The Union environment ministry on Wednesday gave environmental clearance (EC) to the controversial Lavasa hill township project near Pune in Maharashtra.

After a year-long legal battle, the environment ministry on Wednesday granted a conditional clearance to the first phase of the multi-crore Lavasa Hill City project in Maharashtra.

Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare has criticised Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for making a pro-Lavasa statement.

PANJIM: After doing its job and thinking they had gotten away, the government is on the back foot as Herald is asking serious questions to Chief Minister Digambar Kamat on the role he, the revenue

Four-lane highways, a mega desalination plant, construction of houses, schools, hospitals as well as cold storages are amongst the suggestions to the central government made by former president A.P

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) on Friday filed a criminal complaint against the promoters and officials of Lavasa Corporation for violating the Environment Protection Act (EPA), eve

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) would file criminal proceedings against Lavasa Corporation tomorrow in a Pune magistrate's court under Section 15 of the Environment Protection Act, 1

With the deadline for the Maharashtra Government to take ‘credible' action against Lavasa Corporation's hill city project drawing to a close tomorrow, indications are that the State Government will

The Maharashtra government will move the magistrate court at Pune 'in a day or two' against Lavasa, HCC's flagship project, for environmental violation.

JAIPUR: The urban housing and development (UDH) department is looking into the possibility of increasing the construction area of houses falling under Rajiv Awas Yojana, an affordable housing schem