The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
MUMBAI: Activist Medha Patkar will now take up the cudgels for railway stall operators who are upset with the Central Railway's ban on food items sold in plastic and metallic packets. The CR has already managed to get rid of food items packed in plastic wrappings from five stations. The …
MUMBAI: Six years after the Bombay High Court ordered a stop to the destruction of mangroves, Mumbai and its neighbouring areas now boast of more than 5,800 hectares of mangrove land designated as protected forests. According to environmental activists , even by conservative estimates, the move has ensured more than …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has informed the Bombay High Court that Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland are not providing them with quotations for vehicles containing Bharat Stage (BS) IV emission norms. The BMC has sought permission to continue using 211 vehicles like compactors and fire engines with BS III …
MUMBAI: Environmentalists who had come to place their grievances before the Coastal Zone Management Authority (CZMA) last week were in for a rude shock. Not only were they not given a hearing, but were also told that a decision has already been taken based on the collector's report. The CZMA …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday, in an important order, banned "non-forest activities" in mangrove areas along the state's coast. A division bench of Justice J N Patel and Justice B R Gavai ruled that its directive would hold irrespective of whether the government had notified a mangrove plot …
Mumbai The Bombay High Court on Wednesday said that no non-forest activity can be permitted in the areas where mangroves grow, even if such areas have not been yet declared as
Mumbai The Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG), which is battling for decongestion of city traffic through implementation of the Traffic Restraint Scheme, submitted in the court on Wednesday that the
Mumbai The Bombay High Court on Saturday observed that there should be restrictions on the number of new vehicles hitting the city roads as increasing the infrastructure is not a solution.
Traffic curbs suggested by the Bombay High Court to reduce congestion in Mumbai has been termed impractical by Maharashtra. On June 10, the court had asked the state to try out a traffic restraint scheme. It entailed private vehicles bearing registration numbers ending in particular digits are kept off the …
Traffic curbs suggested by the Bombay High Court to reduce congestion in Mumbai has been termed impractical by Maharashtra. On June 10, the court had asked the state to try out a traffic restraint scheme. It entailed private vehicles bearing registration numbers ending in particular digits are kept off the …
Easing traffic the Beijing way impractical for Mumbai says government traffic curbs suggested by the Bombay High Court to reduce congestion in Mumbai has been termed impractical by Maharashtra. On June 10, the court had asked the state to try out a traffic restraint scheme. It entailed private vehicles bearing …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday pushed for implementation of the Traffic Restraint Scheme (TRS) in the city, asking the government to try it out on an experimental basis in a very congested area for a month. The court also directed the government to get back to it in …
MUMBAI: Environmentalists are up in arms after the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) recently converted a pathway into a six-kilometre tarred road that cuts through 102 hectares of mangroves along Thane Creek. Greens fear that the pucca road will encourage trespassing into the mangrove zone and encroachment by builders. The …
