Consultant asked to rework plan
Swatee Kher The state government has asked the Navi Mumbai airport project consultant Louis Berger to submit a detailed plan, with changes in some aeronautical aspects, by October 4 to help reduce the project
Swatee Kher The state government has asked the Navi Mumbai airport project consultant Louis Berger to submit a detailed plan, with changes in some aeronautical aspects, by October 4 to help reduce the project
For cancer patients and their families, some good news is on the cards.
Mumbai The state government has asked Louis Berger, consultant for the Navi Mumbai airport project, to submit by October 4 a plan with changes in some aeronautical aspects to help reduce its impact on the environment.
Pune Even as rivers in Pune district have been marked as grade four
Observation Research Foundation (ORF) plans to take a delegation to the civil aviation minister Praful Patel on the issue of a second airport for Mumbai.
If the capacity and efficiency of Mumbai
Mumbai While the proposed Navi Mumbai airport waits for clearance, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has said convenience of passengers should be kept in mind while considering the location.
THE proposed Navi Mumbai airport is inching closer to getting clearance with the Maharashtra government signalling that it is ready to make changes to the project plan to address environmental concerns. Changes are needed in plans such as development of hotels and the alignment of the runway.
Concerned about side-effects of chemicals on farming lands, Maharashtra government has taken an initiative to encourage organic farming in the state and come up with a policy draft for the purpose. "Repeated use of fertilisers and pesticides have reduced fertility of the land.
The Maharashtra state government seems to have finally heard complaints voiced by developers and other stakeholders about the inordinate delay in getting environment clearance for their projects. In a first, the government has requested the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to permit the setting up of a second State level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC) in order to cope with th
Soon after winning the DNA Eco-Ganesha award on Saturday night for the eco-friendly idol and decorations he put up during the recently concluded Ganeshotsav, Om Prakash Bhutra went home feeling an accomplished man.
Even before the intra-ministry spat over the Navi Mumbai airport has settled, the comments made by union ministerof state for science and technology Prithviraj Chavan over the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project, which is yet to gain environment clearance, have invited voices of discontent from activists and experts. At a press conference on Saturday in Mumbai, Chavan had given a clean-chit
<p>HIV-positive cases in children on the riseIt’s an alarming fact that has made the Union health ministry sit up and take notice: data from across the country is showing a rise in the number of paediatric HIV cases. Of the 2.5 million people with HIV in India today, four per cent are below 15 years.
When Kanpur businessman Vivek Chaturvedi took up farming as a full-time occupation in 2004, he had no way of knowing that he would usher in a revolutionary farm machine six years later. Chaturvedi's innovation, an ox-driven pump, can pull up 25,000 litres of water in just an hour from depths of 150 feet without the use of electricity or fuel.
VISHAL, the son of a farm labourer in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is almost four. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort. She slips Vishal
VISHAL, the son of a farm labourer in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, is almost four. He should weigh around 16kg (35lb). But scooping him up from the floor costs his nursery teacher, a frail woman in a faded sari, little effort. She slips Vishal
The fossil diatoms and geochemistry of the lake water and sediments of Ambazari Lake, Nagpur were studied. The diatoms assemblages with the characteristics of different salinity regimes and pH have been identified and grouped from the bottom (unit I) to the top (unit III) of the core. Units I
Epidemiological transition is a process whereby the predominant causes of death shift from communicable/parasitic diseases to non-communicable diseases. A study of the Medical Certification of Cause of Death in Maharashtra shows that the share of communicable diseases has gone down only slightly while diseases of the circulatory system, neoplasm and injuries have increased significantly.
The Toys Society of India (TSI) on Thursday told the Bombay high court that if the norms laid down by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) are made mandatory, it will lead to loss of livelihood for many smaller toy manufacturers across India. In a PIL filed by Consumer Welfare Association urging the court to order action against the sale of toxic toys manufactured in India and those imported fr
Indian Coast Guard (CG) today asked the owner of MSC Chitra to cough up Rs 2.5 crore for the operations carried out to contain oil spill damage caused by the ship after it collided with another merchant vessel. Last month, the state government has also sought Rs 3 crore from MSC Chitra for clean-up operation carried out off the coast of the state after it identified Chitra as a