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Essential service workers waiting for a local train at Mumbai’s CSMT station on June 19, 2020.

Mumbai’s suburban trains to start services almost fully from January 29 with some restrictions

After nine months of operating with skeletal services, the Western and Central Railway has decided to resume almost 95 per cent of their local suburba

Names of caste-based localities such as Mumbai’s Kumbharwada may soon be a thing of the past. Kumbhars, or potters, are from the so-called lower castes.

Maharashtra government decides to rename localities with caste-based names

In a far-reaching initiative, Maharashtra plans to rename places having caste-based names.

Counting of votes under way for the Nagpur Division (Graduate seat) MLC election, on December 3, 2020.

Another test of unity lies in store for MVA in Maharashtra

The MVA’s strategy to meet the Maharashtra electorate as a single entity has been successful and the upcoming local body elections are yet another opp

Balasaheb Thorat, State Congress chief. He said his party would oppose any move to change the city’s name.

Shiv Sena's proposal to rename Aurangabad as Sambhaji Nagar gathers steam

The proposal has been in the offing for some time. Just into the second day of 2021, the Shiv Sena’s broadsheet,

Sumaira Abdulali of the Awaaz Foundation measuring air pollution levels caused by roadside burning of garbage along the Mumbai-Alibag road.

Maharashtra has the second-highest number of air pollution–related deaths in the country

With rural and semi-rural areas in the State lacking waste management programmes, the burning of mixed wastes is common. And an ICMR report released i

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray. (file photo)

Uddhav Thackeray rakes up Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute to mark January 17 ‘martyrs’ day’ anniversary

At a time when the Shiv Sena is pushing its old agenda of

Activists at an awareness generation programme against animal abuse, demanding a stronger and stricter Prevention of Cruelty to Animals laws. (file photo from 2016) Photo: K.V.S. Giri/The Hindu

Central government notifies draft of new law for more humane practices in animal husbandry

Branding without anaesthesia, throwing animals roughly to the ground and binding them with ropes prior to treatment, castration without anaesthesia, a

Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray. Photo: REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

Shiv Sena turns to Gujaratis in Mumbai with a foody slogan for the 2022 BMC election

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election in 2022 is expected to be a close fight with all political parties battling to get a majority in

Illegal sand mining in the river Somb, a tributary of the Yamuna, at Kanalsi village in Haryana.

SANDRP report points to increasing violence by illegal sand miners and calls for urgent need to regulate riverbed mining

SANDRP’s report on deaths caused by incidents relating to illegal sand mining and attacks on law enforcement agencies exposes the devastating impact o

The hillock that rose overnight at Badi-Hoidad village. Environmentalists attribute it to mining-stimulated tectonic activity.

Lignite mining triggers tremors in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat

Even as lignite mining operations in the seismically unstable region of Bhavnagar district in Gujarat cause mild tremors and sudden elevations in patc

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In the Girnar wildlife sanctuary in Junagadh, Gujarat, an Asiatic lion on a Palash (Flame of the Forest) tree, photographed by a forest guard in March.

Gujarat High Court gets tough on illegal mining in and around Girnar reserve forest, seeks report from Junagadh Collector by January 25

The reserved forest area of Girnar in Junagadh district of Gujarat has been under threat from illegal mining activities for many years. Now a public i

Uddhav Thackeray, Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief.

Shiv Sena questions credibility of Central government and warns of States breaking away similar to erstwhile USSR

Relations between the Centre and Maharashtra have been on a slow decline for a while. But, on December 27,

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