Mumbai: It's time the world woke up to the threat of global warming, says Harriet Nimmo, CEO, Wildscreen, which delivers the world's biggest wildlife and environmental film festival. Nimmo, along with nine environmental filmmakers from the UK, is in the city as part of the British Council-organised Wildscreen Festival.

Mumbai: With the state's revenue deficit almost reaching Rs2,300 crore due to a drastic fall in revenue collections, Maharashtra's debt burden has touched Rs1.54 lakh crore this fiscal.

Also, with expenditure on employees reaching 49% and a revenue deficit of 5% as a target, development work in the state is expected to take a hit.

Mumbai: Babanrao Pachpute, the state forest minister, wants a mining project on the outskirts of Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. So much so that he has threatened an NGO of dire consequences for opposing the project.

Mumbai: Raigad's farmers are up in arms against the government, which, they say, is working in favour of Reliance for the proposed SEZ in their area and for this purpose wants to establish that 22 villages do not come under the command area of the Hetwane dam.

Mumbai: The city's traffic police, which is conducting a 10-day long 'No Honking Drive', on Thursday fined 1,804 motorists for unnecessarily honking while driving on the city streets on the first day.

Mumbai: Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's message of Kar ke Dekho, a group of 10 women in Nashik have started a movement to encourage the use of cloth bags and reject plastic ones.

Mumbai: Whatever the elite do, they do it in style. The upscale Juhu residents have given a whole new meaning to citizen-led initiative.

Not wanting the overground Metro Rail literally staring into their homes, they have been pitching for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to go underground for the 8-km stretch from Juhu to Linking Road.

Mumbai: Water shortage is a prime concern for Mumbaikars. The municipal corporation had promised citizens 24x7 water supply by the beginning of 2012.

Mumbai: The drive to capture wild elephants from the forest in Sawantvadi has once again hit a road block following opposition from people from Dodamarg.

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has formed an association of NGOs and IT firms to establish an environment-friendly and sustainable system for managing e-waste in the city.

According to MPCB estimates, Mumbai generates around 23,000 metric tonnes of e-waste a year, and if not managed properly, this could be a major cause for concern by
2015.