PM gets report on chlorine gas leak from shipping minister
Mumbai: Union shipping minister GK Vasan has handed over a detailed report on the chlorine gas leakage to prime minister Manmohan Singh during the cabinet meeting on Thursday.
Mumbai: Union shipping minister GK Vasan has handed over a detailed report on the chlorine gas leakage to prime minister Manmohan Singh during the cabinet meeting on Thursday.
MUMBAI: A Rs 1.2-crore experiment has not been able to rid the Mithi of its stink. So the MMRDA is back to its favourite olfactory laboratory in the city, the bed of the Mithi. The MMRDA will commission on July 23 a new experiment to stop the stench at the Vakola nullah.
Mumbai: With swine flu cases soaring again, Pune
Mumbai: Wednesday
Mumbai: The state government may make it mandatory to install noise barriers at construction sites, minister of state for urban development Bhaskar Jadhav informed the legislative council on Wednesday.
Pune The Swargate police have arrested a group of five men for allegedly stealing a sandalwood tree from the premises of the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Salisbury Park. The arrests were made immediately after the watchman on duty informed the police control room at 4.30 in the morning on Wednesday about the theft.
As many as 103 people fell sick early today after inhaling chlorine gas leaking from a cylinder stored in the Mumbai Port Trust (MPT) premises at Sewri. Some of the affected people were discharged after treatment. Currently, 78 people are recuperating, of which eight are in the Critical Care Unit due to respiratory problems and 14 in the Medical Intensive Unit due to throat problems.
Chlorine leaking from Mumbai Port Trust
<p>Mumbai In a move that will hearten the city’s environmentalists, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will conduct an intensive biodiversity mapping of the Byculla Zoo to identify the varieties of trees and other flora on the premises, using GPS.<br />
Mumbai: An 11-month-old baby boy from Bandra (East) succumbed to swine flu on Sunday taking the death toll to 11 since the onset of monsoon in June. On Tuesday, 13 more, including five children and a pregnant woman, tested positive.
Mumbai: Out of the 60,000 industries in the state, barely 2.5% have filed their annual environmental statement with the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). The statement is equivalent to an audit report and must be filed every year by industrial units to furnish details of their emissions and effluent discharge.
Geeta Nair
Pune Even as the Pune Municipal Corporation authorities maintain that there is enough water supply to all areas, it's the newly developing areas of the city such as Dhanori that are facing an acute water crunch. With alternate day water supply or no supply at all for two to three days, residents in the society and the surrounding areas have to depend on borewells and tankers.
Pune The water scarcity that hit the city hard last year had given a major fillip to the private water tankers business in the city with the owners making the most of the opportunity and exploiting the dire situation faced by citizens
Pune A group of college students came together on Sunday to do their bit for nature. They collected nearly 50 schoolstudents and got them to plant saplings on a few hills where trees are being cut for construction activities.
Pune This year
MUMBAI: Sting may have famously penned the song 'Every breath you take, every move you make...I'll be watching you' in the 1980s, but it's Mumbai's town planners who are humming the tune now.
In the run-up to the Commonwealth Games, it took a record three years for Delhi to construct Terminal 3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), which holds the distinction of being one of the world
MUMBAI: The Centre is upset that Maharashtra, one of the states to be worst affected by swine flu last year, has managed to consume just about 5% of vaccine doses provided to it. The Union government is even less amused as it has already placed orders with Indian pharmaceutical companies manufacturing H1N1 vaccines, for more doses, for selective vaccination.
Minister of state for civil aviation Praful Patel has done well to raise the alarm over the delay in Mumbai