Lanco has received 2-year extension of environment clearance validity, with certain conditions, for its 1,320 MW thermal power plant in Maharashtra. After detailed deliberations, the Environment Ministry
School-based health programmes are widely used to improve the health and nutrition of schoolchildren in developed countries. However, little effort has been made in developing countries to provide preventive
<p>It was once associated with the rich and urban. Today, hypertension is fast spreading in rural India. This is a cause for concern because hypertension, if not checked, can lead to heart and kidney diseases. Healthcare facilities are already poor in villages, where nearly three-fourths of Indians live.
Congress unhappy with Bill that seeks to divert water meant for agriculture The hasty passing of The Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (amendment) Bill, 2011 late last Wednesday in the State assembly has given rise to fresh animosity between the ruling coalition partners, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). On Monday, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committ
To Address Growing Energy Need With Forests Security THE group of ministers set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday will attempt to resolve a year of inconclusive discussions and efforts by the coal ministry to push through a liberal policy for diversion of forest land.
Vidarbha is green again, the rains have finally come, and at least at this point of time, seem to have come to stay their entire term, unlike the previous years when the it simply disappeared after giving us a false hopes of a normal monsoon. Here the article takes a look at the scene as it stands in the month of July with fairly good rains making the region appear like a paradise of green.
WITH the environment ministry playing the obstructionist by classifying 30% of the area in nine coal fields as
Mumbai: In a scathing criticism of the Maharashtra government, the chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Brijeshwar Singh, has said that the state is nowhere as keen as its neighbour, Andhra Pradesh, to construct more national highways. He spoke to DNA on the sidelines of a NHAI meeting with investors in the city on Wednesday.
The Maharashtra government is looking out for an independent agency to evaluate the implementation of the Prime Minister
THE Manmohan Singh government appears to be in a bind over increasing electricity generation capacity and protecting the environment.
The spate of farmer suicides in Vidarbha has been callously disregarded. (Editorial)
