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 …
At a time when tigers are crying for inviolate spaces - and forestry concepts are changing in the advent of climate change and carbon credits- demand for 63,000 hectare (630 sq km) reserve forest area by the Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra (FDCM), a wholly state government owned company engaged …
Pune, home to an H1N1 outbreak in 2009, is battling a fresh one with 232 found positive since January. The virus has killed 35 in the Pune municipal region this year, including some from rural areas on the outskirts treated in the city, but excluding 13 who died in Pimpri-Chinchwad. …
With the central government's team expected to arrive for inspection this week, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT), state public works department (PWD) and zillaparishad (ZP) have completed their inspection and estimated the damage to roads in the district at around Rs 170crore. According to the district …
In 2006, 1,114 tigers roamed the country's forests. In 2010, that number rose to 1,706. Come 2014, will Waghpurians and other tiger lovers across the country have a reason to rejoice? Or will deforestation and poaching have cast their ugly shadow over the big cats' population? We'll have to wait …
Six people were feared drowned after incessant rains lashed the city on Wednesday. The city has been experiencing heavy rains for the last two days. The city received 101.4mm rainfall between 8.30am and 8.30pm on Wednesday. Of this, 73.1mm rainfall between 5.30pm and 8.30pm threw life out of gear in …
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is all set to announce a CBI inquiry into tiger poaching cases unearthed in Vidarbha between October 2012 and May 2013. Gang of organized tiger poachers arrested in June first week by the forest and police officials in Mansar near Nagpur have confessed that their separate …
Data compiled by the divisional commissionerate during the preliminary survey to assess the damage caused by recent floods indicates that more than 20% of the crop land in Nagpur division has been damaged. In absolute terms the affected area is 4.09 lakh hectare, or equivalent to 20 times the city's …
NAGPUR: With 46 tiger deaths in just 7 months this year in the country, most of them due to poaching and several shrouded in mystery, the Global Tiger Day on Monday will be celebrated under a dark shadow. Looking at the startling revelations by organized tiger poachers, arrested recently near …
Maharashtra govt has granted Prospecting Licence to the company for 11 blocks spread over 597 hectares State-run manganese ore producer MOIL Ltd today said the Prospecting Licence for 11 blocks in Maharashtra that it has received from the state government would go a long way in augmenting the production of …
Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority (MWRRA), for the first time, is planning to prepare action plan and policies for effective implementation of water bodies' conservation. As a part of its initiative, the regulator organized a workshop on rejuvenation of lakes and rivers of city in association with the Nagpur Municipal …
Two persons were killed since yesterday as heavy rains lashed the city and adjoining areas. Two bodies were found, one each in Besa Beltarodi and another one in adjoining area this morning, police said. Nagpur city received more than 180 mm rains during last 24 hours till 8-30 am today …
It Has Led To Several Man-Animal Conflicts And Forest Fragmentation Pune: Around 72,463 hectares of forest land in the state has been encroached upon, that has led to several man-animal conflicts over the last few years and also forest fragmentation. Latest data from the forest department reveals that these encroachments …
Tiger poaching in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra seems to be on unabated going by the statements of two young poachers who were nabbed on June 6. The two have told officials that they and some other gangs have killed five tigers in the region in the past three months. Meanwhile, …
Nagpur Municipal Corporation ( NMC) and Orange City Water (OCW) have jointly started changing of pipelines in Ayodhya Nagar prabhag under Sakkardara ESR command area for implementation of ambitious uninterrupted (24X7) water supply project on Tuesday. In Sakkardara ESR command area, NMC-OCW replacing almost 16 km pipeline using HDPE (High …
Govt has spent about Rs 6,073 cr and would require an estimate of another Rs 7,665 cr to finish the project The inter-district Gosikhurd irrigation project here which was launched 25 years ago, has become a saga of neglect and disappointment for people in Vidarbha region, since its still lying …
The Nagpur municipal corporation's (NMC) claims about being role model in water supply seem pretty tall. The civic body has no idea where 400 million litres per day (MLD) out of 652 MLD supplied to the city goes, even after spending around 800 crore under central government's JNNURM. The shocking …
Over 13 lakh trees have been illegally cut in state-owned forests since 2005, depriving Maharashtra of its precious forest wealth. The number of felled trees could be a miniscule fraction of the total tree strength in the state's forests, it is a worrisome drop nonetheless, say forest officials and activists. …
RKMital, member secretary of Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), will issue directives to authorities of Khaparkheda power plant to reduce pollution in the premises. Mital inspected the area on Wednesday afternoon to find reasons for fly-ash leak in Kanhan river in January, which had been repeatedly highlighted by TOI. Mital …
The State has four major tiger reserves, six national parks and 36 wildlife sanctuaries, which adds up to 15,732 sq km. MUMBAI, APRIL 11: For the long-term sustenance of forests across Maharashtra, the State government has decided to adopt the eco-tourism model that has been implemented in the Tadoba-Andhari tiger …
In a bid to curb manipulations and expedite cases, the state forest department is gearing up to accept proposals online for forest land diversion under the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) 1980. State nodal officer & additional principal chief conservator of forests (APCCF) Suresh Gairola did not respond to the calls …
