Now, what's new about a handy device that promises crystal-clear drinking water straight from municipal taps? For starters, an application for an Indian patent is in the works from the Bhabha Atomic

To tackle the problem of poor health services in tribal areas, often leading to malnutrition deaths, the Democratic Front (DF) government plans to hand over some vital schemes to NGOs. The

Even as Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh sought to emulate a policy to protect 'genuine' adivasis living on forest fighting a different battle of its own - one of saving the fast

With the Ganpati festival hardly 15 days away, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has been unable to stop trees being cut to accomodate Ganpati pandals. Nearly 45 trees were 'pruned'along the

Armed MCC Naxaliters attacked a group of villagers collecting firewood from the Chumba forests in Hazaribad (Jharkhand). Six villagers were killed in the incident and 10 others seriously injured. Two

The Bombay High Court upheld the Maharashtra State Government's decision to ban the sale of pan masala and gutkha saying it was in the interest of public health. The division bench of Justice R M

With deputy Prime Minister L K Advani flagging off the trail run of the metro rail in Delhi, the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) too has evinced interest in a similar

The civic Standing Committee's decision on August 13 to reject a Rs 67-crore proposal which would have enabled the BMC to purchase additional vehicles for upgrading their solid waste disposal work

Amid the speeding traffic and plumes of exhaust on the Mumbai Urban highway, a rare sighting created a twitter in the reed swamps across the harbour at Urban. Spotted exactly 50 years after it last

Next time you visit Mantralaya or any Maharashtra government office or even the official residence of a bureaucrat, make sure that you do not spit in a corner or smoke a cigarette. A nuisance

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