Registration of healthcare facilities mandatory
These rules aim to make available a database of clinical establishments which are authorised to function and thereby improve public health quality by eliminating quacks The Union Ministry of public
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Andhra rejects Maharashtra's plea to withdraw cases related to Babhli
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NGO noise over silence zone in Mumbai
The state government
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Waste recycling to begin at Mumbai schools
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has initiated the second phase of its waste management project after recently signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state government on assessing the vulnerability of the state to climate change. For the second phase, TERI plans to involve students, teachers and the larger school community in the city.
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Three major rivers near Mumbai polluted: MPCB report
The Kundalika, Amba and Vashishti rivers near Mumbai are polluted with a high content of organochlorines and other persistent organic pollutants, as per the pre-monsoon tests undertaken by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on the rivers. The contamination is a result of industries letting out their untreated water into the rivers.
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Mumbai to get monorail by Sept 2011
The Mumbai Monorail project will take at least another year to be fully functional. Though the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) claims that it is ahead of time, according to sources, the project was delayed because of construction of the curves of the elevated alignment.
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Maharashtra Congress targets Sharad Pawars food policies
Be it at the Centre or at the state level, the Congress seems to have trained its guns on Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) party president and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar.
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BMC increases water supply by 100 million litres
With lakes starting to overflowing, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started providing additional 100 million litres of water per day, the officials said.
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Environment groups unite against Maharashtra govt
<p>Mumbai: A group of environmental NGOs on Tuesday decidedto petition the government to take quick action against complaints and FIRs filed by activists.<br />
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Cholera-like epidemic claims one in Ahmednagar, 500 fall sick
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra): A cholera-like epidemic is widely spreading in Bhingar and the adjoining camp areas in Ahmednagar and about 500 persons have fallen sick of it, the district civil hospital sources said today. Contaminated water supply and lack of cleanliness said to have caused the epidemic.
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Sea erosion threatens to wash away Mahim coastline
Mumbai: The Mahim coastline is fast disappearing, claim fishermen residing by the seafront. On Monday afternoon, sea water came gushing in and claimed portions of the land.