Disaster managers ready to rush to most vulnerable zones
Mumbai This monsoon, residents of highly flood prone areas in the city will get some quick help from disaster management experts, in case of an emergency.
Mumbai This monsoon, residents of highly flood prone areas in the city will get some quick help from disaster management experts, in case of an emergency.
Mumbai: Stung by the fact that 60% of malarial deaths in the city last year were due to late diagnosis, as patients medicated themselves for fever instead of visiting a doctor, the civic body is taking no chances this time. And who better to rope in to ensure victims reach hospitals in time than the chemists.
Mumbai: The air-conditioned King Long bus fleet used by the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) was meant to be a commuter
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has once again pulled up the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) for not following norms and causing environmental degradation. The MBCP had found that the renovation of Wankhede Stadium was polluting the air and groundwater.
Pune Board president says the trees cut for a project were on defence land and procedures have been followed For 75-year-old Major General (Retd) A K Dewan, it came as a shock when over 80 full grown peepul, neem and banyan trees were chopped and neatly sawed by the Ahmednagar Cantonment Board authorities for a proposed accommodation project for married Army officers.
Mumbai After being relegated to cold storage for some time, the Dharavi Redevelopment Project will explore yet another model. In a first, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has proposed that it would like to develop one of the five sectors in the 2-sq-km slum sprawl on its own instead of handing it to a developer.
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Mumbai An H1N1 patient was moved out of the ICU of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital in Sion on Monday and kept in a room easily accessible to any visitor. She spent all day in the room in ward 20, where her husband visited her without protection, before the BMC finally had her shifted back to ICU.
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Nashik: MLAs, entrepreneurs, spiritual leaders and individuals here have joined hands to launch a movement against cutting of trees. A large number of trees on the Mumbai-Agra highway were cut or felled by the contractors over the last couple of years and many more or likely to be cut in near future for works like road widening, the activists said.
Mumbai: Of all the perishable products in the Mumbai market, milk is perhaps one of the most adulterated. The proof: In the past year, the Brihanmumbai division of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has carried out raids on 25 establishments in the city, which were involved in selling adulterated milk.
NAGPUR: An unusually high incidence of monkey deaths over the last three days near a dried up reservoir in the Sindewahi forests, 150km from here in Chandrapur, has driven wildlife officials to panic.
Pune Environmental activists chalked out an action plan to help reduce risks at
Pune One of the major environmental problems faced in urban India is cutting down of trees and for the construction activities in the cities, trees are being felled in an an alarming rate,said Madhav Gadgil, eminent ecologist and member of National Advisory Council, Prime Minister
Mumbai The severe water supply shortage over the past one year has served as a wake-up call: the number of buildings with rainwater harvesting facilities has shot up as never before. Of the 1,651 buildings that have set up such a facility since October 2002, when the BMC made it compulsory for new buildings, 751 did so last year.
Mumbai: Soon, the Mithi river will no longer have to take the city
Mumbai: On the eve of World Environment Day, environment minister Suresh Shetty spoke to DNA on the need for effective implementation of the existing rules and norms. Excerpts from the interview: Industrial units continue to flout pollution norms...
Mumbai may be the commercial capital, but the impressive growth fails to hide the grim realities of the toll on the environment. Nowhere is this more evident than the suburban region of Chembur, where pollution levels have soared.
Mumbai Hundreds of residents took to the streets on Friday to clean up the 300-acre periphery of the Powai lake, to rid it of polythene bags and garbage. Citizens also gathered in large numbers at the Panch Kutir Powai lake Ganesh Ghat to ask civic officials why the desilting was not completed before the monsoon.
RASHME SEHGAL Entire villages across Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh have villagers queuing up for hours to get a single pot of water. Ganga Bai of Navsari village in Gujarat points out:`We work during the day and then stand in water queues through the night.'