Wheat import mixed blessing, hunt on for invasive weeds
Joseph John Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful
Joseph John Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful
Ashwin Aghor / DNA Mumbai: India's tigers are losing ground by the day, forcing them to explore enemy environs. The enemy is us, who poach tigers and encroach on their land, reducing the big cats to just about 1,400 across the country.
Supporting the state government's stand, the Western India Automobile Association (WIAA), on Tuesday, told the Bombay high court that the traffic restrain system (TRS) was not feasible in Mumbai. The court has closed the PIL for orders. click here
Power-starved Maharashtra has suffered another jolt with the Delhi high court ordering JSW Energy Limited not to make its 1,200MW thermal power station at Jaigad in the alphonso mango beltof the Konkan operational until it is cleared by an expert appraisal committee (EAC).
Pune On Tuesday, a famliar face of the industry in Pune will be attending the United Nations Leadership Forum on Climate Change, at the the United Nations headquarters in New York. Pramod Chaudhari, chairman, Praj Industries Limited, global leaders in biofuels solutions, will participate in the Forum.
Mumbai With just 16 months left to meet the deadline, the delay in obtaining Right of Way (ROW) is likely to put the Mumbai Monorail project off the track The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) undertaking the project has to obtain the ROW at Bhoiwada (Parel), Antop Hill, Ambedkar Nagar and Mint Colony areas.
MUMBAI: The overblown myth about the `city of gold' where poor migrants make their fortune has been dealt a blow by a recent report from the Union ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation.
Rahi Gaikwad VIDARBHA: Around one crore voters in the Vidarbha region are set to exercise their franchise on October 13 for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Six months will have elapsed since they last voted for this year
Mumbai: The overblown myth about the
There's an old joke that goes: "Inflation is when you pay Rs 50 for the Rs 20 haircut you used to get for Rs 5 when you actually had hair." With the sharp spike in prices of essential foodstuff, it's no laughing matter.
MUMBAI: Four years after the BMC conducted a survey to assess the number of people who live below the below poverty line (BPL), the list is still not out. As a consequence, over 12 lakh families in the city who claimed to be in the category, have been left without the possibility of availing of the facilities provided by the government.
MUMBAI: This time, the monsoon came late and was not even adequate, but the number of trees it managed to uproot touched almost 1,500, more than double the figure last year. The total count of trees that fell this year is almost (more than three months are still left of 2009) equal to the city toll in the last two years.
MUMBAI: Mumbai's infrastructure agencies have come under fire for focusing only on the capital intensive sea-link, iconic tower and metro rail projects and "ignoring the medium and short-term transportation infrastructure solutions''.
MUMBAI: A high-powered committee and a police officer of the rank of an additional commissioner will vet 87 complaints in slum rehab cases in the city, the Bombay high court ruled on Thursday.
MUMBAI: In five years between 2002 and 2007, 30 BMC schools vanished from the city, stated a recently released United Nations Development Programme report on Mumbai.
Rahi Gaikwad Pandharkawada (Yavatmal district): Women in Jalka village in Yavatmal district have been going to Kalavati Bandurkar, ever since Rahul Gandhi
Mumbai The research and training institute for mass transit systems
Mumbai Come Tuesday, several residents from Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, as well as Kandivli, will join a world community to promote the World Car Free Day 2009, for the first time in the city. Along with several office-goers across UK, USA, South America and New Zealand, the participants will abandon their private automobiles
Perennial water scarcity has been one of the worst kept secrets of many of Mumbai's toniest areas. Parts of South Mumbai, including Cuffe Parade and Nariman Point, depend on tankers for their daily quota. Likewise, several of the city's expensive localities in the western suburbs make do with just a couple of hours of municipal water supply a day.
Mumbai: Statistics provided by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) health department shows a considerable rise in deaths related to water-borne ailments and gastroenteritis. As many as 49 waterborne fever-related deaths and eight gastroenteritis deaths were reported this monsoon. click here