Pune Fifteen residents from Khadki on Monday sat on a hunger strike protesting the delay in the construction of a new Elevated Service Reservoir (ESR). The existing ESR, built in 1976, is in a dilapidated condition causing leakage of water from the reservoir.
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has won the second prize in national energy conservation awards for the year for its efforts on energy conservation through use of advance technology for streetlights.
Pune With UN climate change conference set to begin next week in Copenhagen, city-based Centre for Development Education (CDE) has been working on a module to involve youngsters in such campaigns. As part of this, the students of Fergusson College observed a No Vehicle Day on Thursday with an objective to educate students about global warming.
After the Pune Municipal Corporation on Wednesday admitted that it is not possible to stop the open dumping of garbage and find alternative sites by December 15 deadline, May 2010 has been set as the new deadline.
It has been roughly assessed that the amount of iron wasted due to corrosion is one-fourth of the world production. The direct loss due to corrosion in India amount to Rs 200 crore/annum while money spent annually in controlling corrosion is the order of Rs 50 crore. The water quality plays a important role in corrosion.
Pune The city is staring at a major problem as the December 15 deadline for stopping garbage dumping in Uruli Devachi draws near with no alternative location in place. As a temporary measure, the civic administration is now busy exploring the possibility of using land in each of the 14 wards in the city for waste management.
Pune Sixteen-year old Roopak Karulkar and 14-year-old Trupti Joshi from Pune are all set to participate in the much-talked-about United Nations' climate change
Pune A study conducted in the city, involving 300 mothers and their babies, to assess the effects of bivalent oral polio vaccine (bOPV) has helped in changing the national policy on the issue. The India Advisory Group in Polio Eradication has now recommended the use of bOPV
Pune A random survey by city-based Chest Research Foundation (CRF) has found that seven out of 100 persons in Pune have got airways obstruction (obstruction of windpipe).
The foundation has set up detection booths in various parts of the city, since Monday, as part of World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) day on November 18.
