A recent study conducted by Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Canada, on 'Tobacco and Poverty revealed rampant use of tobacco and tobacco products among street children.

As Mumbaiites curse the sweltering October heat, the weather couldn't be more perfect for the Aedes agypti mosquito. The consequence: 39 confirmed cases of dengue in the city thus far, compared to

After virtually dumping the Monopoly Cotton Procurement Scheme (MCPS), the Maharashtra government is sitting pretty even as many individual traders and agencies all over the state have begun the

The 26-year-old Mahim resident, James Godwin (Maharashtra) who was recently assaulted for complaining about illegal tree-cutting in his area, has now decided to move the high court to ensure qucker

The Mumbai civic administration has reported 14 cases of dengue in October, the season when the Aedes Agypti mosquito finds it conductive to breed and its numbers multiply dramatically. Saying that

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's cleanliness drive, seems to have skipped certain areas of the city. One such area is Kachpada, a bustling residental-cum-industrail locality in Malad (W).

Two months after the civic administration launched its three-month cleanliness drive,'Swachha Mumbai Abhiyan', seeking to clean -up the city streets and neighbourhoods, it admits that the drive is

Residents in a Dahisar locality (Maharashtra) are up in arms against unit-holders in an industrial estate, complaining of pollution and related health afflictions. Several residents in Dahisar (West)

Long before cars thundered down the Mumbai-Pune expressway at 120 kmph, the Wildlife Institute of India at Dehradun had once estimated that the fragile forest cover along this stretch is home to 17

The Maharashtra government has now opposed a apex ruling declaring 498 sq kms of Matheran, mumbaites' favourite weekend haunt, as an eco-sensitive zone almost a year after the SC ruling in July 2001.