Govt Must Form A Team Of Docs To Advise Tribunal: Report

The state-appointed three-member expert committee on endosulfan issue has recommended constitution of a single-member tribunal and relief fund for endosulfan victims in Kasaragod.

Mumbai: A mega slum rehabilitation scheme in one of Mumbai’s poshest neighbour

Water Supply and Drainage Minister Dinesh Gunawardene and Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development Minister Douglas Devananda jointly inaugurated the rehabilitation of the Kilinochch

This guide by International Rivers explains the sanctioning of dams in India and points to vital issues of public interest including poor and inadequate policies, lack of consultation with affected communities and the disastrous environmental consequences.

Manual Scavenger means a person engaged or employed on regular or frequent basis by an individual or a local authority or a public or private agency, for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or pit into which human excreta from insanitary latrin

Mumbai may finally get its new airport now as a panel of the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has given the ‘green signal’ for the multi-billion rupee project.

1,166 farmers committed suicide in financial year 2012-13

The Maharashtra government has officially admitted to a rising farm suicide rate that saw, on an average, more than three farmers taking their own lives every day in the financial year 2012-13.

Mumbai : Eight years after a deluge claimed 450 lives in the city in 2005, the ambitious revival of the choked Mithi river to check floods is far from complete.

The coal ministry has decided to allocate 17 blocks for mining last week.

The state cabinet has cleared four low-cost housing schemes under the Mukhyamantri Aavas Samruddhi Yojana for the lower income group (LIG), the middle income group (MIG) and the urban poor.

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