The Ambad Industries and Manufacturers Association (AIMA) has threatened to organise a bandh against a recent directive of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board on waste

For centuries, Kashmir has been the only home to the Hangul a rare and endangered species of the red deer family. However, if mismanagement and official neglect in the Dachigam Sanctuary, the last

As the sun threads its way through dense foliage and melts the morning haze, a pair of vibrantly coloured petals detaches form a shrub and hovers in mid air. The illusion of a flower defying

For 3,000 odd families residing in Garodia Nagar, Gharkopar, there may finally be some solution to the unsavoury sanitation High Court. The BMC has estimated the cost of repairing the sewage system

The yellow bags should have discarded limbs, tissue and other potentially infectious anatomical waste that needs to be incinerated at superhot temperature.At the heart of a medical waste crisis

Twenty suspected cases of Leptospirosis have been detected across the city in the last fortnight, according to civic health officials. Leptospirosis is a febrile (fever inducing) disease caused by

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation , the official mediator for collection and transportation of medical waste, has put its foot down. It has decided it will only collect bio-medical waste from

Taking environmental concerns seriously . Thane civic chief Sanjay Sethi ordered the construction of eco-friendly immersion ponds for Ganesh idols at two locations in Thane.The artificial immersion

Water samples from 10 places in Mumbai and one in Thane and submitted for testing at a reputed laboratory. Slums were excluded from the survey. Considering the results, 40 percent of water in Mumbai

It will take a whopping Rs 100 crore but one of the city's landmarks will undergo a sea change. That's the 53 year old Taraporewala Aquqarium at Charni Road, which will give way to a state of the art