MUMBAI, Aug. 17 -- Industrial sheds, schools, colleges and hostels for educational institutions will no longer benefit from an exemption from obtaining environmental clearances under the Environment I... Read More
MUMBAI, Aug. 17 -- The state is chalking out a new forest conservation policy that will allow the government to lease private agricultural land for tree plantation, thereby increasing forest cover fro... Read More
MUMBAI, Aug. 17 -- The state government has decided to amend the Maharashtra Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Rules, 1997, and set up a taskforce in 36 districts to draw up a comprehensive ac... Read More
MUMBAI, Aug. 17 -- Despite heavy rains, Dahi Handi festivities on Saturday saw large turnouts across the city and Thane, but also left two people dead and 95 injured, including two in critical conditi... Read More
Kolkata, Aug. 17 -- At 10.44pm on Independence Day it became clear that Sunil Chhetri will not figure in Khalid Jamil's plans for the CAFA Nations Cup, the new India head coach's first assignment begi... Read More
MUMBAI, Aug. 16 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is conducting a money laundering probe into the construction of 41 illegal, now-demolished buildings in Vasai East, has found that former VVC... Read More
MUMBAI, Aug. 16 -- In a notice issued on August 14, the state government included 29 villages of Palghar district in the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC). The districts, which were a par... Read More
Mumbai, Aug. 16 -- The Central Railway (CR) recently came up an elaborate plan to install 1,650 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras along railway lines, to keep surveillance on tracks, train-park... Read More
MUMBAI, Aug. 16 -- The Bombay high court on Thursday reprimanded a section of residents of the Jaku Club slum pocket in Santacruz East for blocking the redevelopment of their settlement for nearly fou... Read More
Mumbai, Aug. 16 -- The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has proposed new rail corridors along the existing lines on the Kalyan-Kasara and Kalyan-Karjat corridors to segregate Mumbai's suburban rai... Read More