Intermittent fires at Deonar and Mulund dumping grounds over the last few years have attracted national attention. The central government, too, had raised concerns over the matter.

The herbivores in the park generally prefer to eat leguminous plants, grasses and herbs. Through this programme, park authorities aim to reduce the growth of the weed and allow the edible grasses for herbivores to thrive.

Operating on a land, leased out by Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT), the amusement park was slated for closure within a few days.

According to the police, in February, the crew of M T Farzana said they collected 60 tonnes of sludge oil from the merchant vessel Tag- 5.

The accused had claimed in court that they did not know each other and were not involved in the offences of copyright infringement, cheating and forgery, as claimed by the HUL.

In 2018, Dr Prakash Sonkamble filed a petition challenging the non-inclusion of his name in the category of an “in-service diploma candidate in the Selection State Merit List”, published on April 26 and May 6, 2018 by the state government.

Maharashtra Nationalist Congress Party president Jayant Patil (56) has taken up the challenge to build the organisation and give it a new identity ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha and assembly elections. In an interview to Shubhangi Khapre, he reveals the party’s plans.

The owners were arrested after a BMC report stated that they were negligent about structural changes that led to customers at the bars being unable to escape when the fire broke out.

Accusing BJP of misusing power, Sena MP Sanjay Raut said Yeddyurappa’s resignation is the start of the end of “dictatorship and high-handedness”.

Under the scheme, called ‘Gaal Mukta Dharan, Gaal Yukta Shivar’, the state government has decided to desilt all the dams across the state to create additional water holding capacity.

Diabetes and hypertension accounted for 46 per cent of the complaints received at the four tertiary care hospitals in Mumbai between October 2015 and September 2017, according to the data collected in the study.

At an event to create awareness about obesity at Swatantra Veer Savarkar Bhavan here, Darade said they will hold discussions with stakeholders on the issue in the coming days. 

Shunya House is the only entry from India into the Solar Decathlon 2018 — a collegiate competition by the US Department of Energy and China National Energy Administration, where 10 contests would challenge student teams to design and build full-size solar-powered houses.  

Now in its fifth edition, Curiosity Circle is a culmination of the ideas expressed at the ‘March for Science’ held last year when members of the scientific community protested against the fund cuts imposed on research and what they said the overall decline of scientific temperament.

“On May 15, the girl was playing outside her building when the accused asked her to accompany him. He then allegedly took her to a secluded spot and raped her,” the officer said.

The bridges, made by the Army within four months and inaugurated on February 27 by Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, were built at a cost of Rs 18 crore.

Justice Mridula Bhatkar, in her order, said that while an area of 5,000 sq ft should be earmarked for the tenants only for the purpose of drying clothes, the landlord will be in possession of the entire plot.

Sources said that the agency has alleged that Amit Upadhyaya of Horizon Outsource Solutions Private Limited has wrongly taken GST credit of Rs 80 crore from the government by showing fake invoices of software services received from Asad Anwar Sayed of Best Computer Solutions Private Limited since July 2017.

Police said resident doctors Shalmali Dharmadhikari (24) Atish Parikh (32) were attacked by Zahira’s relatives after she died on Friday. The incident allegedly took place after the relatives complained that the patient was not being taken care of.

The petition alleged that Wockhardt is illegally running the hospital on the plot without the permission of NIT, though the plot was to be used for promoting Hindi as per the conditions of lease allotment.

The court issued the warrants against Gujarat policeman Mukesh Parmar, Rajasthan policemen Himanshu Singh Rawat and Shyam Singh Charan, and another accused Rajendra Jirawala.

The MMRC claimed that its monsoon preparedness and disaster management plans were chalked out under the guidance of the civic body.

A small parcel of a land owned by the Navy in Colaba, and another small portion owned by the Air Force in Santacruz, fall in the alignment of the Metro corridor.

The construction of both lines of the corridor on the same side will affect eight residential societies, housing at least 3,000 residents with MMRDA also acquiring some portions of their open land.