Health care should be cheaper and more accessible

N H ANTIA Director of the Foundation for Research in Community Health, Pune, Maharashtra is striving to promote the concept of better health care …

For a green house

UV rays can aggravate risks from heat wave

Data show UV index dangerously high in Delhi, other Indian cities

Lavasa accepts green riders, finally

It had challenged the conditions, saying it would amount to guilt  

H1N1 caught India sleeping

Howl of the hills

Pune is clean

Experts give them a miss

Dead end for diesel buses

Polluting public transport vehicles sent packing as apex court refuses to extend green makeover deadline

Medicinal tree survives tissue culture process

Tissue culture technique for medicinal tree succeeds

Scrap Lavasa township: petition

Pune project does not have environmental clearance from Centre

Mystery fever stalks Surat

Three persons have died in the past three days; help sought from National Institute of Virology to identify disease

Bombay high court gives six weeks' time to Lavasa

Asks to submit documents to environment ministry by March 10

Logistics giant DHL goes eco-friendly

Can clay idols replace all PoP idols?

Sale of clay idols is on the rise, but switching completely to clay is not easy

14 km from Pune, its footprint

Ozone: good news and bad news

Hole in the ozone layer is healing, but ground level ozone is destroying crops that could feed a third of India’s poor

Pune protests Dow research facility

Carcinogenic benzene levels peak in Delhi

Petrol pumps and heavy traffic locations worst affected

Industrialisation bringing acid rain to India

Maharashtra, pollution board differ on Dow plant

Pune police to crack down on noise on New Year’s Eve

Green tribunal orders confiscation of cars fitted with unauthorised DJ systems to check noise pollution

How harmful is PoP to the environment?

Artisan groups say PoP is made from naturally occurring substance and does not the affect the environment; activists say its impact is long-term

Are humans increasingly responsible for extreme weather events?

Weather extremes are often so overwhelming that it is hard for us to imagine that we may actually be increasingly responsible for at least some …

Maharashtra elections: Welfare dominates tribal mandate

Vote likely to be split between the Congress, NCP and BJP