MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Monday ordered the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and the collector of Raigad to conduct an inquiry on the pollution problem near the new state-of-the-art jail in Taloja.
Hearing a petition filed by Malegaon blast accused, former army officer Major Ramesh Upadhyay (59), about pollution causing health problems for inmates, a division bench of Justice
MUMBAI: Environmentalists have urged union minister for environment Jairam Ramesh to ban sand mining across Maharashtra as a first to stop illegal sand mining and save the state's creeks and coastline.
MUMBAI: Mumbai's ignominious reputation as the state's malaria capital got cemented further as new figures revealed that the city registered nearly 55% of Maharashtra's 1.38 lakh positive cases in 2010-11, pushing it into the league of the country's worst affected states.
Nearly 80,000 cases in Greater Mumbai tested positive for malaria between April 2010 and March 2011, according to statistics
Builders Association of India (BAI) has welcomed the decision of ministry of environment and forests to lift the ban on sand mining in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra.
"The announcement made by Jairam Ramesh, Union minister for environment and forest, gives the construction industry a significant relief, which is bound to help in realising some of major infrastructure and housing projec
BEATING DRUMS and fireworks underline the jubilation in 45 villages of Raigad district in Maharashtra. The occasion: the denotification of the Maha Mumbai special economic zone (SEZ).
Hailing the Maharashtra government decision to do away with the Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone in Raigad and allowing farmers to utilise their land the way they wished, Janata Dal (United) president Sharad Yadav said here on Sunday that it was high time other SEZs floated in fertile areas were also scrapped.
MUMBAI: Taking the green crusade ahead, the Bombay high court has directed the Maharashtra government not to award any contract for sand mining or allow further excavation until and unless the agency concerned obtains an environmental clearance.
In a landmark order to check environmental damage caused by sand mining, the Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government not to award any con
MUMBAI: For the last eight years, conservationists from across the state have been visiting coastal belts to protect turtle nesting sites and release hatchlings into the sea.
Following the assessment report submitted by the expert panels, Maharashtra fisheries department has decided to claim the compensation of Rs8 crore towards the loss suffered by the fishermen due to the oil spill in the Arabian sea in the first week of August.
The compensation will be sought from the companies that own the ships collided.
Experts from Central Institute of Fisheries Education an
