THANE: After deciding to monitor noisy Dahi Handi celebrations, the city police have shifted their attention to loudspeakers at religious places in Thane, Kalyan, Dombivli and Mumbra.
While certain people appreciated the court order and subsequent police directive to keep the sound levels below 65 decibels, it has not gone down well with another segment.
THANE: The Thane police have deployed a flying squad for every three police stations to monitor decibel levels during Dahi Handi in the city and Kalyan, Dombivli, Bhiwandi and parts of Badlapur.
KALYAN: Many low-lying areas in Kalyan and beyond areas like Ulhasnagar, Badlapur and Bhiwandi have been flooded due to heavy rain for the last 36 hours.
Thane, Vasai and Vaitarna creeks are three of the 17 sites in Maharashtra that have been identified as “Important Coastal and Marine Biodiversity Areas (ICMBA)” by the Wildlife Institute of India (
More than a year after the state’s decision to notify all mangroves on public land as ‘reserved forests’, around 5,482 hectares of mangroves on government land in Thane and Raigad districts will be
An expert committee set up to ascertain whether the wetlands at Kopri in Thane have been reclaimed for an upcoming Special Economic Zone (SEZ) were denied entry to the area on three occasions.
