Indian Express (Mumbai)

Mumbai A team of Union Civil Aviation Ministry officials is expected to visit the site of the proposed Greenfield Navi Mumbai International Airport on Thursday to consider changes in the plan to divert the Gadhi river and reduce the damage to eco-sensitive areas, officials said. In a meeting with the Expert Appraisal Committee last month in New Delhi, the state government had said that it would

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Pune Under criticism for the slow pace of development work under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the Pune Municipal Corporation has chalked out a four-month plan to launch an extensive land acquisition drive for road widening to set up the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS). “The civic administration has been able to only complete the acquisition process of the land t

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The United Nations is considering a proposal to implement the Mahatma Gandhi Tanta Mukti Gaon Mohim (Dispute-free Village Scheme) of the state government in other developing nations of the world, State Home Minister R R Patil said on Monday.

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Pune After a year’s exposure to H1N1 virus and 379 deaths, Pune’s population is still not immune to swine flu. The level of antibodies that has developed among the high-risk groups is not sufficient to control the infection and break the transmission of the virus, said Dr A C Mishra, Director of National Institute of Virology (NIV). A study conducted by NIV shows that the risk of infection (

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Pune The Pune district administration has set a target of planting one crore trees in the rural areas over a period of one year.

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With days left for the Ganesh festival, the BMC’s tree authority is facing a severe shortage of equipment and manpower to cut and prune trees that are likely to obstruct the Ganesh processions. “Following an extreme summer and very good rainfall later, the growth of trees has been very vigourous this year; our work has increased, said CB Rokade, deputy municipal commissioner (Gardens & Recrea

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The cloud-seeding experiment in rainshadow regions is likely to begin this week, pushed from its August-25 schedule as scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) wait for some clearances. “There are some last-minute permission from the civil aviation and home ministries and the airports authority. Aircraft had to be mobilised from South Africa.

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Almost five months after the state-of-the-art radar, S Band, arrived in the city for more accurate weather prediction, it seems that the technology will not be put to use this monsoon. The reason: India Meteorological Department is yet to finish the earthing and wiring which would make the radar operational. The Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) made radar arrived in the city this April.

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Layers of oil covered the coastlines of Elephanta Island and Butcher Island Monday, part of the spill from the collision of MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia III. Around 10 to 15 km of Elephanta’s coastline was covered in a thick layer, raising a stench all around and fears about the effect on plant and animal life.

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Mumbai MNS chief Raj Thackeray once again blamed migrants in slums for the spread of malaria, asked party workers to launch a cleanliness drive and blamed the Shiv Sena-BJP-run BMC of giving deflated figures of malaria.

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