At a time when the Mumbai city should be addressing a problem of depleting greenery, the BMC's Tree Authority has granted permission to Piramal Holdings Limited to fell a peepal tree that is more

The Chief Minister's office has directed Mumbai police to conduct a high level investigation into threats made to a senior Wildlife Preservation Officer, who coordinated a series of seizures of rare

The contrast could not be better defined. The entire precinct of the Gateway of India, including the approach roads, are free of litter and garbage. Elsewhere in the city, behind Juhu Centaur hotel

A two inch star fish is sent back to its abode in the Arabian Sea after enduring a brief forced holiday in Pune. Monica Joshi, the Pune resident whose saved the starfish from some students, which

Perhaps it is difficult, but getting their hands on a packet of gutkha is certainly not an impossible task for thousands of gutkha addicts in the state. The Government of Maharashtra may have

The drought in Rajasthan has forced an ugly turn in the traditional battle between authorities at the Ranthambhor National Park in Sawi Madhopur and residents of villages ringing the sanctuary. On

There is some good news for tree lovers who have been striving to protect two old trees on Veer Savarkar Road in Dadar (Maharashtra). Reportedly, two year ago the two century old rain trees on the

With India on its way to invest an annual Rs 125 crore for universal Hepatitis-B vaccination, public health experts from CEHAT Dr Anand Phadke and Dr Ashok Kale were in Mumbai to impress upon people

A positive breakthrough for environmentalists fighting to preserve the mangroves of Versova (city survey number 161) has now come by way of the latest order of the Bombay High Court. Responding to

In one of the biggest raids against gutka stockists in the Maharashtra, the Colaba police seized pouches of the banned product worth Rs 33 lakh from a godown in South Mumbai. They arrested four