A High Court bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice N M Jamdar had underlined “a serious lacuna in the decision-making process” and “lack of proper scientific study”. The Brihanmumbai
Why did the count of malnutrition deaths in Thane district mount to 494 since April when the State government had identified -as early as May 15-19 remote tribal villages in Thane and 486 in
Next time you visit Mantralaya or any Maharashtra government office or even the official residence of a bureaucrat, make sure that you do not spit in a corner or smoke a cigarette. A nuisance
Amid the speeding traffic and plumes of exhaust on the Mumbai Urban highway, a rare sighting created a twitter in the reed swamps across the harbour at Urban. Spotted exactly 50 years after it last
With deputy Prime Minister L K Advani flagging off the trail run of the metro rail in Delhi, the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) too has evinced interest in a similar
The civic Standing Committee's decision on August 13 to reject a Rs 67-crore proposal which would have enabled the BMC to purchase additional vehicles for upgrading their solid waste disposal work
The Bombay High Court upheld the Maharashtra State Government's decision to ban the sale of pan masala and gutkha saying it was in the interest of public health. The division bench of Justice R M
To tackle the problem of poor health services in tribal areas, often leading to malnutrition deaths, the Democratic Front (DF) government plans to hand over some vital schemes to NGOs. The
Armed MCC Naxaliters attacked a group of villagers collecting firewood from the Chumba forests in Hazaribad (Jharkhand). Six villagers were killed in the incident and 10 others seriously injured. Two
Even as Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh sought to emulate a policy to protect 'genuine' adivasis living on forest fighting a different battle of its own - one of saving the fast
There is some good news for tree lovers who have been striving to protect two old trees on Veer Savarkar Road in Dadar (Maharashtra). Reportedly, two year ago the two century old rain trees on the
