Mumbai: Deadlier than cancer, and called the silent killer, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) affects eight out of 100 people living in Mumbai and Thane district, said a city-based study

When the small and medium-scale industries relocated to Konkan from Nashik, Thane, Pune and Belapur, they were not prepared to incur losses.

People power triumphed over corporate callousness about 10 months ago in Thane.

Mumbai is India's most populated city with over 1.84 crore (18.4 million) people, followed closely by Delhi with 1.63 crore (16.3 million) and Kolkata with 1.41 crore (14.1 million), making these I

Enough is enough, civic bodies should not have unbridled power, the Bombay High Court said on Wednesday.

The Maharashtra government today told the Bombay High Court that it has no objection in providing land near sea to those fishermen who were rehabilitated farther from the seashore after setting up

The state government on Monday informed the Bombay High Court that illegal mining in the 2 km radius of the Taloja Jail has been stopped by it.

According to the Maharashtra government's own figures, 18,486 children in the age group of 0-6 years have died of malnutrition this year alone (Jan-August 2011).

In a rare case, and probably for the first time in the state, a municipal corporation admitted that radiations from mobile towers cause health hazards, especially among pregnant women and children.

The toxic gas leakage at Sequent Scientific Limited in the MIDC area of Boisar, which killed four persons on Tuesday evening, may have been caused by old, worn out pipes, workers alleged on Wednesd