The Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI), a statutory body of the central government, has issued an advisory to chief secretaries of all state governments and the Indian Pest Control Association to prohibit the use, sale and manufacture of glue traps to catch rodents, as they are harmful to the animals. The board has also written to the Directorate of Foreign Trade asking for a ban on the import of these traps.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the Thane Mayor to hold a meeting with corporators to create awareness among people about noise pollution ahead of the Ganpati and Navratri festivals.

The city’s first Metro rail trial run, for which a four-compartment train was procured last year, is likely to take place by December-end, after a delay of over a year, on the Versova-Andheri stretch.

The Central government is likely to table the Nuclear Safety Regulatory Authority Bill in the current session of Parliament, which will set up the Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (AERA) as a sta

Pune Construction activity at Lavasa, Pune — being developed by Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) — has been at a standstill for the last nine months as the stop work order issued by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) is yet to be withdrawn.

The chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), CP Gautam, on Sunday said more than 60% of distilleries in the state do not comply with pollution control laws, becoming a major source o

Though the central government’s land acquisition and rehabilitation Bill is yet to be passed by Parliament, the Maharashtra government has proposed to incorporate a provision relating to annuity payment to families affected by the Jaitapur nuclear power project in the state.

The malaria menace seems to finally have lost its bite. Against the 17,000 malaria cases recorded in the city till August last year, only 2,500 cases have been recorded this year.

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.