The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) today informed the Bombay High Court that it would pass its final order in the Lavasa case within three weeks.
The state government plans to rope in more than 4,000 anganwadi workers across Maharashtra to play the role of whistleblowers against families and doctors misusing sonography machines to identify a
About 30,000 farmers in Maharashtra are feeling cheated. The soybean seeds they had purchased from the state seed corporation, Mahabeej, failed to germinate this season. About 40,000 hectares (ha) of farms in seven districts have been affected. Mahabeej has 45 per cent share in the soy seed business in the state.
Many parts of the city on both banks of the Mutha river were affected by floodwaters on Saturday as 67,000 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water, the maximum in the season, was released from Khad
The consent fees being charged by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for setting up new industries and operating them has been raised with immediate effect.
New Delhi: The shipping ministry is planning to put restrictions on the entry of over 25-year-old ships to Indian coasts to avoid the recent RAK Carrier-like incident that occurred in Mumbai.
Out of 102,692 children aged zero to six, 779 are in severe malnutrition category
Four-year-old Pravin Maskare has spent a fortnight at the Nutrition Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) in Gondia where his weight increased to 8.3 kg. Even that is far from the ideal, but his mother is unwilling to let him continue here for another week, despite medical advice.
