Mumbai: A representative from the union environment ministry and a divisional forest officer will now be part of a committee set up by the state government to issue licenses for sand mining for cle
MUMBAI: Close on the heels of the state move to declare Worli Koliwada a slum in order to allow towers (TOI, November 12), comes the revelation that Mumbai's draft coastal zone management plan (CZM
MUMBAI: The Curlew Sandpiper, Eurasian Oystercatcher and Bar-tailed Godwit, commonly seen on the Sewri mudflats, have been added to the list of endangered birds.
MUMBAI: The National Green Tribunal, in a landmark order, directed a developer to remit Rs 3 crore towards the environmental relief fund and stopped the construction and sale of a slum rehabilitati
MUMBAI: Ten years after it sought objections and suggestions on the regional development plan for the Mahabaleshwar-Panchgani eco-sensitive zone (MPESZ), the state government has finally approved i
MUMBAI: In a major victory for environmental activists, the state government has decided to shift the site of one of the depots for Metro II from a Charkop plot partly covered by mangroves to Malwa
