In the first high-level red-flag against the UPA government’s flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has told Prime Minister Man
A senior Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) official on Thursday claimed that the ministry of environment and forests had given coastal regulation zone (CRZ) clearance to the
Only 26% of the state’s population has enrolled for the Unique Identification (UID) card scheme so far. The target was to enroll 80% of the state’s population by March 2012.
More than 800 villages in the districts of Satara and Sangli were officially declared scarcity-hit by the state government following severe shortage of water and fodder.
Five Thane-based researchers, including two doctors, have created a device that can measure haemoglobin, oxygen saturation level in the blood and monitor heart rate without the prick of a needle fo
A draft national recovery plan for the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard (GIB) and the endangered Lesser Florican has been submitted to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) by a
The city improvement committee (CIC) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday approved a Rs715-crore project to develop five new sewage treatment plants and augment capacity of five existi
More than six years after it was proposed, the civic administration has now asked the Central Government to fund the Rs 1,675 crore Mithi River Project, with a view to ease the financial burden.
The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), which awarded the contract to build Worli-Haji Ali sea-link to Reliance Infrastructure last year, has hinted at scrapping the deal with t
