A big fire lit up a leak in the CNG pipeline of Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) on Jumbo Darshan Road near Sahar airport (Mumbai)at 6.10 pm. The fire brigade from the airport reached the spot promptly to

30-odd NSS students from R A Podar College who ae volunteered at Maharashtra Nature Park at Dharavi, to dig a part of their rainwater harvesting pond. Come next monsoon, the pond woudl make the

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Executive Health Officer R M Kathuria to comment on the dangerous contamination detected in Mumbai's fresh vegetables, he just said: "Consumers should wash

Lakhs of bacteria, that usually swin in sewage. Toxic lead, mercury and cadmium that shatter permissible limits. That's what tests conducted on Mumbai's seemingly healthy spinach, carrots and beet

Irrigation department sources say this year's water scarcity in Ahmednagar is the worst since the drought of 1972, when close to two lakh people were put on the Employment Guarantee Scheme (EGS).

Two days after it gave a clean chit to soft drinks samples collected from a plant in Pune, the Maharashtra State Food and Drugs Administration declared that four samples picked from Pepsi's Raigad

All is not well in the cola world. With the pesticide debacle, Coca Cola and Pepsi face a threat that makes their advertising feud look like friendly sparring. The Maharashtra government might have

Finally, after debate, the Cola controversy from neighbouring Pune fixed its next date with the courtroom on August 24. The Bombay High Court has directed the public analyst to whom the seven soft

After soft drinks, it's bottled water again. The Food and Drugs Administration has suspended production of bottled water at a Bisleri India plant at Vile Parle following a complaint of presence of

The Maharashtra Government's application for a five year extension of deadline beyond January 2003, for phasing out polluting heavy vehicles came under strident attack in the Bombay High Court. The