On Thursday morning, when a labourer, acting on the BMC’s instructions, arrived to chop down five trees outside the ITC Grand Central Hotel, on Dr Shirodkar Road at Parel, the residents of the area

Villagers opposing the 10,000 MW Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district have decided to launch an economic non-cooperation movement against Nuclear Power Corporation of

GAIL India is in the process of making operational the long delayed LNG terminal at Dabhol in Maharahstra by month-end or by early April, Chairman and Managing Director B. C. Tripathi said here on Monday.

GAIL owns 31.52 per cent stake in Ratnagiri Gas and Power Co Ltd. (RGPL), which owns the 1,967 MW power plant and the adjacent five million tonnes a year LNG import terminal.

With land acquisition being a major challenge for undertaking projects in the metropolis, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to follow a model from Gujarat where land owners are made partners in the developmental projects.

The MMRDA, which plans to develop a 126-km-long multi-modal corridor(MMC) running from Virar in the north-west fringes of the city to Alibaug, which is situated on the south-eastern periphery, is planning to adopt the Gujarat model of land acquisition by making land-owners partners in the project.

Union Minister for Rural Development, Drinking Water and Sanitation Jairam Ramesh announced a national award for sanitation and water in the name of Maharashtrian saint Sant Gadge Baba.

The Minister toured several villages in Satara district in Maharashtra to inspect the work of the Nirmal Gram Yojana for sanitation on Sunday.

The Sewri mudflats in Mumbai, home to a rich biodiversity, including flamingoes, is under threat from a development project.

Over 160 people from Dharavi, many of them children, were hospitalised on Thursday as they took ill after playing Holi allegedly with toxic colours. While some children fainted or felt giddy, others went blue as the contaminated colours were ingested, witnesses and doctors said. Four children and one adult are serious and in the ICU of Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital in Sion.

The incident was reported around 1.30 pm when a bunch of boys fainted in a lane near Dharavi. Soon, many more cases started getting reported around Dharavi and Sion.

After a lull of many months, swine flu infection has reared its head again.

MUMBAI: Holi revelry took on a nightmarish hue in parts of the city on Thursday as "colour poisoning" caused the death of a child and led to the hospitalization of scores of others.

Citizens can expect their commuting woes to soon be addressed with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) planning to complete work on major infrastructure projects in the com