Registration of healthcare facilities mandatory
These rules aim to make available a database of clinical establishments which are authorised to function and thereby improve public health quality by eliminating quacks The Union Ministry of public
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27 halts on Metro Line II
The 32-km elevated second phase of the metro rail project which will connect Charkop and Mankhurd via Bandra will have 27 stations. After the state government okayed the project, the Centre accorded its in-principal approval to the line in February 2007. Two years ago, the cost of the project was pegged at Rs5,616 crore. Now, it has been estimated that the project would cost almost Rs8,400 crore. The deadline for the project is 2012. The Ambani brothers, it has been learnt, will bid for the project.
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MMRDA forgets to clean its toilets
Ninad Siddhaye Monday, October 13, 2008 03:36 IST One of the many projects of Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) is of building thousands of toilet blocks across Mumbai Metropolitan Region. However, the condition of the toilets in its own backyard seems to be very poor.
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Solar lights to illuminate tribal areas
There is finally light at the end of the road for tribal hamlets in Mumbai. The municipal corporation has started making use of solar-run streetlights to illuminate arterial roads and lanes of these hamlets.
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Two-day Indo-French nuclear business meet in Mumbai from Oct 14
Mumbai: The second two-day Indo-French Nuclear Business Meet will begin in the city on October 14. Nearly 500 Indian and French nuclear industry players and decision-makerswill get the opportunity to exchange ideas on nuclear cooperation with respect to various aspects including technical, business and economics.
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Ashok Chavan's Mega City will re-energise state
Mumbai: Finally, chief minister Ashok Chavan has something to showcase. The state government has given approval to start work on the world
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State ministers cross swords with Jairam Ramesh
<br /> <div> </div> <div>State cabinet ministers from both the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are at loggerheads with Union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh for withholding clearance to several projects in the Konkan region, Vidarbha and Navi Mumbai.</div> <div> </div> <div>They are going to take up their complaint against Ramesh with the prime minister, argu
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Glass buildings increase Mumbais temperature
The new-age Mumbai is getting hotter, literally.
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Study of all power plants essential
Only the combined study of all the proposed power projects on the Konkan coastal belt, will give the real picture of the possible impact on the environmental of these plants, says the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). The 200-km-long Konkan coastline is expected to have around 15 thermal power plants, with a capacity of around 23,000MW.
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Drive against Jaitapur nuclear plant picks steam
Following the nuclear disaster at Japan