Mumbai A passenger was arrested on Wednesday by the Customs at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Sahar. According to the Customs officials, Thomas Ignatius Fernandes was in possession of three Lemurs, an engdangered species of monkeys, found in the regions around Central South Africa. Fernandes arrived in a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok. However, two monkeys died in transit.
Meena Menon Her name is also Kalavati. It is very unlikely though she will have any famous visitor in her humble hut at Mansudhavadi village of Dharni taluk in Amravati district. In March this year, when Kalavati Javarkar gave birth to her second child, a daughter, her one-year-old son Shubham was in grade three of malnutrition, rather severe. He weighed 6.6 kg instead of the ideal 10 kg.
Protesting Mumbai cabbies call for strike from August 1. Rahul Wadke The Maharashtra Government is in no mood to accede to the demand of the taxi and auto-rickshaw unions to waive the 14 per cent value-added tax (VAT) on compressed natural gas (CNG).
MUMBAI: Even as the civic standing committee cleared the proposal for the Deonar dumping ground's closure, a section of citizens, in a letter to Justice D Y Chandrachud-who is hearing a PIL on the dump-urged the high court to ensure more decentralised methods of waste disposal.
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is gearing up to tackle the cholera menace after 25-year-old Motiben Chavhan tested positive for the mild form of the disease. Motiben, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar in Cuffe Parade, is recuperating at the civic-run Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli.
MUMBAI: If the MMRDA has its way, American landfill experts will soon visit Mumbai's dumping sites, prod the garbage, take samples of the slush, analyse it and then suggest ways to create new sanitary landfills in the region.
Mumbai Forty-year-old Rajesh, a chain smoker, feared losing the use of his legs after he found that the artery carrying blood to his leg was clogged.
Mumbai The Rs 3,495-crore proposal to partially close down the 82-year-old Deonar dumping ground and develop, on the remaining part, a landfill site on scientific lines is expected to be passed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Standing Committee on Monday.
<p>Letter from Nagar Rachna Aani Mulya Nirdharan Vibhag on Lavasa dated 20/07/2009.</p>
Pune Even after preparing more than 20 reports on city
Mumbai After taking a decision to construct two dams to quench the thirst of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region(MMR), the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is now planning to construct three more dams in Thane and Raigad. According to Metropolitan Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad, the infrastructure agency is planning to construct three dams on Kalu, Susri and Pinjar rivers.
A joint initiative by the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) and Smt Chandibai Himmatmal Mansukhani (CHM) College is being pitched for the National Urban Water Awards. As part of the initiative the civic body and CHM College took citizens
Mumbai A month after two horses
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set to revise the danger level of Mithi River from 2.7 metres to 3 metres. Stating that the Mithi improvement project has facilitated faster flow of the river, civic officials said, there is no threat to the hutments and structures adjoining Mithi even if the water rises till the existing danger level.
Mumbai The first Metro project of Navi Mumbai appears to have run into a fresh roadblock, long before work has begun. The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) is reconsidering whether to opt for a Metro rail or to resume the suburban rail project it had opted against.
Mumbai The water stored in Mumbai
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