Mumbai Worried over the rising number of hutments and illegal constructions, the Shiv Sena-ruled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to come up with a fact-based white paper on the slums, which were built between 1995 and 2004. The civic administration has said that despite taking regular action, a large number of the city
NEW DELHI: The Centre will shortly release Rs.1,000 crore to the States from the Compensatory Afforestation Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA) fund for sustainable forestry management, as directed by the Supreme Court.
New Delhi: After getting nod from the Supreme Court on utilisation of more than Rs 11,000 crore lying in under the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (Campa) fund, the environment and forest ministry forest on Wednesday said the process of allocating money from the fund to respective states will start in the next two weeks for taking up afforestation and conservation
MUMBAI: Bring water under the Essential Commodities Act (ECA). This was the demand echoed by some members of the BMC standing committee on Wednesday. With no respite from water cuts and tankers holding the city to ransom, the members wanted that the proposal, raised several times during previous water crises, be considered seriously this time.
MUMBAI: Besides encroachments on water pipelines, the BMC is grappling with slums that have cropped up at its service reservoirs, most of which are located on hills and supply water to fag ends of the city.
MUMBAI: With levels in the lakes that supply water to the city at their lowest, the BMC on Wednesday cleared two proposals to carry out cloud seeding in the catchment areas. The decision was based on rainfall data for this monsoon so far- rain this year was 70% less than last year.
The large population of blackbucks in Maharashtra
A community radio service in the Baramati district is building up the confidence and knowledge levels of rural women and girls in the area.
Residents of Mumbai hit the panic mode today as the Mithi river, flowing through its suburbs, breached its danger mark, thus reviving memories of the July 2005 floods that claimed over 150 lives.
MUMBAI: The BMC is proposing to undertake a comprehensive cloud-seeding project at the catchments supplying water to the city. The project, which would be carried out over a period of 60 days and at a cost of Rs 12 crore, would be in addition to a seeding experiment the civic body may carry out this week.
Mumbai: Life in Mumbai was thrown out of gear on Tuesday during the wettest day the city experienced so far this monsoon. The incessant showers, which caused road, rail and flight disruptions, began on Monday night. On Tuesday, the Met department reported 32.8 mm of rain in Colaba and 145.5 mm in Santa Cruz.
Siddhesh Inamdar MUMBAI: The Mithi river, whose flooding had brought Mumbai to a standstill during the deluge in 2005, threatened to go out of control on Tuesday, following heavy rains since the previous evening. In Kurla, a low-lying area, 140 hutment dwellers from Kranti Nagar were evacuated by fire service officials as the river crossed the danger level of 2.8 metres.
Mumbai: Water supply to Mumbai will be reduced by at least 200 million litres daily (MLD) in the coming 48 hours.
VENKATESH KESARI With monsoon playing truant, drought could turn out to be a major issue in the coming Maharashtra Assembly elections
Pune The National Institute of Virology (NIV) has observed three types of dengue virus circulating in Pune and while this does not mean an increase in the severity of the disease, it most certainly means "more dengue related activity in the region and hence more cases."
Pune Dengue and malaria continue their surge in Pimpri-Chinchwad without any tangible efforts from the civic body to curb the menace. While malaria has crossed the 300 mark, dengue cases have reached 187 since January.
Pune The water-starved city heaved a sigh of relief as the Rain Gods smiled on Tuesday morning. By evening, the citizens were also smiling. There was water in the rivers, dams and roads. The catchments of all the dams supplying drinking water to Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad received heavy rain through the day.
Mumbai For over 15 hours ending Tuesday evening, Mumbai
An apex order will only hit the large SEZs The Supreme Court recently refused to stay the land acquisition proceedings in Raigarh, for the Mumbai Special Economic Zone (sez) promoted by Reliance Industries. According to section 11A of the Land Acquisition Act, if the process of land acquisition is not completed within two years from its commencement (June 8 in this case), the acquisition
Maharashtra district plans to relocate 4,000 antelopes THE large population of blackbucks in Maharashtra
