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 …
The wild life officials of the forest department on Tuesday morning finally trapped a wild cat that was on the prowl inside the city limits of Thane. The cat had been sighted on several occasions at Kolshet recently. According to the officials, the panther was trapped at a factory near …
If the state power utility accepts the proposal submitted by consumer associations to tide over the power crisis, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Pune areas will get uninterrupted electricity on three working days. Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) had tied up with consumer organisations and the Tata Power Trading …
The present investigation involves the analysis of water of Ulhas river of Ulhasnagar city located in Thane district. In recent years there is environmental degradation due to pollution and population of Ulhasnagar city.
At times when political leaders from Thane are fighting over garbage dumping by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at Mulund, all of them seem to have ignored the fact that their own city, Thane, does not have its own dumping ground since the last four years. Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) officials …
Property deals are being registered at sub-registrar's office in Thane At least 10 flats in Garden Estate in Thane have changed hands, with official sanction in the form of registration of the sale, in gross violation of a Supreme Court order to maintain status quo on private forest land. All …
Mumbai, July 20 MoU signed between Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran and Singapore agency for water management Water woes are likely to end at Ambernath as the Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP), which supplies water to the town, is likely to start 24-hour water supply. This comes into effect after the MJP signed …
The Central Government-appointed Community Based Monitoring (CBM) Project under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has come out with a preliminary report on the functioning of health care infrastructure in rural Thane. CBM project is a key to acquiring health rights for the rural population. It was started in April …
The much-publicised housing project for the poor under the Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP) projects is coming up in Thane city. The twin projects involve the construction of several ground plus seven to eight storey buildings to house around 850 families in the city as well as from Kausa …
WHILE the THANE municipal corporation is yet to complete the pre-monsoon repair and cleaning work, the news from an agricultural college that Thane may get over 100 per cent rainfall this year, would increase the woes of Thanekars. According to sources, a Pune-based agricultural college has carried out a study …
This research paper presents the monitoring results of heavy metal pollution across seven sampling stations in Vasai region located on the western coast of India.
In a move aimed at giving great relief to the residents of Thane and Navi Mumbai circles including Bhandup, Mulund, Kanjurmarg besides Kalva from power cuts, the Bhandup zone of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDC) has mooted zero load shedding for the city and its suburb. Maharashtra Electricity …
The national rural employment guarantee scheme completes two years and moves to cover all the districts in the country. Has it been worth it? The plateau above Mokhada is a denuded forest, an ecological disaster. This taluka in the Thane district bordering Gujarat was once a lush forest. Now there …
WITH the advent of the monsoon around the corner, Thane Municipal Corporation has undertaken a slew of measures to brace up for the likely deluge. The TMC has been granted permission by the district authorities in view of the model code of conduct in the wake of the by polls …
There is every possibility that the Thane-Belapur industrial zone could become the state's first special economic zone (SEZ). The state government has appointed Pricewaterhousecoopers as consultants to explore the establishment of an SEZ in the belt. While the government is hardselling Dronagiri in Navi Mumbai as its first-ever SEZ, sources …
Research project undertaken by the students of Saraswati School about variety of species in Thane creek has revealed that 19 varieties of fish have disappeared from Thane creek. The project informs that previously there were 19 fish varieties seen in Thane creek. Rawas, Pakat, Hekru, Karkara, Makul, Jitad, prawns (Kolambi), …
Six forest officials, including Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) V P Patil and Range Forest Officer (RFO) Sanjay Darade were allegedly assaulted by devotees of an ashram in Tungareshwar sanctuary on Wednesday afternoon. "The forest officials learnt that the devotees had domesticated a few peacocks in the vicinity of the …
A month after the Bombay high court order which declared all houses on private forest land as illegal, embattled chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Wednesday stepped in to protect the estimated one lakh flats of 'innocent' persons on forest lands in the suburbs, especially in the Powai-Bhandup-Mulund-Thane-Kandivli-Borivli belt covering about …
The BMC has decided to put its foot down in the issue between Mumbai and Thane over water supply. At a meeting between the two municipal corporations and state Water Supply and Sanitation department on Wednesday, the BMC officials will state that that using Mumbai's conveyance system for supplying 100 …
