A team of scientists in India and the US has cracked the mystery surronding the vagaries of the El Nino effect on monsoons. While the connection between El Nino, the name given to the periodic rise

With Sangli district having taken the lead in approaching an external consultant - IIT-Mumbai - to prepare a permanent solution to combat floods, the other four districts in Pune division seem set to

Climate change zone ahead

The Centre is set to replace its two-year old environmental clearance procedure for large-scale construction projects by September 15, a move that is being welcomed in Mumbai by all quarters. But

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) may have conducted a five-month consultative process with citizens while drafting its no-littering rules, but some of those Mumbaiites now feel that the

The 3,000-odd residents of Bhakti Park in Wadala, one of the plush townships in the city, are suffering from acute respiratory problems thanks to the ready mix cement plants on the Anik-Wadala Link

With over 3,600 hectares of Mumbai-that's land almost 10 times the size of Bandra-Kurla complex-missing the basic amenity of civic sewer lines, the city's global aspirations received a big fillip,

At a busy traffic junction in Worli, the annual average of Respirable Suspended Particulates (RSP) in the air for 2005-06, as recorded by a civic mobile monitoring van: 209 microgrammes per cubic

The retired armyman, a resident of Nairwadi on Khernani Road, has spent a year trying to stop the 1,000-odd small industrial

ON A smoggy afternoon, like the rest of the city, the locals of Shrinagar and Yadavnagar, near Khernani Road, Saki Naka, go about their business as usual. Little do the 30,000 of them living here