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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Solving water crisis top priority: Municipal commissioner
Mumbai: Swadhin Kshatriya took charge as the municipal commissioner on Friday, and immediately identified his biggest challenges -- to solve the financial crisis of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation [BMC], and to deal with the acute water crisis in the city. "To get things in shape, I will need a lot of support from the Mumbaikars," he said.
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No mining at Tadoba, says forest ministry
Mumbai: The proposed coal mining projects by Adani Power Limited and Maharashtra Coal Company Limited near the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, in Chandrapur district, suffered the final blow when the ministry of environment and forest refused to give the projects a go ahead.
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Forest dept looks to MP, goes hi-tech
Mumbai: The state forest department will soon go hi-tech in its protection activities in tiger reserves across the state. It has decided to equip forest officers in these reserves with personal digital assistants (PDA) to track wildlife offences and incidents like fires.
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Barc seminar aims to take beneficial tech to rural India
Mumbai: Scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc) should work with external stakeholders and beneficiaries to facilitate technology pull and support and push technologies for wealth generation in rural India, according to Anil Kakodkar, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission.
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Over two lakh cases pending under forest rights Act in Maharashtra
Mumbai: The implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and other forest dwellers (recognition of forest rights) Act, 2006, has been delayed in Maharastra, as the state has cleared only 4,500 cases in a year. "The state has received 2.77 lakh claims under the Act and 4,500 have received final approval since February 2008," principal secretary for tribal department PS Meena told PTI.
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Phyan affect: Longer wait for alphonsoes
Mumbai: Alphonso mangoes will not hit the markets on time next season; blame it on Cyclone Phyan. And when it does, the quantity may not be enough for the connoisseurs of the luscious fruit. As the flowering of the mangoes has been destroyed by the cyclone in the Konkan area where it is mostly grown, the rates are destined to soar.
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FDA seizes energy drinks worth more than Rs1 crore
Mumbai: In a clear violation of a 2008 amendment to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act banning energy drinks with caffeine content more than 145 parts per million (ppm), the import and distribution of these drinks continues unabated.
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Swine flu toll reaches 31 in Mumbai
But health authorities and experts say the death of a 57-year-old Mira road resident is no indicator of a second wave.
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Family planning can influence adaptation of rising sea: UNFPA
Mumbai: Giving a new angle to the climate change the United Nations Population fund (UNFPA) today said family planning, reproductive health care and gender relations could influence the future course of climate change and affect how humanity adapts to rising seas, worsening storms and severe droughts.
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Country's energy plan is anti-poor
Mumbai: International environmental activist group Greenpeace has released a report, Still Waiting, which reveals that despite growth in electricity generation and increasing carbon emissions, India's rural poor continue to be deprived of electricity.