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Pune Collector Chandrakant Dalvi has decided to crack the whip on gram panchayats that have not constructed toilet blocks and nearly 600 sarpanchs and panchayat members will be stripped off their posts for not adhering to rules. The move comes as part of the effort to make Pune an open defecation-free district by June next year.
Pune Tree lovers and activists on Wednesday staged a protest dharna at the state government spot near Council Hall where 23 trees, including rare specimens like Sita Ashok, were cut last week. The trees were cut with the permission of Defence Estate.
Pune MHADA-CITY KHORWADI: Low-cost housing project on 100 acres A 100-acre plot in Khorwadi village in Daund Taluka, meant for a mega, low-cost housing project, has been recently handed over to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA). The project will come up on a grazing area but the villagers seem unaware of the project.
Mumbai: In a move to make green buildings more energy efficient, the Centre has decided to lower the connected load of such buildings to 100KW (kilowatts) from the existing 500KW. The Union ministry of power has already tabled the Energy Conservation Amendment Bill 2009 in the parliament to change the norms of green buildings, Ajay Mathur, director general, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, said.
Mumbai: Kiran TareMukesh Ambani's Reliance has sacked 1,200 of the 1,600 employees from its proposed Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Raigad district. It, anti-SEZ activists say, signals that Reliance is winding up the project.
Mumbai: Taking a cue from the enormous number of hurdles it had to face acquiring land for the car depot of its first ever metro corridor from Versova to Ghatkopar, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has identified about 1,045 acres of land across the city, which it proposes to acquire. This land will be utilised for the upcoming six lines of metro in the city.
MUMBAI: Members of the BMC's Tree Authority have accused the municipal corporation of not maintaining proper records of its meetings.
MUMBAI: If MMRDA's plans go right, Mumbai will get shorter. Parallel to the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link, the government agency plans to have a Metro corridor to bridge the distance between Navi Mumbai's residential nodes and south Mumbai. Officials say the addition of Metro tracks would bring travel time along the 22-km route down to 35 minutes.
SANJAY JOG Mumbai, 21 December In the aftermath of scanty rainfall, Mumbai
Mumbai Even as the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) issued a notification to zoos and forest departments to transfer captive elephants to sanctuaries or animal reserves, Mumbai
Mumbai All civic hospital in the city should be made eco-friendly by adopting the green building concept, said Mayor Shraddha Jadhav on Sunday. She was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of Kohinoor Hospital in Kurla
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There have been bad seasons before but poor monsoon has left the city facing its worst water crisis. As tempers rise and protests grow, Mumbai has enough to last just another 200 days
Nagpur: Animal husbandry, dairy development and fisheries minister Nitin Raut today informed the legislative council that the State government is planning to develop dairy tourism on the hundreds of acres land of Aarey Milk Dairy in Mumbai.
Mumbai: The BMC's order to stop supplying water to 1,000-odd parks and gardens in the city from March 2010 has put Mumbai's green cover in danger of further deterioration.
Mumbai: You can keep a Mumbaikar from his car, but not his car from the daily car wash. This is amply evidenced by the fact that despite facing its worst water crisis ever, the city's nearly 2 million vehicle owners continue to splash 20 million litres on their vehicles every day.
Mumbai: Even as the world leaders were slugging it out at the Copenhagen climate change summit, a group of Mumbaikars gathered at Shivaji Park grounds on Saturday to seed a green movement to mitigate the horrors of climate change.
Mumbai Every day, Mumbai generates millions of litres of sewage that, if properly treated and recycled, could have helped ease the current water shortage. Practically all of it goes into the Arabian Sea, giving it a stink and a brackish colour, when citizens could have used it for various purposes.