Sanjana Bhalerao

Thursday’s temperature surpassed last year’s highest maximum temperature for March. The highest maximum temperature recorded in March last year was on 17, at 37.5 degrees Celsius.

The mangrove cell said the reduction in sparse mangrove cover depicted a big conversion of sparse to dense mangrove. "Total increase in mangrove forest is found to be 48.79 sq km for all districts," read the report.

After nearly a decade, a new source has been identified as a contributor to air pollution in the city – road dust from Mumbai Metro’s construction activities, at 3.16 per cent.

An updated e-vehicles policy will be launched this year, which will include incentives and create infrastructure for private and public vehicles to make the transition to e-vehicles, said MPCB chairman Sudhir Srivastava in the town hall.

Vidya Athreya, a wildlife biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society with nearly two decades of experience, in an interview with Sanjana Bhalerao shares details of her new radio-collaring project in Sanjay Gandhi National Park, and the challenges in leopard conservation.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has instructed all wards to improve 'testing, tracing and treatment'. Between Friday and Saturday, BMC traced 7,099 high-risk contacts of Covid-19 patients. Most are under home isolation.

BJP MLA Ashish Shelar, in a tweet, alleged there has been an unfair distribution of development funds and Jadhav bagged a lion’s share of the funds. He further mocked, “Is BMC, Jadhav’s private limited company?”

Within a week, the total active cases in Dharavi have risen by 32, with its total active case tally at 51 as of Friday. According to the BMC, the locality has reported 4,041 cases since the inception of the Covid-19 outbreak.

In 2020-21, the civic body had estimated to collect Rs 6,768 crore in property tax, but the same was revised to Rs 4,500 crore.

Since the second week of February this year, cases have gradually been rising in Dharavi. Fearing an uncontrollable hike, the civic body started to dispatch mobile RT-PCR testing vans to pockets

This concept lays stress on the creation and use of permeable surfaces and green infrastructures. It aims to reduce the intensity of rainwater run-off by enhancing and distributing absorption capacities more evenly across targeted areas in the city.

Deep under the city, work is on on an ambitious infrastructure project that is set to change the face of the Mumbai coast — a 10-km stretch of the Coastal Road, which, with its undersea tunnel and road built on reclaimed land, is expected to help cut down on travel time in one of the most congested cities in the world.

Now, even after Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted, around 300 fishing boats and trawlers remain grounded.

The reinforced guidelines are also a precaution to prevent what several districts in Vidarbha are witnessing -- a sudden rise in infectivity.

Mavala, India’s biggest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), has been at work 20 metres – the height of a 5-storey building – under Priyadarshini Park at Nepean Sea Road for nearly a month.

On Tuesday, Maharashtra recorded 3,663 new Covid-19 cases with 461 fresh cases in Mumbai. At least 39 deaths due to Covid-19 have taken the toll to 51,591 deaths.

The proposed memorial complex will be spread over 1,19,130 sq feet and will have three new buildings and the existing Mayor's bungalow.

It will be a two-year project to understand how leopards use the landscape in and around the park. The study will help obtain scientific inputs for management of leopards.

The bird aviary within the zoo is expected to remain shut.

Thirteen fire engines, three fire tenders, 11 jumbo water tankers, and two ambulances were stationed at the site.

As the city gears up for civic polls next year, the Shiv Sena-led BMC made infrastructure projects a top priority by earmarking Rs 18750.99 crore, with an ambitious 28 per cent increase in capital expenditure.

BMC officials said there will be no steep rise in the budget allocation to the health department and their priority will be to focus on completing existing infrastructure projects.

The guidelines aim to improve coordination between various independent governments and civil societies responding to marine stranding, research and management and data sharing.

For the financial year of 2020-21 the BMC is staring at a shortfall of nearly Rs 11,000 crore, after failing to generate only Rs 11,616 crore as income from taxes, fees and premiums as against the revenue target of Rs 28,448 crore.