Mumbai: In what may be an outcome of the diminishing forest cover in the city, a group of animal lovers last week rescued an injured four-horned antelope at a busy street of Ulhasnagar and brought it to the Bombay Society of Prevention against Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA) for treatment.

Pune: Pune-Based entrepreneur Rajiv Devkar seems to have hit the jackpot in his quest to preserve mangoes without the use of cold storage facilities. Devkar experimented with honey, a natural preservative as an alternative, putting two alphonso mangoes in a jar of honey in May and found them well-preserved in December.

Mulund: The octroi department of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has planned to cut down 230 full-grown trees as part of a beautification project and for extension of the yard near Hari Om Nagar in Mulund east. The process of felling has already begun and almost the entire green stretch of trees next to the highway police chowky has been razed.

Mumbai: Over 25 trees have been felled recently on a land owned by Airport Authority of India (AAI). Residents fear that sooner or later, this plot of land, a green zone, will be encroached by slum dwellers.

Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party MLC from Thane Jitendra Avhad could be penalised by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) under its cleanliness and sanitation bylaws 2006.

Ashish Shelar, BJP corporator of Mumbai, demanded that Avhad be punished as per the civic body's rule as he dumped a truckload of garbage at a public road near the BMC headquarters.

MUMBAI: Bloomberg Philanthropies announced four recipients of the 2009 Bloomberg Awards for Global Tobacco Control at the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health held here on Monday.

Mumbai: Even as the railways grapple to complete the Phase-I of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP), work for the Phase-II has already got underway. This phase involves laying of the fifth and sixth lines between Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CSTM) and Kurla, as well as Thane and Diva and the sixth line between Borivali and Mumbai Central.

Mumbai: Recession teaches even the richest some valuable lessons. The cash-rich Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA), which even lends to the state government for loan waivers to farmers, has been forced to rethink its original plan to construct a totally underground Metro line (Metro-III) between Colaba and Bandra.

Mumbai: In a few months from now, IIT Bombay's vehicles like buses, cars and ambulances could well be run by using fuel produced from the first campus bio-diesel plant in India -- installed by students of the institute's chemical engineering department.

Raghavendra Kamath / Mumbai March 10, 2009, 0:39 IST

Developer to bid for work from those who win the final contract.

Mumbai-based property developer Housing Development Infrastructure (HDIL) says it has pulled out of the Rs 15,000 crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) because the latter doesn