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Continue reading →: No Beer Bars or Hookah Parlors please
Residents can oppose beer bar in area: HC Shibu Thomas TNN Mumbai: The Bombay high court, in a landmark judgment, has said local residents have a right to oppose a beer bar coming up in their neigbourhood. Observing that the fundamental right to live a “decent” life and ensure the…
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Continue reading →: Agricultural land scam, there goes our green [almost]
Another Scam in Dombivli, MLA’s and Chota Rajan erects 1500 Buildings in Agricultural Land. Mumbai. 20.June, 2012. Recent developments in a shocking construction scam have revealed that for all of CM Prithviraj Chavan’s efforts to wield a fist of iron with realtors, the politician-builder-underworld network continues to flourish and plunder…
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Continue reading →: Illegal encroachments surge in IC colony
Illegal encroachments surge in IC colony Afternoon Dispatch and Courier Tuesday, May 03, 2011 By Adnan Attarwala Ganpat Patil Nagar in IC colony is witness to a steady rise in illegal encroachments by slum dwellers, who have built up prosperous businesses in these slums Besides increasing illegal encroachment by the…
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Continue reading →: Drive along the sea!
35-km coastal freeway proposal sent to MoEF Clara Lewis TNN Times of India 2012 Apr 28thMumbai: Perhaps as a parting gift to municipal commissioner Subodh Kumar, the chief minister’s office has forwarded his Rs 8,000 crore, 35.6-km coastal road proposal to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF). Kumar,who…
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Continue reading →: More mangroves!
More mangroves may cover our mudflats Gorai, Vashi & Vasai among Areas In Mumbai Region That Could Benefit From State Proposal To Boost Coastal Buffers Sukhada Tatke | TNN 21st April 2012 Tmes of India The Mumbai region – including Mumbai, Thane and parts of Raigad — can look…
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Continue reading →: Mangroves, salt pans or sunken housing?
Destroy saltpans, invite floods: Greens Sukhada Tatke | TNN Concerted efforts to open up the city’s saltpan lands for “affordable housing” have environmentalists deeply concerned. A huge section of natural resources faces the risk of destruction, they warn. Early last year, an expert panel formed by the Mumbai Transformation Support…
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Continue reading →: Victory for New Link Road Forum and others
Locals go green: Some battles won, others lost Times of India 6th April 2012 WON Lokhandwala eco-warriors Recently, residents of Lokhandwala and Oshiwara saved a verdant patch of
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Continue reading →: Poor Powai?
SC takes Hiranandani to task Upholds HC Order Barring Powai Construction TIMES NEWS NETWORK 31st March 2012 A lesson for all greedy Builders and Government officials: New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to dilute the Bombay high court order that stopped Hiranandani Developers from carrying out further…
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Continue reading →: Corruption in BMC
Civic engineer gets 2 years in jail for graft S Ahmed Ali TNN Mumbai: Civic executive engineer (T ward) Rajendra Phadnis, who was caught by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 in 2009, was sentenced to two years in prison. Sessions court special judge V A Daulatabad…






