Registration of healthcare facilities mandatory
These rules aim to make available a database of clinical establishments which are authorised to function and thereby improve public health quality by eliminating quacks The Union Ministry of public
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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Lavasa at night reveals two faces of development
A visit to the Lavasa Lake City project at night presents a disturbing sight, reflecting on the gross neglect of rural areas by the Maharashtra government. While the lake city is all lit up and basks in the glow of high-powered lights, seven villages surrounding the proposed township suffer silently in darkness. In existence well before the Lavasa project was even conceived, the villages of
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Maharashtra govt says all is well at Jaitapur
Amid boycott by dissenting voices, the open house on Jaitapur power project organised by the state government managed to project a happy picture of the nuclear plant. Almost all the participants supported the project. Most of the participants, including the project affected people, welcomed the project and asserted that people with vested interest were spreading misconceptions.
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No power cuts in Maharashtra from 2012: Governor
Claiming that Maharashtra is on its way to wipe out the electricity shortage and achieve self-sufficiency in power generation, governor K Sankarnarayanan today said the state will be free of load shedding by 2012. After hoisting the tricolour here on the Republic Day, he said, "I am sure that the state will become load-shedding free by 2012.
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Checking adulteration not our responsibility: Oil companies
While the government is still to take any action over the 2006 ASSOCHAM report, private companies say they cannot do much and regulating kerosene or stopping the adulteration is the government
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Maharashtra govt wakes up; starts fuel quality checks at pumps
Following Yashwant Sonawane
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Cost uncertainty dogs the Jaitapur nuclear project
Forget about the highly questionable technology for the proposed 1,650 megawatt nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district from the French power major Areva, or even the objections of the Finnish environmental watchdog body STUK for the Olkiluoto plant, which is being replicated at Jaitapur. The fact is that nothing can prevent time overruns and, therefore, cost escalation.
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Power from Jaitapur nuclear plant won't come cheap
The electricity generated from the proposed 9,900 MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) will be double, even triple the cost of electricity from coal- or gas-fired plants, according to a report. Depending on the cost of capital, the unit cost of electricity from Jaitapur would come to Rs5 to Rs8 per kilowatt per hour. The same unit from a thermal or gas operated plant costs Rs2 to 2.5 onl
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Warkaris take on new mission - oust nuclear power
After successfully stalling the project of Dow Chemicals in the state, the warkari community is now preparing for a bigger battle
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Pune man lights up Assam village
He is neither Shah Rukh Khan from Swades nor is he young or foreign-returned.