MUMBAI: The slowdown has forced the BMC to act tough with central, state and semi-government organisations.

The civic body plans to instal water meters in government properties across the city so that it can calculate error-free water consumption by these units.

NAVI MUMBAI: Several malls have mushroomed over the last three years - five have sprung up in Vashi itself - and mall culture is here to stay. But how many of these mammoth structures, which record thousands of footfalls daily, think of culturing the huge amount of waste they inevitably generate? Well, one mall has made an innovative, eco-friendly beginning in this direction.

MUMBAI: The World Bank (WB) and the state government are close to signing an agreement on a $300-million loan for the second phase of the Mumbai

Urban Transport Project (MUTP-II), which aims to improve the rail network in the city and suburbs.

MUMBAI: With the July 26, 2005, floods still fresh in public memory, the civic body continues in its quest for a flood-free Mumbai. The Chitale Committee, set up immediately after the calamity, recommended that the existing network of Storm Water Drains (SWD) be augmented to cater to a rainfall intensity of 50mm/hour from the current 25mm as per the recommendation of Brimstowad report.

Cooper Hospital set for green makeover

MUMBAI: Dr R N Cooper Hospital in Vile Parle will be the city's first-ever green hospital. The BMC was forced to go back to the drawing table after the ministry of environment and forests insisted that it consider alternate sources of energy and other environmentally friendly technologies to run the hospital.

MUMBAI: Irked at the delay in completing the Rs 109-crore Santa Cruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR), the World Bank (WB) on Thursday asked Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to release resettlement package for 404 project affected people (PAPs) to expedite the project.

MUMBAI: Whether it's two young women pioneering a community-led environmental revolution in the rich islands of Lakhadweep or a teacher in a remote village in Rajasthan who worked with his students towards reducing a thorny shrub, these unknown footsoldiers are doing what they can to save the environment in any little way possible.

MUMBAI: Although the city has been allotted an additional water supply of 100 million litres a day (mld) since January 6, the BMC has not been able to carry it to Mumbaikars' taps.

MUMBAI: The colourful building blocks or toy houses might keep your children engaged for hours, but the heavy metals they contain could harm them for life. And it's not just Chinese toys, but Indian toys which are the culprit too.