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Water cut: hotels, restaurants take hit

Sunday 12 July '09

Saturdays and Sundays have cash registers ringing in food business.
Dengue fear looms amid scanty rain

Saturday 11 July '09

The practice of storing water in the summer months owing to water cut and absence of rainfall in June has led to a rise in number of dengue cases in the district this year.
Tough talk follows acute water scarcity

Thursday 9 July '09

Even as the business of private water tankers flourishes in the city, the service providers have demanded that the civic administration should revise the rates for their service as they cannot afford the given rates.
Fodder cost eats up dairy’s sop for milk suppliers

Wednesday 8 July '09

The Katraj Dairy’s offer of a rupee more for a litre of milk has put an additional burden of about Rs 40 lakh a month on the dairy.
Property tax: 1,000 locks to shut out defaulters

Friday 19 June '09

This is an open and shut case of a different kind. The tax collection department of the Pune Municipal Corporation has demanded that it be supplied with 1,000 locks...
On Golden Jubilee, Katraj Dairy plans array of new products

Monday 15 June '09

The Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Pune Zilha Sahakari Dudh Utpadak Sangh Maryadit, popularly known as Katraj Dairy...
State poll aspirants in drive to remove voter confusion

Monday 8 June '09

With the less-than-expected turnout in the recent Lok Sabha elections in Pune being partly blamed on problems in the voter list...
Rs 10 crore, collected for labourers’ welfare, still with corporation

Thursday 28 May '09

In view of the rising number of fatalities of labourers at construction sites, the state government had last year directed the local governing bodies to collect one per cent of the project cost as cess from builders.
Forest land to ease civic body’s garbage headache

Wednesday 27 May '09

In a move that would provide some respite to the Pune Municipal Corporation...
Switching over

Sunday 24 May '09

The village is set to become the first in Maharashtra to replace incandescent bulbs with CFLs
Monsoon oath: retain more water in dams

Sunday 24 May '09

Learning lessons from hardships arising out of scanty rain even during the normal months of monsoon last year...
Garbage from city hotels to village farmers: idea forced by agitation turns permanent

Thursday 21 May '09

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will regularise the practice of providing organic waste from hotels and restaurants to farmers around the city.
They risk their lives but no one cares

Tuesday 19 May '09

Despite the rising incidents of citizens, especially children, drowning in swimming pools, the Khadakwasla dam, not far from Pune, is being used as a free water park by citizens, unhindered and unchecked.
Politickle Moments

Sunday 17 May '09

After it became clear that Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi was ahead of all other candidates in terms of votes...
Long way to go for Pune to get ‘unwired’

Saturday 9 May '09

It is now two years since the Pune Municipal Corporation had launched the ‘Unwire Pune’ project, aimed at making it India’s first completely wireless city within a year.
‘Over quizzical’ property owners delay tree census

Wednesday 6 May '09

The Pune Municipal Corporation, which has embarked upon counting the trees in the city last year, has decided to go for an extension of the project at least by another one year.
Civic body drive against tax defaulters hits server bug

Wednesday 6 May '09

The Pune Municipal Corporation came out with a statement on Monday that it will crack down on tax defaulters with 'immediate' effect.
Chinese manja kills, ban it: bird watchers

Wednesday 29 April '09

Kites that add colour to the skies are subtracting birds from it, and fingers are being pointed at Chinese manja, a stronger version of the string used to fly kites.
Smoking: 1,563 penalised in a year

Sunday 26 April '09

Over the last one year, the Food and Drugs Administration has taken action against 1,563 people in Pune division...
Crocodile tears into vacation tourism profits

Saturday 25 April '09

The presence of a crocodile in Katraj Lake, which has already led to suspension of boating, is set to cause further revenue losses for the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation in May.
Candidates fast, seek blessings from deities and parents before casting votes

Friday 24 April '09

As the D-day finally arrived on Thursday, while some of the candidates visited temples, others sought blessings from their elders before going to cast their vote in the morning.
Environmentalists present green manifesto to LS aspirants

Thursday 23 April '09

On the occasion of Earth Day celebrations, nature lovers, environmentalists and environmental NGOs from Pune and rest of Maharashtra have come out with a list of do’s and don’t’s for the government and politicians in order to conserve nature in its pristine form.
Sowing seeds for an eco-friendly generation

Saturday 18 April '09

This summer vacation, schoolchildren will definitely relish the special ‘homework’ assigned to them by the State Social Forestry Department.
Year after, no move on shifting of statues at killer chowks

Sunday 12 April '09

Even after a year since Atharva Dongare, a schoolboy, was killed in a road accident near the Kakasaheb Gadgil statue in front of Shaniwarwada...
Why vote: villagers in garbage zone set to dump parties

Saturday 11 April '09

Failing to receive any positive response from the municipal corporation, the state government or the local politicians on their problem of garbage-dumping...
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