Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Between April and June 2017, the school of health systems studies at TISS surveyed 375 tribal hutments with children aged under six, including 166 boys and 209 girls, in Vikramgad block of Palghar district. For young India,life-work balance new mantra,work-life balance passé: survey TISS study in Palghar on children under …
Olirum Erodu Foundation has teamed up with Annai Cauvery River Protection Trust to carry out remediation of environmental pollution in the Cauvery River. The two organisations have resolved to organise a ‘padayatra’ from Talacauvery on the Brahmagiri hill in Kodagu district, Karnataka, to Poompuhar in Tamil Nadu, on July 10 …
TISS survey throws up alarming results. While only six per cent surveyed schools in rural Maharashtra had some basic provision for assisting children with special needs in the toilets, of the 97.8 per cent schools that had toilets, just 62.2 per cent were functional at the time of survey, reveals …
Atleast 50 per cent households in every area in the M-East ward stay in average or inadequate housing conditions, the highest being in Mankhurd (63.76 per cent in average and 10.72 per cent in inadequate conditions), Vashi Naka (62.28 per cent in average and 2.14 per cent in inadequate) and …
Alang se palang” (from Alang to the deathbed) is a grim saying among workers at the ship breaking yard in Alang in Gujarat. This proved true for five workers who died in a gas explosion on June 28, sparking fresh concern on environmental and safety standards. The National Human Rights …
Hopes Rise For Better Quality Of Life Mumbai: Maharashtra’s urban population growth is slowing down. The latest Census 2011 figures show that in the 2001-2011 decade, the state urban population grew at 23.67% as against 34.57% in the 1991-2001 decade. Census officials attribute the declining growth rate to lower fertility …
Mumbai: In a sign that the government’s efforts to curb female foeticide may be bearing fruit in the city, Mumbai’s sex ratio at birth has inched up in comparison to the previous year. Sex ratio at birth is the number of girls born per 1,000 boys. According to the data …
Mumbai: If one goes by the survey conducted by citizens groups and NGOs, there are 227 errors in the existing land use (ELU) plan for two wards in the eastern suburbs M East and M West wards in Chembur. The plan was recently made public by the civic body. The …
Brazenly flouting environmental norms, hundreds of manufacturing units in Mumbai are operating illegally, without even the most basic “consent to operate” from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). While MPCB officials estimate that there are about 4,000 such illegal units operating in Mumbai’s industrial hubs, information obtained under the Right …
