MUMBAI: The city's draft development plan (DP) will not be published in October as planned.

MUMBAI: The government is considering creating a new township spread over 500 acres (200 hectares) that would be owned by project affected persons (PAPs) of Navi Mumbai International Airport.

MUMBAI: While BEST's buses will continue to guzzle fuel, the transport undertaking plans to economize on the water used to wash its fleet of 4,000.

Increasing concretization and loss of greenery have led to a dwindling of the city's butterfly population. But now, a group of schoolchildren, as part of a community initiative, is working to bring the colourful insects back to town.

The plan is to place nectar-rich plants like lantanas, which attract butterflies, in public parks and gardens. This is aimed at providing a conducive environment for different species of butterflies to thrive, said Dr Puja Sukhija, executive director of the NGO Organisation of Aware Saviours in Society (OASIS), which is involving schoolchildren in the 'Bring Back Butterflies' project.

Mumbai: Alleged malpractice in the shortlisting of a contract to be awarded for the city tree census has come to the fore with the Tree Authority members claiming that garden department officials h

The Bombay high court blasted the BMC on Thursday while hearing petitions against illegal waste dumping and wetland reclamation in Kanjurmarg.

Mumbai: Most Mumbaikars are unwilling to segregate waste before disposal, according to a survey by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

Despite the belief that waste segregation at source is the best way to handle solid waste and limit health hazards, 80% of those surveyed were not willing to do it. The survey revealed that generating less waste and improving the recycling capacity are other ways which people felt can help manage waste. A meagre 8% were in favour of a user charge.

Survey Gauges City’s Attitude Towards Issues On Environment

Mumbai: Climate change is no longer an environmentalist’s concern. Erratic weather, change in temperature, depletion of air quality and wind patterns seem to be weighing on Mumbaikars’ minds too.

The Maharashtra government has woken up to the need for a command centre for coordinated response to disasters like terror strikes, floods and fires.

"We fail to understand as to why the respondents are taking it as an adversarial litigation," said a Bombay high court bench of Justices B P Dharmadhikari and A B Chaudhari in Nagpur while recently