Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
RAMPANT ILLEGAL harvesting and trade in a wild plant endemic to the Western Ghats called narakya (Mappia foetida), which has anti-cancer properties, has made it an endangered species. The tree is being exploited clandestinely in the domestic market and also shipped abroad. The profit potential is enormous, as the alkaloid …
The protest march by villagers against the Sahyadri Tiger Project took an ugly turn on Monday evening when angry villagers pelted stones on the forest department (wildlife) office in Patan in Satara district. The villagers were agitating against the Sahyadri Tiger Project, which was initiated last year by combining the …
A new World Bank Report says decentralizing power generation and distribution to the local level through the distribution grid of the state utility by using renewable energy sources will help reduce prolonged outages and increase electricity supply in rural areas. If such sources replace kerosene and diesel for localized generation …
The World Bank in conjunction with the Small Industries Development Bank of India and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) is implementing an initiative on financing energy efficiency in MSME industrial clusters to improve energy efficiency and reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from MSMEs, utilising increased commercial financing. The …
Kolhapur civic administration has taken up many ambitious projects, thanks to the initiatives by Vijay Singhal, municipal commissioner. He recently received an award from the Prime Minister for the river-linking project he had taken up during his stint at Jalgaon Correspondent Moving fast on the growth track, Kolhapur has come …
Mumbai: When 65-year-old author Vineet Madhavan (name changed) recently underwent a liver function test, the doctors suspected something amiss. A few more tests confirmed that Madhavan had contracted hepatitis C. The only reason Madhavan could think of for contracting the disease was a visit to the dentist. An elderly woman …
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 …
Mumbai: The state government has launched an innovative green scheme to encourage villagers to pay tax. According to Jayant Patil, minister for rural welfare,
Kolhapur: As many as 26 fishermen from the coastal district of Sindhudurg, along with eight boats, are missing in the Arabian Sea after Wednesday's Cyclone Phyan. Official sources confirmed that around 289 boats have been damaged in the storm while over 2,020 fishing nets of several fishermen are reported missing …
Mumbai Leopards have always existed peacefully around human habitation, but in regions where they were repeatedly pushed back to the forest, animal-human conflicts have inevitably increased, says a study on human-leopard conflict called Project Waghoba carried out by a Pune-based NGO Kaati group. The NGO has carried out the study …
University bans field trials THE Maharashtra agriculture university announced it would no longer allow field trials of GM food crops in its field at Kolhapur. The move came in the wake of a protest in March by hundreds of farmers and citizens against an open-air field test of GM corn …
Beneficial and cost effective, says cooperative that introduced feed a milk cooperative in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, has bagged a patent on one of its products that cuts the cost of calf rearing by half. The cooperative, popularly called Gokul, after its brand of milk products, has launched two calf-rearing products: …
VIVEK WAGHMODE KOLHAPUR, APRIL 20 CONGRESS star campaigner Rahul Gandhi has assured people of Sangli that water would be provided to drought-prone talukas in the district if the UPA returns to power. He was addressing an election rally on Sunday for candidate Prateek Patil. Over 5,000 people braved the sun …
Hubbardia Bor, a monospecific, critically endangered and endemic genus on the verge of extinction has been reintroduced and successfully restored in its natural home, the Western Ghats.
Pune MPKV farm is one of three such sites in India The Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV) said it has decided to stop genetically modified (GM) crop trials for corn at its fields in Kolhapur. The trails began in December 2008 and MPKV land in Kolhapur was one of the …
DODAMARG & SAWANTWADI: On the back of the recent border row between Maharashtra and Karnataka over Belgaum, here comes a territorial dispute of another sort. The Maharashtra Forest Department is in a bind over what to do with three elephants that strayed over from neighbouring Karnataka and caused havoc in …
Be it health, water, cleanliness or alcohol consumption, villages in rural Maharashtra are witnessing a silent movement in the last few years, thanks to the women sarpanches at the helm.
