At a time when Mumbai is on the path to a huge makeover, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests is arming itself with more teeth to ensure that development of real estate or new townships

By the end of this monsoon, Mumbaiites can expect stricter vigil and more stringent efforts to rein in dust and gases like oxides of nitrogen and sulphur that pollute the city's air.

The planning commission didn't brand Maharashtra a failed state for nothing. Reports from the ground in Marathwada and Vidarbaha not only confirms this, but suggest much worse. A Pune based study

The farmers have committed suicide in the past three months in the Chandwad, Sinnar and Niphad tehsils of Nashik district, Maharashtra after the prices of onions and grapes crashed this season.

A little over a month after the Bombay High Court appointed a three-member panel to inspect the mangrove land at Bandra-Kurla Complex and Kanjurmarg

By 2030, Mumbai will be producing 10,530 tonnes of garbage per day, excluding construction and demolition debris that's currently pegged at 2,000 tonnes daily. That's why, the 141-hectare Kanjurmarg

As 24,396 trees along the Mumbai-Nashik highway face the axe for four-laning of the busy traffic corridor to reduce travelling time from 3.5 to 4 hours to less than 2.5 hours, the Maharashtra

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to map the 10,000 listed and an estimated equal number of unlisted wells in the city to monitor Mumbai's ground water. With this, civic

Talk about disparities. It's not only girl children who have gone missing in Maharashtra - the girl boy sex ratio was 917:1000 as per the 2001 census - even the sterilisation programme is biased,

One tree for every 30 Mumbaiites. That was the grim arithmetic announced by the last tree census in the commercial capital. Seven years on, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is ready to do