Pune Several IT firms and IT parks have introduced parking fee for employees. Many of them say it is to encourage them to opt for car pools or use company transport. Infosys is also charging its staff for use of its nine-storey parking facility.
Pune The Pune Construction Engineering Research Foundation (PCERF), has organised Waste Busters, a symposium on the utilisation of waste materials for construction industry at Dr Bhanuben Nanavati College of Architecture, Karve nagar on August 2.
Pune The PMC Environment Status Report (ESR) has attributed the reason for water pollution to mix of sewage water in the existing water resources in the city jurisdiction.
The civic body plans to treat 100 per cent of sewage generated in the city by 2015.
Pune The city on Wednesday saw a lot of wind activity in most places, along with incessant rains.
Even as the wind velocity in the city on Tuesday was five nautical miles per hour (knots), it was low on Wednesday but could continue to scale up with the monsoon activity increasing in central Maharashtra.
Pune As many as 87 dengue cases have been reported from different parts of Pimpri-Chinchwad so far in this month. Similarly, 102 persons have been affected by malaria till July 22. The figures of dengue and malaria cases in July are the highest for any month recorded by the medical department of the PCMC this year.
Pune Two-thirds of those tested postive for the H1N1 virus in the state are from Pune. Till date, 30 people have been infected with H1N1 virus (swine flu) in Pune, of which 17 are children.
Dr Pradeep Awate, in charge of the swine flu control cell in Mumbai, said a total of 47 cases were reported in Maharashtra, of which 30 were from Pune.
Pune Heavy rainfall in the recent few days has been enough to turn the fortunes for the drinking water supply in city. It is another matter that it has not quite happened. This year, the city has five TMC more water than what it had during the corresponding period last year.
Pune/Hyderabad, July 19: Ten students of a Pune school have tested positive for H1N1 flu, taking the number of infected persons here to 21, health officials said on Sunday.
Around 60 students of standard eighth of Abhinav English medium school were under observation after a batch of five students was found positive for the virus on July 16.
