Has the Union ministry of environment and forests laid malicious siege to Dahanu taluka, in Maharashtra s Thane district?

Clouds of uncertainty hang over the jobs of sub-regional officers (sro) of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (mpcb). The threat is from mpcb's recently launched assessment programme, which

Village Chipri in Kolhapur, Maharashtra is fighting: diseases, a factory and lax authorities

Cannot wish ecological poverty away

The Maharashtra government will be distributing Soil Health Cards to 20,000 farmers in 100 select villages as part of the Krishi Saptak initiative launched last year. Based on soil studies, the cards

A thermal power plant (TPP) is threatening to snuff out the 100-year-old livelihood of farmers in Maharashtra's Dahanu taluka. It is alleged that pollution from the unit has led to a steady decline

Women of Latur exemplify how people alone can put an end to their misery

The Maharashtra Energy Development Agency s meda publication meda News has now evolved into a full fledged quarterly magazine christened Future Energy . The periodical aims to provide a platform for articulation of developmental issues relating to rene

Millions of Indian villagers today act as guardians of forests, forming a mutually beneficial relationship, quite often without outside help. But it would be puerile to imagine that these communities would be able to tackle the crises arising in the realm

In the Indian context, the term deep sea has very little to do with depth. It refers to India s Exclusive Economic Zone: the 188 nautical miles of waters beyond the 12 mile territorial sea. Soon after the declaration of the Indian EEZ in 1976, there we

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