1997: Civil aviation ministry sets up a committee to examine the need for a second airport June 2000: Committee suggests three sites and upgradation of the Mumbai airport September 2000: Navi Mumbai site found most suitable. State government approves plan July 2007: Union cabinet gives in-principle approval to new airport September 2006: CIDCO seeks MoEF approval. Ministry forwards
Locals Worried Over Sound Levels Soaring During Rallies Mumbai: As the political temperature rises in the city, residents of Shivaji Park
Mumbai: After strong protests from various residents associations between Juhu and Bandra, MMRDA is thinking of introducing a clause in the bidding process that some distance or the entire route might be made underground. But if the option doesn't turn out to be feasible, there are chances that Metro II might meet the same fate as Peddar Road flyover.
Mumbai: BEST buses may soon have global positioning system (GPS). And this will help passengers know the exact time it would take to reach their destinations.
Mumbai Dead animals from the country
Mumbai Water, water everywhere but not a drop to spare, and therefore every drop should be used judiciously; this was the mantra of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
Pune You are playing with our lives, villagers tell PMC, district officials, MPCB
CONGRESS MP Eknath Gaik-wad, whose constituency includes Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, has assured that the redevelopment model of the sprawling slum will be replicated in other slums of the constituency. After delimitation, his Mumbai South-Central constituency includes slum-dominated parts of Mankhurd, Trombay, Sion and Kurla.
DRUG retailers in Mumbai are boycotting all the 198 medicines of Swiss company Novartis and its subsidiary Sandoz, protesting the drugmakers
MUMBAI: Officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have seized huge stocks of three leading brands of energy drinks, collectively worth around Rs 2.64 crore, from Mumbai and Pune. The move comes close on the heels of recent amendments to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. Most of these drinks are sold in pubs and bars.
MUMBAI: Over 17,700 trees have been planted in the past one year in the cityand its suburbs, the BMC's Tree Authority told the Bombay high court on Thursday. The revelation came during the hearing of a public interest litigation filed by NGO Aawaz.
MUMBAI: If the BMC's claims are to be believed, there's good news for Mumbaikars. Civic officials say people won't reel under water cuts this summer as the quantity of water stored this year is almost double of that stored last year.
Mumbai Procedure for seeking permission to cut trees for redevelopment is faulty, says PIL The Tree Authority has informed the Bombay High Court that they allowed felling of dead and dangerous trees after receiving complaints from citizens.
Mumbai The Oshiwara Railway Station project received a major setback recently with the World Bank withdrawing its funding as the project was delayed. Sources said it was because of the non-completion of two Road Over Bridges (ROB) and the non-closure of the Ram Mandir level crossing. Without the closure of the crossing, construction of the station building and platforms is not possible.
Hubbardia Bor, a monospecific, critically endangered and endemic genus on the verge of extinction has been reintroduced and successfully restored in its natural home, the Western Ghats.
Depression in agriculture and farmer suicides continue, thanks to the misguided actions of Indian policymakers. AS the outstanding Marxist economist Paul Baran had pointed out in The Political Economy of Growth, what is cooked in the kitchen is not decided in the kitchen. Similarly, what happens to agricultural producers is decided outside agriculture by public policy.
The present government and the ones before it have neglected the health sector, as the National Family Health Surveys show. WHAT is the state of the nation
Pune In an innovative venture where farmers will get to sell their produce directly to consumers without middlemen, Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat (ABGP), a consumer right
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