Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) plans to purchase 665 buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

Bapu Gaikwad, assistant transport planner of the civic traffic cell, said, “The Union government has sent letters to various cities, including Pimpri Chinchwad, informing them that it had extended the period of the JNNURM up to March 2014. The government will provide funds to the cities to purchase a total 10,000 buses to improve public transport.”

Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) waste-to-green energy project from processing garbage in Hadapsar has run into trouble.

Mumbai: Why is the state government sitting on the policy guidelines to regulate cell tower installation across Maharashtra though they were drafted two years ago, ask citizens from Thane, Navi Mum

Sadiccha cooperative housing society on Paud road reduced its monthly electricity bill by almost Rs 10,000 in July, when it first switched over to compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) for its common are

Pune, home to an H1N1 outbreak in 2009, is battling a fresh one with 232 found positive since January.

As many as 21 people have tested positive for swine flu in Pune city till date this month. Among them, four have succumbed to the infection.

Large scale tree-cutting, destruction of hills and quarrying, pollution of water bodies and the erection of cellphone towers are taking a toll on the diverse habitats available for birds in the cit

Healthcare Providers Submit List After Govt Rule Made It Mandatory In 2012

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has recorded 727 fresh cases of tuberculosis (TB), as reported by private hospitals in the city ever since it was made a notifiable disease by the Union government last May. This is in addition to the 300 cases on an average reported every month from the civic and government hospitals.

For most Puneites, traffic and transport pose the worst kind of problems.

Green activists have alleged that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has failed to comply with an interim order of the Bombay high court directing the civic body to issue notices to those who hav