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

The upmarket stretch of Netaji Subhash Chandra Marg, popularly known as Marine Drive, and one of Mumbai’s oldest roads to be built and later concretised, will soon get a new lease of life at a cost

The Maharashtra government is examining issues relating to the implementation of uniform power rate in Mumbai. This was triggered by a report prepared by Price waterhouse Coopers (PwC) given to the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC).

Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar had recently announced the state was keen to introduce a uniform rate, as prevalent in Delhi. The announcement came during the recent civic body elections, where he also stated the government would take the necessary decision after looking into pertinent administrative, legal and regulatory issues.

The Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) took the first step towards providing the growing city population with mass rapid transport system by holding preliminary site inspection for Nagpur Metro along with project consultant DMRC on Thursday. NIT Chairman Pravin Darade led the team to routes previously suggested by L&T Ramboll, which had prepared the initial feasibility study report for this project. NMC Commissioner Sanjeev Jaiswal also accompanied the team that later had a detailed discussion at the NIT headquarter.

The Maharashtra government has sought the Centre’s intervention to get adequate coal supply from Coal India subsidiaries and Singareni Collieries.

What state-run Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (Mahagenco) gets since November last year is 18 to 20 rakes a day — as against the daily domestic coal requirement of 24 rakes. The deficit from Western Coalfields is affecting the generation of the thermal generation plant with a capacity of 6,480 Mw. Mahagenco is losing daily generation of 1,000 Mw for want of coal.