The Maharashtra government's severe resource crunch has a new casualty - the wildlife in the state. A proposal to create water holes for wild animals, especially leopards, to prevent them from

Months after Maharashtra government loudly denied that children were dying of malnourishment in rural Thane, Khanevali primary health centre (PHC), which recorded 26 young deaths from April to

A day before the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's three-month-old cleanliness drive, the 'Swachha Mumbai Abhiyan', completes three months, civic officials have charterised it as a 'great

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to make segregation of garbage by domestic households compulsory all over the city in the coming months.

Polly the Senegal parrot is sulking today and does not flick a feather or eavesdrop on lofty drawing room talk about just how to meet aspirations and solve problems ' of bird owners in Maharashtra.

The sugar industry in western Maharashtra, considered as the sugar bowl of the state, is facing an unprecedented crisis as problem of scarcity of sugarcane is looming large on the crushing season of

A two-member committee set up by the Union Ministry of Environment(MoEF) to inspect complaints of mangroves being destroyed for constructing a golf course finally made its scheduled visit.The visit

Maharashtra health minister Digvijay Khanvilkar admitted that the number of areas from which dengue cases have been reported is on the rise. The health authorities have thus far detected dengue cases

The Maharashtra Forest Department has sought addition time from the Supreme Court for removing encroachments on forest land, in view of the hardships the eviction will cause encroachers, 73000 of

Blame it, in time-honored tradition, on the vagaries of nature. In early September, Commissioner Bipin Chand Sharma the official who was to decide on the allotment of drought-related jobs, visited