Proposed Thane flyover likely to clash with monorail route
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation
Pune The National Housing Census and National Population Register drive in Pune district will begin on May 1. This is the seventh population census to be undertaken by 2011.
Pune The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to act tough and disconnect water supply to those who fail to pay up. The civic body
Mumbai: To research on and influence the processes of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the School of Habitat Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) has now set up an Urban India Reform Facility, or UIRF.
Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (BEST) will get 468 CNG buses under the under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
Mumbai: The BMC
HOW CAN A LOWLY VEGETABLE BE AN ISSUE OF NATIONAL SECURITY? IS THERE A FOREIGN HAND IN YOUR BELLY? SHOMA CHAUDHURY LAYS BARE THE COMPLEX STORY OF Bt BRINJAL AND HOW IT AFFECTS YOU THE lowly brinjal
Sandeep Ashar / DNA Mumbai: Amidst heavy police bandobast, the demolition squad of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) pulled down a two-storey illegal structure at Versova on Thursday. The RCC structure, constructed along the coastline, was in violation of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms, said assistant municipal commissioner Ramesh Pawar
Sandhya Nair, TNN, Mar 5, 2010, 02.29am IST MUMBAI: Erin Brockovich may not quite be here, but a Thane court order has got greens grinning from ear to ear. Four officials of the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation have been sentenced to two years
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to undertake a special initiative for environment protection and increase the green cover of the city with an oxygen park on Taljai Hills.
Pune DEVELOPMENT WORK: Standing panel revises allocation, civic spend in 11 months only 30% of amount earmarked this fiscal The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) standing committee on Thursday increased the budget
Mumbai Mumbai, facing its worst ever water crisis, will take lessons from Israel, which tackles its own huge deficit with the help of artificial rain, desalination and treatment of brackish and effluent water.
Mumbai Jaydutt Kshirsagar, PWD Minister in charge of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, plans to meet Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday and press for speedy environmental clearance to several delayed projects, particularly the Peddar Road flyover.
Mumbai Most Holi colours sold in the city contain heavy metals like lead, mercury and cadmium, which are hazardous even in traces. A reality check was done by this newspaper on five colours with the help of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) at its Navi Mumbai lab. * A gulal sample from a store near Bandra station contained 36 mg/kg lead, 0.09 mg/kg mercury and 4.8 mg/kg cadmium.
The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) despite having 80 acres of garbage depot at Moshi has been permitted to have another 57 acres of land for waste processing and management by the state government. The PCMC will be implementing new waste disposal project on this 57 acres of land.
Pune The Forest Department
Mumbai The administration in Mumbai lacks the will to execute the proposed Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) that has been stuck in the planning stage for the last four-and-a-half years, said Dario Hidalgo, the man instrumental in the implementation of much acclaimed BRTS in Bogota, Colombia.
Mumbai: The already delayed Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project may be even further delayed as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is up against a rather peculiar problem. The civic administration does not know just how to dispose of the sludge resulting from the treatment of sewage water for non-potable purposes.
Mumbai: Villagers of Wagad are thrilled that their water association has won them the state award for managing the Meru Ling Kalva water body. Their effort of 10 years for effective water management has been acknowledged as a successful role model by the Maharashtra government.
Mumbai: Where once people welcomed sparrows and other birds on to their window sills, these days modern life has all but killed them off. Sparrows that used to make nests in people