The 32-km elevated second phase of the metro rail project which will connect Charkop and Mankhurd via Bandra will have 27 stations.

After the state government okayed the project, the Centre accorded its in-principal approval to the line in February 2007. Two years ago, the cost of the project was pegged at Rs5,616 crore. Now, it has been estimated that the project would cost almost Rs8,400 crore.

The deadline for the project is 2012. The Ambani brothers, it has been learnt, will bid for the project.

Ninad Siddhaye
Monday, October 13, 2008 03:36 IST

One of the many projects of Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) is of building thousands of toilet blocks across Mumbai Metropolitan Region. However, the condition of the toilets in its own backyard seems to be very poor.

Pune is a water-rich city with four dams and three rivers supplying water.

Following the nuclear disaster at Japan

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has intensified its drive to clean the Mula river of the rapidly proliferating water hyacinth.

On Monday, malaria surveillance inspector Govind Satpute and his team were spotted cleaning the Mula river, which is covered hyacinth, after successfully cleaning Pashan lake.

Satpute, who has been undertaking this activity for the last eight years, said removin

He is neither Shah Rukh Khan from Swades nor is he young or foreign-returned.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has announced strict action against those who fail to segregate garbage and those found burning waste. The PMC staff too has been warned of action if found burning waste.

The decision follows efforts by the National Society for Clean Cities (NSCC) to persuade the civic body officials to take steps in the matter.

After successfully stalling the project of Dow Chemicals in the state, the warkari community is now preparing for a bigger battle

The electricity generated from the proposed 9,900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) will be double, even triple the cost of electricity from coal- or gas-fired plants, according to a report.

Depending on the cost of capital, the unit cost of electricity from Jaitapur would come to Rs5 to Rs8 per kilowatt per hour.

The same unit from a thermal or gas operated plant costs Rs2 to 2.5 onl

Forget about the highly questionable technology for the proposed 1,650 megawatt nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district from the French power major Areva, or even the objections of the Finnish environmental watchdog body STUK for the Olkiluoto plant, which is being replicated at Jaitapur.

The fact is that nothing can prevent time overruns and, therefore, cost escalation.