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
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
The incidence of oral cancer could see a drop. This is the hope held out by a survey conducted four months after the state banned gutkha and pan masala in July. Of a total of 2,500 respondents, 94%
A senior officer of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) was at the receiving end when angry residents of Kelwe, 90km from Mumbai, poured bottles of polluted water on him. MPCB’s Tarapur regional
With the onset of migration of Flamingos and other migratory birds to Mumbai, bird watchers and ornithologists have demanded that the long-pending proposals to declare the Thane and Sewri wetlands, which
It was a shivery Monday morning form Punekars with the city recording 7.9 degrees Celsius, its lowest temperature so far this winter. Monday morning’s recorded temperature is 6.5 degrees below normal for
Fifty years ago, the Juhu airport was declared a green zone in spite of it being home to India’s first civil aviation airport. Now, in an attempt to cover up the blunder, the state government has suggested
The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board’s (MPCB) data on noise pollution across 45 areas in Mumbai shows that there wasn’t a noteworthy drop in noise levels this year. The data, which is a preliminary
Despite several campaigns being organised to raise awareness about the hazards of firecracker-induced noise pollution, expect a noisy Diwali this year too. The reasons: there is a lack of awareness among
Putting up cell sites, or mobile phone towers, as they are popularly known, atop residential buildings will now be a tall order. For, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to put a cap of
More than seven years after the biannual open air firecracker tests started, have they been reduced to empty theatrics with no impact? Even though a drop has been registered in the number of crackers found
It was the lull before the storm. After a significant drop last fiscal, the number of deaths from swine flu has shot up by about 800% in the state this year. A total of 113 deaths were registered till