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
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Parking space created for 27,835 vehicles
Mumbai: Ever since the government permitted FSI incentives in lieu of setting up public parking facilities, proposals for parking lots on private land are increasing by the day. Thirty-one proposals have so far been cleared by the state-appointed committee in 18 months.
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No order on helipads, Bombay high court asks for silence zone details
Alok Deshpande / DNA Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Thursday declined to give any injunction to construction of helipads in private buildings in the city. You may also want to see The court, instead, gave the state government four weeks time to file an affidavit on the condition of silence zones demarcated by local governing bodies in different parts of the state.
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Jairam Ramesh fires fresh salvo, at Ashok Chavan this time
Mumbai: The Union minister of state for environment and forest Jairam Ramesh is at it again. After taking on his cabinet colleagues from the mines, coal, power and surface transport ministries, the no-nonsense minister is now talking tough to the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Rajasthan, both of whom are from the Congress.
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Mumbai school starts a monsoon awareness campaign
<p>Mumbai: This monsoon, all schoolchildren have been forewarned and are forearmed for the rains. At the Monsoon and Child Health, a monsoon preparation campaign conducted by Billabong High International School, Santa Cruz, Dr Bhupendra Awasthi meted out advice to students about how to avoid falling ill this monsoon.<br />
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Migrants may change Mumbai's polio stats
Mumbai: The polio round scheduled to be held on July 18 in Mumbai is likely to have the Bivalent vaccine for the first time. This is despite the fact that there has not been a single polio case in the city since 2008. But the authorities fear that with the increasing migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, there are possibilities of polio cases being reported in the city.
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Ease coastal regulation zone norms for Mumbai's growth
Mumbai: The state government has decided to adopt the middle path on the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) to strike a balance between environment and development in Mumbai. The Centre has convened a meeting with the state ministry of environment next week, to outline the controversial CRZ draft proposal that has met with stiff resistance from various quarters in Mumbai.
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150 people fined in Mumbai for throwing plastic bags in drains
Mumbai: Cracking the whip on all those throwing plastic bags in drains, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has fined nearly 150 people and collected a fine of Rs1.32 lakh in a fortnight.
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Aurangabad zoo introduces 'adopt an animal' scheme
Mumbai: It has become fashionable these days for the elite to adopt an animal of their choice from the zoo. To cash in on the fad, zoos across the country are introducing animal adoption schemes, and the zoo in Aurangabad is the latest to jump onto the bandwagon.