Sanjay Jog / Mumbai January 6, 2010, 0:57 IST

Mukesh Ambani and Anand Jain promoted Mumbai SEZ Ltd has suspended, for an indifinite period, its land acquisition for the MahaMumbai special economic zone (SEZ) in coastal Raigad. The company may drop the project altogether, as it was not able to acquire

Mumbai: Kiran TareMukesh Ambani's Reliance has sacked 1,200 of the 1,600 employees from its proposed Special Economic Zones
(SEZ) in Raigad district. It, anti-SEZ activists say, signals that Reliance is winding up the project.

Mumbai: Cyclone Phyan, which passed along the Mumbai and Konkan coasts, claimed four lives on Wednesday and caused massive damage to property in the coastal districts of Ratnagiri, Raigad, Sindhudurg, Thane and Palghar in Maharashtra.

NAVI MUMBAI: Human development at Uran taluka in Raigad district is hurting quite a few of its original inhabitants. While quarrying had already disturbed quite a few species, environmentalists are concerned that landfills are uprooting many others from their home.

Meena Menon

DIV VILLAGE (RAIGAD DISTRICT): Speakers at the first public audit of special economic zones (SEZs) in Maharashtra raised trenchant questions on the constitutional validity of the law permitting these zones, and called for dislodging the government that was promoting such illegalities.

This report is in two parts. The first part is the summary report which gives a brief introduction to the SEZs under scrutiny in the Maharashtra People

Mumbai After taking a decision to construct two dams to quench the thirst of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region(MMR), the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is now planning to construct three more dams in Thane and Raigad.

According to Metropolitan Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad, the infrastructure agency is planning to construct three dams on Kalu, Susri and Pinjar rivers.

Mumbai New dams will come up in Thane and Raigad to help ease the water problems in Mumbai

The Supreme Court

With a clear eye on the October 2009 Maharashtra Assembly poll, the Congress-led Democratic Front (DF) Government on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious Rs 5,232 crore development package for the backward Konkan region.

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