Environment

Discharge To Stop If Rain Subsides The water storage at Panshet touched the 99.2%- mark on Monday evening, prompting the state irrigation department to discharge water from the dam — for the first time this monsoon — at the rate of 2,542 cusec. While the dam has a maximum storage capacity of 10.65TMC, on Monday, […]

Civic Body Urges Citizens To Use Road-Repair Helplines Q. When will the municipal corporation’s roads department fix potholes in the roads across the city? After, or before the monsoon ends? ( Shaurya Adit) A. The PMC has started a helpline which citizens can use to report potholes in our roads. The civic body will deploy staff and

Encroachment Adds To Woes Of Commuters Unregulated traffic on roads and chaos on footpaths have made travelling through Shivajinagar a commuter’s nighmare. With two bus termini –Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) and Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Ltd (PMPML) – and railway station in the vicinity, thousands of commuters travel through the area every day.

Two Critically Ill Patients With Health Issues Stage Recovery  Heartening as it may be that two dengue-infected patients who suffered from severe complications are currently on the road to recovery, private hospitals in the city on Tuesday reported 30 cases of dengue to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The number of dengue cases recorded in

Stocks To Be Available By Month-End Health officials of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) have floated tenders to procure insecticides to combat mosquito-borne diseases that usually spike during the monsoon. The much-needed medicines to curb mosquito breeding are expected to be available by the end of this month. In a report published on June 1, TOI had

Traders To Continue Bandh If Demands Not Met | Eateries Scramble For Substitutes | Marts Stockpile Eco-Friendly Bags No Cheap Option For Garbage Bin Liners Takes A Toll Day Two of the plastic ban, and citizens are facing an icky conundrum—What to put the wet waste in? Since the last couple of days, they have

Civic Body Not To Penalize People Initially Neha.Madaan@timesgroup.com Pune: Ban on plastic items, including carry bags, disposable cutlery as well as thermocol, comes into force from Saturday. Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations will implement the ban in the city. While PMC will spare citizens from paying any fine for flouting the ban for an

A 26-year-old courier delivery agent died and two of his friends suffered injuries after a motorcycle on which they were riding triple seat crashed into cement pipes on the roadside. The accident occurred on Monday night on the service road near Popularnagar on the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass. They were not wearing helmets. The deceased has

Residents Must Remove All Such Products From Homes Q. Dear PMC, when is the last day for housing societies to stop using all types of plastic? We need some clarity. What if we have a plastic jug or utensil we need to throw away? Should we separate it? What are the general rules of the plastic

The Wanowrie police on Monday arrested Sunil Bansode (21), a criminal on police record, and booked his brother Anil for trying to extort money from a civic contractor’s supervisor. The contractor’s men were working on concretisation of a road near Mohotadevi temple at Taravade vasti in Wanowrie around 8pm on Monday when the two brothers