Finally, Powai deer breathe free
Mumbai: About 85 deer languishing in an illegal enclosure at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
Mumbai: About 85 deer languishing in an illegal enclosure at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
MUMBAI: Although the city has been allotted an additional water supply of 100 million litres a day (mld) since January 6, the BMC has not been able to carry it to Mumbaikars' taps.
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has asked contractors undertaking its civic projects to look for a place to dump the debris generated at the construction sites. BMC would no longer allow the city
Mumbai: An expert committee has been set up to advise the Government on planning, management and implementation of the Dharavi makeover project. The 11-member committee comprising architects, city planners, activists and former bureaucrats has been approved by Chief Minister Ashok Chavan.
Mumbai: His average day begins at 3 am, roaming the suburbs on a bicycle and distributing milk packets from door to door. Later in the day, after the family business is being taken care of, he picks his books, a notepad, a pen and steps out to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), Borivali, in an endeavour to track its floral bio-diversity and protect it from destruction.
Mumbai: Upset with a decision of cancelling a meeting of the steering committee appointed to discuss modalities of Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), Sudhir Badami, city-based transport expert, has alleged that Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) is not taking it seriously. He also pointed out that MMRDA has not included the project on the important projects list.
Holi may not be the same this year if Friday's six-month ban on toys imported from China is implemented strictly. After all, most pichkaris are made in that country. While Holi is still more than a month away, importers, wholesalers and retailers, worried about the impact that the ban will have on their livelihood, have started hoarding stocks and inflating prices by about 30 per cent.
Mumbai: Mumbai, the electronic waste capital of the country, is likely to get an e-waste processing unit run on a public-private partnership model. The unit will be first of its kind in the country and the second in South East Asia, to where India now supplies its e-waste for recovery of precious metals.
YAVATMAL: From a vantage point on a hill where the gram panchayat office of Datodi village is located, you can get a bird
MUMBAI: With Gujarat taking the lead in attracting industrial investments in recent times, chief minister Ashok Chavan on Wednesday said Maharashtra will soon come out with new policies on Information Technology (IT) and Bio-technology (BT) to promote these sectors in a big way. Chavan promised to be pro-active in drafting a comprehensive, industry-friendly policy.
NAGPUR: The Bombay high court has come down heavily on the state government for failing to check malnutrition and infant deaths among tribals of Melghat in Amravati.
Mumbai: The Indian Railways is all set to join the branded bottled water bandwagon. The railways has decided to set up a drinking water plant at the base of Malang Hills at Ambernath, the foothills of the Sahyadari Mountain range.
Mumbai: Compared to the island city, more people stay in the suburbs and pay higher taxes to the municipal corporation. Yet, suburban residents get a smaller share of the water supplied by the civic body.
Mumbai: Now, you can get rid of old electronic gadgets and gizmos in a safe, scientific way - and get paid for it. Harshit Patel, a city-based entrepreneur, from Polytela e-Commerce Private Limited, has launched a first nation-wide service to collect e-waste free of cost.
Mumbai: After assuring the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) of supplying additional water, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has refused to provide 150 mld water to the civic body. The BMC will now seek the additional water from Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) in order to provide relief to the parched city.
Mumbai: Municipal Corporation to sell treated water; three bids under scrutiny Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has joined the list of civic bodies planning to sell treated sewage water to private parties, in a bid to make the most out of its resources.
Mumbai: Authorities at Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) are facing fresh encroachment attempts, this time from its original inhabitants
Water conservationist and Magsaysay Award Winner, Rajendra Singh, who was in Mumbai last week to talk about the Mithi, lists some of the steps that can be taken to revive the river The sources of the Mithi River
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT MMRDA And BMC Officials Race Against Time To Keep The Court Deadline For The Mithi
Chinmayi Shalya I TNN Mumbai: A bird strike has always been one the worst nightmares for pilots, and the plane crash in New York shows how perilous avian activity around airfields can be. The Airbus 320, which landed in the Hudson, apparently crashed after a flock of geese were sucked into the two engines of the aircraft.