"Our wells have dried up. The Kushawati river has turned muddy. Agriculture is our only means of livelihood but we are being reduced to a state of penury," says a tearful Govind Gopal Phadte, a

The Bombay High Court directed the traffic police to declare an area of 100 metres around its premises in Churchgate as a "Zone of Silence'. Failure to comply could result in a fine or having to

Seventy three talukas in ten districts in the Maharashtra state are facing severe drought conditions notwithstanding the predictions of meteorological experts that 2003 will be a good rainfall year,

Is Mumbai earning the dubious distinction of becoming the AIDS capital of India? Considering the figures released by the public health department, the answer to that question may be a scary one. As

The Gorai Dumping Ground Hatao Kruti Samiti (Mumbai) held a press conference to highlight the environmental and health hazard caused by the increasing mountain of garbage at the Gorai Creek.

Madhya Pradesh has taken a big step towards developing its side of the Pench National Park on the lines of Kanha National Park, but the Maharashtra Government seems to be in no hurry to act on the

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh denied that delayed payments for procurement of cotton was responsible for suicides by cotton growers in Vidarbha but said the Collector would be asked to

Nuclear medicine will soon bring good news to the four legged world- a nuclear medicine facility exclusively for 'animal health-care' from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). In a first for

Political parties have joined hands to protect the crisis-ridden sugar lobby in western Maharashtra, but there has been no real effort to salvage Vidarbha's cotton farmers who are in deep trouble due

Even as fresh curbs on power consumption in Maharashtra, effective from next week, are targeted to cut commercial power consumption by some 20 per cent, the MSEB top brass chose to keep their fingers