A day before the potentially lucrative and contentious redevelopment of Mumbai's mill lands is heard in the Supreme Court, the issue just got more tangled with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

If all goes to plan, by June the city will get additional land for disposal of the 6,400 kg of bio medical waste it generates every day. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPBC) in coordination

CourtTaking serious note of the depleting mangrove cover in the city, a two- member division bench of the Bombay High Court headed by Chief Justice Dalveer Bhandari on Tuesday asked the state to

The Maharashtra Government ordered a judicial probe into the deaths of 26 deer and black bucks at Solapur municipal zoo on March 28.

Close on the heels of the discovery of a polio patient in Malegaon, two more suspected polio cases have been found in Nashik city, prompting health authorities to plan a special vaccination drive.

Dickensian Road (Mumbai), a poison zone of 1,000 illegal toxic industries-recycling batteries, making dyes-that have wormed their way into a residential area that was supposed to be a green belt. As

The heat's stifling in Raigad district's little wadi of Khamgaon about 200 kms south of Mumbai . But the scenario is in marked contrast to the drought pictures of the past. Water collected in the

Over the last few decades, the city has lost more than 70 percent of its mangroves . In the fast growing western suburbs of Goregaon and Malad, a once verdant 1,000 acre stretch is now just 400 odd

A latest confidential report of the Tribal Development Department says 6,655 children have died due to malnutrition in the State's tribal region in December last year. The report says the period form

Asthma prevalence in Mumbai hovers around a high of 17 percent. The tendency to develop asthma is around 27 percent "Forty percent of children wheeze in their first year," says Rohini Chowgule,