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.
MUMBAI: The World Bank has approved $430 million to finance the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) 2A to improve the suburban railway system in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
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.
mumbai Floating for days in the Powai lake, a dead crocodile was finally removed on Wednesday evening and buried near the bank, without a postmortem as the carcass was too far decomposed.
mumbai the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) told the court on Thursday that the expert committee appointed to suggest ways to make Mithi river encroachment-free, has gone
<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 />
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.
mumbai After a series of meetings, the World Bank has approved a loan of $430 million for Phase II of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP).
The objective of this study was to evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in water supply and sanitation in rural India.
Farmer Subhash Sharma watched the decline of his soil and agricultural yields before he let nature be his teacher and understood the agro-economics of agriculture. He abandoned insecticides and chemical fertilisers and relied instead on the cow, trees, birds and vegetation.
<p>One of the major planks of rapid poverty reduction in the Eleventh Five Year Plan is the successful implementation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in majority of the states of India.
<p>The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) came into existence after the enactment of the Parliament Act 'National Rural Employment Guarantee Act' (2005) in September 2005. The primary objective of the scheme is to provide 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work.
The Agro-Industrial Policy aims at value addition from agricultural produce by induction of modern technology into food processing, encouraging research and development, minimization of wastage across the food processing chain by development of infrastructure for storage, transportation and processing of agro-food produce to fill in the gaps of supply chain from farm to consumer, and promotion of
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.
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.
Hyderabad, June 29: The Centre has promised to convene a meeting of the chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra soon to sort out differences between the two states on the Babli and 13 other projects constructed across the Godavari by the Maharashtra government.
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), has submitted an affidavit to the Bombay high court stating that it does not support the setting up of private helipads in Mumbai. The Maharashtra government had plans to give green signal to kick-start the construction of the 12 private helipads.
Pune Nearly 10 years after the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) included the locally grown plant species Shindel Makudi, scientifically known as Frerea Indica, in the list of 12 most endangered plants on earth, the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has come out with a study in which it claims that the plant is no longer on the verge of extinction and has grown in sizeble number
