The indiscriminate felling of mangroves is finally under the Bombay High Court Dahisar, the last village on the western edge of Mumbai with its vast belt of mangroves along Manori creekm to raise
For the first time in the history of India, panchayats have been placed under a separate minister. While the Rural Development Ministry has gone to RJD's Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the Congress which
The Rotary Club of Bombay Metropolitan works with SHARE - the corporate social responsibility unit of United Television - to bring simple rain harvesting system to Raigad's villages, which face acute
The bundle of dry skin with its protruding ribcage lies a hundred metres away from the road at the foot of the balding brown hills at Taylornagar in Osmanabad. From a distance, the carcass looks like
In a pilot project in three schools in Maharashtra, environmental education leaves the confines of the classroom as kids visit mangroves and learn to farm. As part of a pilot project titled 'School
The Consumer Guidance society of India (CGSI) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court criticising a government report on pesticide levels in beverages for not being
The single monitoring van doesn't work. So pollution control authority wants to outsource. On March 31, in an affidavit submitted to the Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board
The quality of air Mumbai breathes has slid way beyond safe levels to the worst polluted among seven major cities nationwide. The indication is clear from results - posted on the Central Pollution