Environment

The Bombay Engineering Group and Centre (BEG) on Wednesday opened the Sangamwadi-Deccan College Road which was closed to the public in 2012 for security reasons. A senior army officer from BEG told TOI, “After the road closure, we had constructed a wall. The demolition work of this wall was going till Tuesday night. We opened the […]

Drive Stepped Up Now, Goes Beyond Fines Be prepared to temporarily bid goodbye to your driving licence if you are found with your earphones plugged in or you are caught talking on the cellphone while driving a car or riding a two-wheeler. The Pune traffic police on April 25 launched an intensified effort to curb

High-visibility plastic bollards that were installed along the various arterial roads of Vimannagar barely 10 days ago, have now mysteriously vanished — almost overnight. Civic activists from the area are alleging deliberate defacement and organised theft by unknown “miscreants”. The bollards were set in place by the Pune Municipal Corporation on the recommendation of the

About 15,000 people living at Manjarainagar in Mundhwa are stung by the mosquito menace. The rampant growth of water hyacinth, an aquatic plant that is highly invasive and commonly considered as the worst weed in the world, in the Mula-Mutha is the main reason for the problem. Residents of the housing societies of Manjarainagar near

Alarming PM10 Levels At Nal Stop & Swargate; PM2.5 Increases 70% In Five Years CPCB Blames Civic Bodies For Condition The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has sounded the death knell to 94 cities in the country where pollution levels are not meeting the set standards. Topping the chart are Maharashtra with 17 cities, including

The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) has scrapped its plan to purchase 800 buses that would run on petrol and diesel. Instead, the transport utility — following a nudge from chief minister Devendra Fadnavis — will acquire 500 electric buses over the next six months. The buses will be acquired under the gross capital

While it is a known fact that every development work conducted by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) comes with its fair share of complementary hardship the hapless citizens, it was the turn of residents and pedestrians of Ghole Road to discover this the hard way. They recently woke up to several massive-sized cement blocks dumped

Plastic found in the stomachs of a dead whale and cows was one of the reasons cited by the Maharashtra government before the Bombay high court on Wednesday to justify its ban on plastic across the state. A division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Riyaz Chagla is hearing four petitions filed by manufacturers

Residents Up Precautions To Swat Away Mosquitoes Living close to the rivers that snake through Pune is turning out to be an ordeal — residents in Bopodi, Wakdewadi, Vadgaonsheri, Kalyaninagar and Prabhat Road areas are grappling with a huge mosquito problem. In Bopodi-Aundh area, the rampant growth of water hyacinth, an aquatic plant that is

Citizens’ protests and complaints notwithstanding, the massive water tank on the slope of Vetal tekdi is nearing completion. The construction of the tank near Panchavati Society was stopped after TOI highlighted the issue in October last year. The report prompted the forest department to bar the Pune Municipal Corporation-hired contractor from continuing the work till