaster.

The civic standing committee on Tuesday gave its nod to appoint the Science and Technology Park (STP), Pune as the nodal agency for the execution of eco-housing programme and also to allocate Rs 21.10 lakh for STP, as expenses of conducting workshops and publishing information brochures, among other things. Even though the Science and Technology Park had shown interest in being appointed as the consulting agency and had filed a proposal to this effect moths back, there was some apparent disagreement over fees to be paid to the nodal agency.

The report readied by the committee to look into the Dow Chemical imbroglio has given a green signal for the construction at the Shinde village site, stating that it will be used only for research and development activities. It has also asked the company to get the requisite environmental clearance before they start operations and has asked the company to work with the local communities to generate employment opportunities for the villagers.

In the last three years, the city engineer's office of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) sanctioned a mind-boggling 15.69 crore sq ft for development in the city.

For a healthier tomorrow, doctors in the city are now launching a

MINISTER of State Revenue Dr Rajendra Shingane on Monday promised in the State Legislative Assembly that those citizens in Pune, whose properties were affected during the 1961 Panshet flood, would be

Even as nearly 4,000 people in the city are detected with tuberculosis every year, the numbers of those also resistant to drugs has increased over the years.

City-Based Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), in association with GreenLeaf Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd, has announced the launch of 3EBT, an innovative technology to produce biogas from de-oiled castor

The vehicle population of the city has risen from 13.53 lakh in 2006 to 14.76 lakh in 2007 and now stands at over 16 lakh.