While the Maharashtra government is considering guidelines to restrict mobile towers from coming up near hospitals and schools, doctors at Jerbai Wadia hospital in Parel have asked the administrati

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) had earlier roped in the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) to conduct the assessment, which is primarily required so that the government can fix a compensation amount to charge the owners based on damage caused. But, they have now approached the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI). “We were in talks with NIO and they even collected samples. But they couldn’t commit to our deadline of a month,” said Valsa Nair Singh, state environment secretary.

In September last year, the High Court had asked the Maharashtra government and the Thane Municipal Corporation to ensure that Ganesh and Janmashtami pandals follow noise regulations, and had directed that a committee be formed in this regard. On Wednesday, the court criticised the inaction of the committee which was created to come up with a plan to avoid chaos during festivals.

After a long legal battle, Lavasa Construction Ltd, the project proponents of Lavasa, has agreed to accept the five ‘preconditions’ specified by the MoEF, over which the clearance was stuck. The Board of Lavasa Construction Ltd had met recently and passed a resolution stating they were ready to accept all the riders imposed by the ministry. In the next court hearing, the company will reiterate its stand.

As the movement against the government’s daft Lokpal Bill gathers momentum, another proposal recommending five measures to tackle corruption is doing the rounds.

The city’s Ganesha mandals will now spread awareness on female foeticide after the dipping child sex ratio and rising cases of female foeticide in the state that has become a cause of worry for eve

Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has written to the Union environment ministry as well as the shipping ministry about the need for India to become a signatory to two international conventions that

Thirty-five years ago, the state government had promised to allocate 1 acre of land to each of the 860 farmers who were displaced because of land acquisition for the Pawna dam in Pune district.

The team of divers deployed to check the wreckage and assess the amount of oil spillage happening from the tanks of sunk ship MV Rak Carrier began their operation on Thursday by identifying wreckag