Sorry, no water: ashram schools send tribal kids home till it rains
Mumbai Twenty residential schools in Thane district have sent their students home, the authorities saying they don
Mumbai Twenty residential schools in Thane district have sent their students home, the authorities saying they don
Pune The Shramik Shetkari Vigyan Mandal, a farmers
Pune The ongoing controversy over the purchase of Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) buses will finally see an end as the Urban Development Department of the state government has ruled out the possibility of bus purchases by a private player.
Nagpur: A Rs 627-crore project in Vidarbha's six suicide-prone, cotton-producing districts will help farmers in capacity building, increasing the farm produce and marketing. Animal husbandry, dairy farming and pisciculture, too, will be promoted
The city zoo, which has been receiving flak since the death of a five-year-old hippopotamus in April, is all set to adorn a new look by the year 2012. After recieving green signal from the Mumbai Heritage Committee for the Rs 433 crore modernisation plan last week, Byculla Zoo Authorities, is now awaiting approval from the Standing Committee of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC).
MUMBAI: Ignoring their own economic survey which said that outsiders were a burden on the infrastructure, the Congress-led Democratic Front government is all set to extend the cut-off date for slum rehabilitation from January 1, 1995 to January 1, 2000. This will be the third extension of the deadline, first set for 1985, and will make all pre-2000 squatters eligible for free housing.
Pune In order to create awareness on environment issues, the district social forestry department on Wednesday started distributing 20 lakh seedlings to be planted all over the state.
MUMBAI: Even as the fate of Rs 4,500-crore plan for scientific closure of Deonar dumping ground hangs in balance, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has proposed to develop six landfill sites beyond the city limits. A proposal to this effect has been sent to eight municipal corporations for further deliberation.
MUMBAI: With a rare hope of restoring the marine ecosystem in the `poisonous' Mithi, the city's metropolitan administration now wants the river-turned-nullah's unbearable stink in the BKC area to go. But this exercise, likely to be implemented after the monsoon, is reportedly aimed at increasing the value of BKC land abutting the river in the real estate market--purely for financial gains.
MUMBAI: Here's why the BMC's claims on rainwater harvesting don't hold water. Although its notification making this compulsory for all new projects came into force in October 2002, the civic body itself will practice what it preaches only next year.
HC Order In RIL Vs RNRL Case Puts Question Mark On Allocation Policy THE government, which will be earning close to $9 billion from RIL as part of its profit share, is likely to intervene in the RIL vs RNRL case yet again, as Monday
Mumbai: Climate change is a global issue affecting every living being and is a direct result of over exploitation of natural resources. While environmentalists and governments are busy pretending to be worried about the drastic change in climate pattern, they conveniently forget basics such as to conserve soil moisture and green cover, opined Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient Dr Rajendra Singh.
Mumbai: Mumbai may have its own skywalk, which no other Indian city can boast of, but it is by no means a pedestrian-friendly city. A study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Delhi's "walkability" points out that even though 40% of the city's population takes "pedestrian trips", the facilities are either crumbling or completely absent.
Mumbai There are chances of rains in Mumbai by the weekend, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday. If the southwest monsoon arrives by the weekend, it would be 10 days after its normal arrival.
Mumbai Mumbai's developers have set out to create a vision of what the metropolis should look like four decades from now. Its eyes on 2052, the Mumbai Transformation Support Unit (MTSU) has invited consultants to prepare a
Mumbai: The protest against the mining project at Kalne village, Dodamarg taluka, near Savantwadi took a serious turn on Friday when police inspector of Dodamarg police station Nandkumar Deshmukh allegedly assaulted Rama Desai, a senior citizen. He also reportedly abused women and manhandled one Yogita Bhikaji Desai, 25, a resident of Kalne village.
Mumbai: Bio-medical waste (BMW) weighing 4,575 metric tonnes was disposed of in an open dumping ground at Deonar along with municipal solid waste instead of landfills between 2003 and 2008, thus posing health hazards for residents in and around the area.
Pune. Mumbai: Swine flu in India is not yet pandemic, but it is certainly creating panic in parts of the country. Fear is mounting as the number of infected persons continues to grow -- though only 20 cases of the disease have been confirmed nationwide, so far -- and worried people are doing the rounds of hospitals. * H1N1 spreads: Case count 20 * H1N1 has been around for years
GANESH NAIK, ENVIRONMENT MINISTER FOR MAHARASHTRA EXPLAINS THE NEED FOR STRONG LEADERSHIP TO SAFEGUARD THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Ever wondered what happens to all the waste you generate and where it goes after it is mindlessly dumped? Reports indicate that a good 99 per cent of people have never bothered or even know what happens thereafter. The responsibility of collection of waste obviously has to rest with the municipal board of the city.