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Continue reading →: Dumpers caught in action at Dahisar CRZ-1
Forum Members got a call from an alert resident today the 12th of May 2013, a lazy Sunday afternoon, that dumpers were seen entering CRZ behind Prithvi Palace on the Link Road. Immediately some of us reached the scene and saw two empty dumpers and one full one. They had…
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Continue reading →: State wants to take over all vacant private forest land
State wants to take over all vacant
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Continue reading →: Mangroves get Special Cell protection
After years of relentless efforts to protect mangroves, running from one department to another, High courts to Supreme courts, citizens of Mumbai who have been fighting to save mangroves can heave a sigh of relief, albeit small. The Government, realizing the growing threats to mangroves in the city, and also…
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Continue reading →: Deadly Illegal structures
Thane civic body takes action, starts razing illegal structures ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate THANE/MUMBAI: Waking up after 75 people lost their lives; the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) began demolition of illegal structures. Additional municipal commissioner Shyam Sunder Patil said demolition of two adjoining buildings — a six-storey and a seven-storey building — had…
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Continue reading →: Air Pollution killing urban India
99% cities have critical level of air pollution ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate CPCB data shows 99 per cent of cities have critical level of particulate pollution NEW DATA SHOWS THAT SMALLER CITIES HAVE FOLLOWED THE FOOTPRINTS OF BIGGER CITIES WHEN IT COMES TO AIR POLLUTION NEW DELHI: India’s high economic growth has given…
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Continue reading →: Dry waste Sorting Centre
Corporator to demand dry waste sorting centre for each city ward ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate MUMBAI: Even as the civic body’s policy making it mandatory to segregate waste at source has received poor response, a resolution for creation of dry waste sorting centre in each ward is likely to be placed in the…
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Continue reading →: Lifestyle diseases
Lifestyle diseases claim more lives than infections in India ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate Experts demand more policies to promote healthy living This is from the Front Page headlines of Hindustan Times Newspaper today the 5th of March 2013 NEW DELHI: We have a killer lifestyle. Today, more Indians are dying of lifestyle diseases…
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Continue reading →: Environment Day Shock in Dahisar
Today as the World celebrated Environment day [2nd February 2013], some of us Forum members set out to enjoy the beautiful mangroves in Dahisar East. As we neared the mangroves, we were shocked to see a dumper truck coming out of the road leading into the mangroves! We made the…
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Continue reading →: Fake papers for Aadhaar cards
Two held for supplying fake papers for Aadhaar cards ZoomBookmarkSharePrintTranslate Hindustan Times 19th Jan 2013 MUMBAI: The MHB Colony police on Thursday arrested two people for their alleged involvement in a racket that supplied fake documents to help people get Aadhaar cards. The accused identified as brothers Suresh Maharana, 31,…
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Continue reading →: Uprooted slumdwellers fell trees to rebuild homes
Uprooted slumdwellers fell trees to rebuild homes Phase II Of Demolition Kept Under Wraps: BMC Linah Baliga TNN Mumbai: A day after the civic body demolished over a thousand illegal shanties at Ganpat Patil Nagar in Dahisar, slumdwellers had made preparations to reconstruct shanties by felling trees. TOI had captured images…
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