After extending legal cover to all slums that came up prior to January 1, 2000, the Congress-led Democratic Front government has now legitimised occupants of protected slum homes till 2013.

In a notification issued by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan-led Urban Development (UD) department on March 3, the government has said “it intends to rehabilitate slum-dwellers who have been residing continuously for at least one year in protected slum structures.”

The first vulture conservation breeding centre in western India is set to come up in Thane district, with Maharashtra’s forest department recently clearing a proposal by the Bombay Natural History

The Maharashtra Forest Department (MFD) is working on a proposal to notify up to 7 to 8 kilometres of mangrove forests and adjoining mudflats along the western part of the Thane creek as a ‘wildlif

In a major deviation from its earlier stand, which had said no cellphone towers within 100 m of schools and hospitals, the improvements committee of the BMC Tuesday approved its new cellphone tower

There is no cause of alarm with regard to possible ill-effects on human health by electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation from cellphone towers and cellphones because the limits adopted in India acco

The rehabilitation component of the Navi Mumbai Airport project has hit a roadblock as a major portion of the 57 hectares of land, meant to relocate project affected people (PAP), has been classif

Even as the country’s first monorail is scheduled to open for public use Sunday after a delay of three years, commuters are likely to face a few constraints initially.

The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside a 2008 Bombay High Court judgment that had declared illegal about 5 lakh homes in Mumbai, which it said were built on forest land.

The Supreme Court castigated the state government for its “Rip Van Winkleism”, saying various state authorities had routinely given permissions to construct over a long period of time, and had even collected property tax.

THE slum areas of wards M-East and M-West under zone seven and wards T and S under zone six of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) have been identified as highly socio-economic vulne

Mumbai : Decrease in dissolved oxygen levels at Kanderpada talao in Dahisar could have led to the sudden death of all the fish in it, as per a report on water samples from the pond received by the local ward office Monday.

It reveals an increase in the amount of mineral and organic nutrients that “may be harmful to aquatic life” and a reduction in dissolved oxygen levels in the pond.