Mumbai: The city's traffic police, which is conducting a 10-day long 'No Honking Drive', on Thursday fined 1,804 motorists for unnecessarily honking while driving on the city streets on the first day.
Mumbai: Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's message of Kar ke Dekho, a group of 10 women in Nashik have started a movement to encourage the use of cloth bags and reject plastic ones.
Mumbai: Leaving no stone unturned to reduce noise pollution in the city, the Mumbai Traffic police flagged off a 10-day campaign on Wednesday to reduce unnecessary honking by motorists. It has also roped in the Idea Academy of Actors to perform street plays to create awareness on the ill-effects of honking and noise pollution.
Mumbai: Water shortage is a prime concern for Mumbaikars. The municipal corporation had promised citizens 24x7 water supply by the beginning of 2012.
MUMBAI: With the July 26, 2005, floods still fresh in public memory, the civic body continues in its quest for a flood-free Mumbai. The Chitale Committee, set up immediately after the calamity, recommended that the existing network of Storm Water Drains (SWD) be augmented to cater to a rainfall intensity of 50mm/hour from the current 25mm as per the recommendation of Brimstowad report.
Mumbai: The drive to capture wild elephants from the forest in Sawantvadi has once again hit a road block following opposition from people from Dodamarg.
Pune, Feb. 3 Last year, it was unseasonal rains, this year it is late flowering. Consumers will have to wait for a longer time to enjoy the king of fruits, Alphonso mango, this year.
Cooper Hospital set for green makeover MUMBAI: Dr R N Cooper Hospital in Vile Parle will be the city's first-ever green hospital. The BMC was forced to go back to the drawing table after the ministry of environment and forests insisted that it consider alternate sources of energy and other environmentally friendly technologies to run the hospital.
Mumbai: As many as 9,40,011 children were administered polio drops in the Pulse Polio Immunization Programme by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Sunday. The civic body targeted a total of 13,13,370 children in the city on the National Immunization Day (NID).
Mumbai: International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC), an organisation headquartered in Japan is heralding a new approach to lake conversation
Mumbai: Dotted with estuaries, marshlands and rivers and surrounded on three sides by the Arabian Sea, Mumbai, with its own coral reef, is truly a city of wetlands. But they are disappearing fast, losing out to development.
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has formed an association of NGOs and IT firms to establish an environment-friendly and sustainable system for managing e-waste in the city. According to MPCB estimates, Mumbai generates around 23,000 metric tonnes of e-waste a year, and if not managed properly, this could be a major cause for concern by 2015.
Dig the well before you are thirsty, goes an old Chinese proverb. And Maharashtra
In the hard-rock terrains of Peninsular India groundwater resource management cannot be generally achieved through policy and regulatory actions by government, given the extremely large numbers of individually small users and the limited institutional capacity which needs to be focused on that small proportion of critical aquifers at risk of irreversible degradation.
This article is an interim outcome of an action research project being done on Water Governance under which an analysis of the sub-basin is being done to understand the dynamics of water allocation and regulation in practice. It studies inter-sectoral water allocation, planning and management in the last decade in the small sub-basin (Waghadi) in Painganga basin of Godavari River in Maharashtra.
This paper describes the development of poverty lines in India, from the 19th century to the present, and assesses their limitations as an indication of poverty.
An excuse to privatize irrigation project STARTED in 1984, the yet to be completed Nira Deoghar irrigation project in Maharashtra has run into rough weather. A recent judgement by the three-member water regulatory authority has put on hold the privatization of the project in Bhor taluka, Pune district. Aimed at irrigating 45,000 hectares the project when conceived was to cost Rs 62
MUMBAI: Irked at the delay in completing the Rs 109-crore Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR), the World Bank (WB) on Thursday asked Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to release resettlement package for 404 project affected people (PAPs) to expedite the project.
Mumbai: The central Government on Thursday informed the Bombay High Court that they have banned the import of toys from China for six months as an interim measure till the toxicity of the toys is assessed.
