After potholes, there is now a new menace to face on city roads. With underground pipelines resulting in rapid soil erosion below the roads, cave-ins have become increasingly frequent.

Mumbai accounts for 55.3 per cent of malaria cases in Maharashtra, which in turn accounts for 13.4 per cent of malaria cases in the country.

Months ago, when a bunch of “foreigners” came to meet Nileema Mishra, she considered it as just another visit by people who wanted to see her work.

Increasing population, mainly due to migration, is putting significant strain on the civic amenities in the city and adversely affecting the environment of Pune.

The Energy and Resource Institute (Teri), the reputed environment institute, has failed to determine the carbon footprint of the city.

Two National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) scientists, Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni and Dattatraya H Dethe, have been selected as young associates of the Indian Academy of Sciences for 2011-14.

The Maharashtra government has filed an intervention appeal before the Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court against its order of July 12 to incinerate toxic waste from the former Union C

Garnier and The Times of India joint initiative Take Care Take Charge ended on a high note with thousands of volunteers undertaking environment friendly activities to commemorate TCTC Day.

Mumbai: In light of the ministry of food and civil supplies’ failure to implement the ban on bullock carts transporting kerosene on Mumbai’s streets despite the government decision two years ago to

Nagpur: The detailed project report (DPR) of the Damanganga-Pinjal link, a project to share water of two river basins across Maharashtra and Gujarat is likely to be ready by the end of this year.