MUMBAI: The state government In what is an indication of indiscriminate sand mining carried out in the state, the government on Wednesday admitted to 8,200 instances of illegal sand mining being re

MUMBAI: With civic elections round the corner, the Democratic Front (DF) government announced a CID probe into the multi crore drain cleaning contracts awarded by the Shiv Sena-BJP ruled BMC.

A foreign firm, OEC-RVA-PHE, has been asked by the Pune district collector, Vikas Deshmukh, to prepare a pre-feasibility report on ways to control pollution in the Indrayani river.

The BMC will soon have a tree manual which will give comprehensive information about trees in the city and lay down guidelines about how they should be maintained.

Varad Giri is the deputy director (collections) of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), an organisation working for conservation of nature for the last 127 years.

The first national-level advanced training programme in earth system sciences and climate will kick off on August 8 at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune.

Vidya Niketan English Medium School, run by the Tata Motors Employees' Education Trust, has bagged 7th rank in the national-level green school programme competition organised by the Centre for Scie

The sand slipped off at Vaitaran Bridge on Western railway on Vaitarna Creek due to heavy rainfall of last two days washed away the railway tracks at Vaitaran on Westerns railway on Monday morning.

While Uttar Pradesh has not reported a single case of polio in the past 15 months, Malegaon in Maharashtra has emerged as the new area of concern in the fight against the crippling disease.

Fed up of pesticide laden vegetables? Then why not grow organic vegetables at home. No space? Even a small gallery or even unused bottles and cans are enough to grow vegetables at home. How?