Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
Palghar will lose largest chunk of forests at 34.19 ha, followed by Dahanu at 29.05 hectares. Mumbai: More than 200 football fields equivalent forest land will be lost for Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train, since as many as 131.3 hectares of forest chunk is slated to be used for the ambitious project. …
The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission has allowed Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking to extend its existing 676.69 MW power purchase agreement with Tata Power for another 5 years. "Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has allowed Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) to extend its existing Power Purchase Agreement …
Nagpur: The city has recorded 27 deaths and 149 positive cases of swine flu (H1N1 virus) in 2018. The number of cases was the third highest annual figure in history. Data available with Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) shows 10 of the total 27 persons who died of swine flu were …
NAVI MUMBAI: Citing the slow progress in cases of environmental crime, particularly the destruction of mangroves, three ecology-focused groups have appealed to CM Devendra Fadnavis to set up a specialised green police. Recent days have seen a series of violations of Bombay high court orders and environmental and CRZ laws …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vishal Vaidya Vs State of Maharashtra dated 02/01/2019 regarding waste chemical of a factory being discharged on open land adversely affecting the public health at Malkapur, District Buldana, Maharashtra. NGT directs the District Magistrate Buldana and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board …
The city and its people will walk into 2019 staring at bigger challenges with regard to issues pertaining to the environment. The city will be dealing with ongoing threats like rapid reduction of green cover, rising air and noise pollution levels, increasing human-animal conflict and worsening conditions of the rivers. …
MUMBAI: After a chilly December, January is expected to begin on a warmer note as the weather bureau has forecast a ‘pleasant’ Monday with minimum temperature to be around 16°C and maximum around 32°C. Pollution levels too are expected to continue to remain in the moderate category. According to India …
PUNE: As many as 717 patients have succumbed to swine flu at various hospitals in Pune city ever since the virus first struck in 2009. However, the latest analysis of swine flu casualties in the city has revealed that 57% of these patients who succumbed to the virus-induced complications were …
The recharge of groundwater in 2018 was not highly appreciable as in more than 3,000 villages in the state, groundwater levels had dropped over 3 metres, or to the maximum depth. A team of experts at the city-based Groundwater Survey and Development Agency (GSDA) has submitted a detailed report on …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item published in “The Times of India” Authored by Vijay Pinjarkar Titled “String of new road projects in Maha to cut off tiger corridors” dated 20/12/2018 regarding new road projects being taken up in the State of Maharashtra which …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Vishal Arinjay Shah Vs Smita Pradeep Shah & Others dated 07/12/2018 regarding the construction activity being carried out at Vadgaon Budruk, Pune under the name Grand Horizon without obtaining prior environmental clearance. Supreme Court while setting aside the order …
Shortly after they were administered the vaccine, the children complained of headache and nausea and were kept under observation in a hospital. They were discharged on Tuesday evening. Seven children between 10 and 13 years of age fell ill after being administered the measles-rubella vaccine at the S S Agarwal …
Last year in November, Ganeshwadi, a hamlet of Kolam tribals in Maharastra’s Yavatmal, was the first in the district to get water supply through tankers. This year, the village doesn’t need tankers — it has enough water to last this season and next summer. What made this possible was a …
The Devendra Fadnavis government has got the state’s richest religious body, the Shirdi Saibaba Trust, to give it an interest-free loan of Rs 500 crore without any repayment schedule, according to sources here. The funds will he lent to the Godawari-Marathwada Irrigation Development Corporation that has undertaken an irrigation project …
This paper attempts to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers’ income and investigates the determinants of participation in CF. This is based on a survey of 1,331 farmers from Maharashtra State in India engaged in onion, okra and pomegranate cultivation. The study, using 2Stage Least Squares method …
A Pune-based petitioner has filed an application before the principal bench of National Green Tribunal in New Delhi challenging the Environment Ministry’s recent notification easing environmental norms for realtors. The November 14 notification, issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF& CC) empowers local bodies like the …
The measles-rubella vaccination drive is seeing mixed results. While the state met its daily target of vaccinating 10 lakh children on the first day, Muslim-dominated pockets in Thane recorded just 5% vaccination. In Mumbai, the vaccination drive achieved nearly 70% coverage in the first two days. Thane health officials said …
The government on Wednesday said in the assembly it was contemplating financial aid of Rs 15 lakh instead of Rs 10 lakh for the kin of people killed by tigers. Forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar made known the plan in reply to a debate on the shooting of tigress Avni, said …
MUMBAI: A no-honking public awareness event was held across 10 junctions in Mumbai, from Churchgate to Borivali, on Sunday. It saw people from all age groups and from all walks of life come together and educate riders and drivers at signals. A team of more than 300 volunteers stood at …
Mazgaon recorded the loudest noise during the Eid-e-Milad celebrations on Wednesday this year, however going by the statistics of the past several years, the noise levels continued their downward trend. Anti-noise pollution crusader and convenor of Awaaz Foundation Sumaira Abdulali took the noise levels. While the minimum noise level recorded …
