Mumbai, November 6 The Urban Development department is deliberating on the idea to link the Mumbai and Navi Mumbai airports via a monorail along the proposed Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL).

Pune, November 6 S Sivaram, director, National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), inaugurated the garbage composting facility in the laboratory campus here on Thursday.

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THE Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will close down the facility for slaughter of buffaloes for export within two years, the decision coming ahead of elections and under mounting pressure from the Jain community.

Pune, November 04 The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), while admitting to its shortcomings, has trained guns on the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) for not sharing the responsibility for the accident that killed seven at the biomedical waste disposal plant in Kailash crematorium on September 11.

If the state power utility accepts the proposal submitted by consumer associations to tide over the power crisis, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Pune areas will get uninterrupted electricity on three working days.

Pune, November 03 Equine flu suspected as horses wheeze and sneeze; will not be able to race for at least a month

Mumbai, November 03 A few months from now, the foul-smelling Deonar, where the country

Adoption of the Bollgard-II version of the genetically modified (GM) cotton has increased four-fold since its commercial launch in 2006. Improved yield and better control of pests have resulted in the cotton area under the variety rising to 45 lakh acres.

When it comes to public services like access to water and sanitation, it has been proved that turning to the private sector is hardly the solution. Public Public Partnerships (PUPs), on the other hand, have achieved remarkable successes worldwide by forging open, democratic and dynamic relationships between State institutions and communities.

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