Kaustubh Kulkarni / Pune March 02, 2009, 0:40 IST

TOURISM: The Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation aims to replicate the factors that lead to rising flow of foreign tourists to neighbouring spots

India's recent phenomenal prosperity has taken everybody by surprise. The rolling out of ambitious programmes and its right implementation has leapfrogged India into the category of fast developing countries.

Maharashtra, Karnataka slug it out over six animals SIX wild elephants in Maharashtra have braved it all

Unlicensed firecracker factory did not observe safety rules SEVEN girls, mostly adolescents, working in a firecracker factory in Beed district of Maharashtra were killed and six others injured when the explosives kept on the premises caught fire causing an explosion. Eyewitnesses said the impact was so severe that the workers were blown apart. Their body parts were strewn in a

Excessive sand mining causes acute water scarcity in Marathwada Farmers of Wadwali village in Maharashtra are keeping a lookout for sand mining contractors who often come there to excavate the Godavari

MUMBAI: Cracking the whip on errant medical establishments, the Bombay high court on Thursday restrained the state from granting permission to new hospitals, nursing homes, clinics or pathological laboratories unless they have in place the mechanism to dispose of bio-medical waste.

Mumbai: To ensure better coordination and proper usage of dumping grounds in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the MMRDA would ask the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to conduct a study on these grounds.

MUMBAI: In a first case of its kind, the industries and development commissioner Malini Shankar has asked Raigad collector Nipun Vinayak to cancel the 13-year-old land transaction between Surya Industries and local farmers following failure of the unit to take off.