Maharashtra Cabinet changes norms to make present occupiers of slums eligible for rehabilitation.

Ahead of the crucial elections to the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation next month, the Maharashtra government on Monday took a crucial decision with regard to the eligibility of the occupiers of slums for rehabilitation with cut off date of January 1, 2000 and of those structures which have come up prior to January 1, 1995, in the city.

MUMBAI: The environment status report published by the BMC in September this year lays the blame of greater pollution levels on construction in the city.

Even as the row over huge donations made by Indiabulls to a foundation headed by controversial public works minister Chhagan Bhujbal is yet to die down, the issue of IT parks constructed by the con

After a series of reports by TOI on the need to protect the ecofragile Mangar area and adjoining forests in the Aravalis in Faridabad, the district administration has sent a detailed report to the

Concered by the implications of the frenzied construction along the Senapati Bapat Marg in Lower Parel, the state environment committee has decided to reject environmental clearance (EC) to major c

The State government, which has already borrowed about $650 million from external sources to upgrade some of the major roads and State highways, recently made additional borrowings of $15 million t

NONGPOH: The ongoing construction of the four lane Jorabat-Umiam road in Ri-Bhoi district undertaken by the Ramky Infrastructure Pvt Ltd is posing a serious threat to the local residents of 20 Mile

Maharashtra Pollution Control Board had filed criminal complaint

In a move that will initiate the prosecution of Lavasa Corporation, a Pune court on Thursday ordered issue of process against nine directors and six officials of the Corporation.

Mumbai Chief ministers of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala agreed on Monday there could be a case for allowing state governments more leeway in giving environmental approvals, with Madhya Pra

New Delhi Almost a year after it slapped stop-work orders on Hindustan Construction Company's (HCC) flagship hill city project at Lavasa near Pune, the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on