Maharashtra tops country in RTI applications; Mumbai tops state
SWATEE KHER MUMBAI, MARCH 21
SWATEE KHER MUMBAI, MARCH 21
MUMBAI: The HC has ordered the BMC to look at the alternate plan offered by Nepean Sea Road residents to save trees from being cut during the road widening. The order came after the residents filed a PIL on Friday.
Mumbai: Eight environmental organisations came together on Thursday to protest against the imminent Byculla Zoo makeover plan which they fear will spell a death-knell to its thriving botanical garden.
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has directed the BMC and its Tree Authority to state how many trees have been cut and how many planted in 2008-09.
Mumbai: Lending rates for infrastructure projects should be between 7 and 8 per cent for projects to be viable and the necessary investments to flow into the economy so as to boost growth.
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has reduced the cut-off age for child labour in hazardous industries from 18 to 14. A government resolution issued by the state labour department on March 2 stated that anyone employing children below 14 in hazardous industries will be prosecuted and fined Rs20,000 for each child employed. The state's "regressive" step has shocked child labour activists.
The Maharashtra government has offered some respite for the troubled Dabhol Power Project by agreeing to provide a guarantee for a Rs 300 crore loan that owner Ratnagiri Gas and Power Project Ltd (RGPPL) is seeking from the Power Finance Corporation (PFC).
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and its Tree Authority to state how many trees were cut and how many were planted last year.
ANURADHA MASCARENHAS PUNE, MARCH 19 THE child sex ratio (below six years) has been on the decline in the country and villages and districts are now hitting a new low. Pune city, and district, has clearly made its choice and opted for the male child.
Mumbai: Forest dept says fire was doused in half-an-hour, no animal injured A fresh fire broke out at the tiger safari enclosure in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) on Wednesday evening, but was extinguished soon, said D Rathod, superintendent of lion/tiger safari. About half-an-acre within the enclosure was gutted in the fire, said the forest officials.
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MUMBAI: Prominent environmental groups in the city will meet on Thursday to protest against the redevelopment plan for Jijamata Udyan, which they say will destroy the zoo's heritage botanical garden. The masterplan for the redevelopment of the Byculla Zoo is currently awaiting the approval of the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC).
NAVI MUMBAI: A large patch of lush mangroves adjacent to the railway tracks near Vashi station has been chopped indiscriminately. No official complaint has been lodged yet, but the hacked mangroves make for a jarring sight amid the healthy ones, claim commuters.
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday allowed the BMC to go ahead with its plans to set up sewage treatment plants and lay pipelines on coastal areas in the city, which house mangroves. A division bench of Justices J N Patel and Vijaya Kapse-Tahilramani asked the municipal corporation to ensure "minimal intervention'' so that mangroves are cut only if absolutely necessary.
Mumbai: Suburban collector Vishwas Patil has supported a citizens' initiative to restore the Juhu lake in JVPD and Pawan Hans base (runway) near Nehru Nagar. Spread over 64 acres, the water body, Juhu citizens say will solve the problem of floods in the area.
Thane: Soaring mercury levels have apparently started taking a toll on the birds in the city, as the Society for Protection against Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) registered 10 cases of birds afflicted with sunstroke on Tuesday, almost a month before the onset of summer.
Nashik: Last October, Kailas Pingle, a grape farmer from Matori village near Nashik, started working on his five-acre plot, raising grapes. Pingle has been a grape farmer for many years, and took a loan and developed a new vineyard two years ago. DNA Fragile support: Kailas Pingle tries to erect the fallen vines
Mumbai: In a move that will provide impetus to development of innovation, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) will now facilitate dissemination, commercialization and public utilization of inventions by students and faculty members. It would be done in collaboration with Intellectual Ventures, a company that deals with funding inventions in institutes across the country.
Mumbai: Four years after the 2005 deluge, which killed over 400 people, Mumbai continues to be at the risk of floods with a high possibility of disaster in future. In fact, it is the third city after Rio De Jeneiro and Shanghai that is most prone to disaster.
Mumbai: Four years after commencing the project, the flyover outside the Mumbra railway station would be open to the public in a few weeks. According to Pravin Papalkar, executive engineer, Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), only asphalt work and installation of electric poles are to be done.