If an ambitious state road development plan approved by the public works department is implemented, then by 2021, all the national highways passing through Maharashtra will be expressways with a mi

All eyes in the Nashik forest department are on the man-versus-beast conflict playing out in the district.

Junk food, in all its tasty and tempting forms, will soon be on its way out of school canteens.

The Adarsh housing society does not have any clearance from the Central environment ministry, and the construction of the building is therefore illegal, the director of the ministry told the Adarsh commission looking into the controversy on Thursday.

The statement has brought the issue of environmental violations in the society to prominence, barely two weeks after the issue of ownership of the land reached a degree of closure with the commission’s report holding that it belongs to the state government.

Adivasis up in arms against ‘unauthorised dams'

Faced with mounting criticism of the irrigation sector, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday ordered that a White Paper be brought out by the department, headed by Nationalist Congress Party Minister Sunil Tatkare.

Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has written a letter to the Centre seeking immediate environment clearance for the Rs8,000-crore coastal road project in Mumbai.

Corporators across party lines on Wednesday staged a walkout from the standing committee meeting, claiming the BMC administration had failed to give a satisfactory reply on the inadequate water supply. Corporators complained that despite several appeals made in the general body meetings and standing committee meetings, there was a lack of seriousness on the part of the BMC administration in this regard.

MUMBAI: A senior officer of the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), Dr A Senthil Vel, will on Wednesday take the witness stand before the judicial commission inquiring into the Adarsh

MUMBAI: Buying new cars is set to become even more expensive, with the Maharashtra Motor Vehicle Tax or road tax being raised for both petrol and diesel vehicles from May 1.

Almost 10 months after the Central government’s flagship scheme Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) was launched in Maharashtra, the state government has been able to zero in on merely two projects to be sent to the Centre for approval under the scheme.

While the state government was to address the issue of informal settlements in 16 cities in Maharashtra through RAY, the two projects that have come forward are proposals for construction of very insignificant number of houses.