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Book review: Urgent need for conservation action to save India’s habitats

Comprehensive and thought-provoking essays dealing with the state of India’s wilderness and wildlife and the conservation strategies under way.

A white-rumped vulture at the Jatayu Breeding Centre in Pinjore, northern Haryana.

Researchers find that vultures in India are still in danger from the NSAID diclofenac

An investigation carried out from 2012 to 2017 by a team of international researchers finds that the drug, which is banned for veterinary use because

Captive-bred white-rumped vultures released into the wild in Haryana

Six of the released adult white-rumped vultures were hatched and reared as chicks at the Jatayu Centre while the other two vultures were guide birds w

A healthcare worker conducting swab tests at the Dadar station in Mumbai on December 3.
Photo: Emmanual Yogini

Wearing masks made mandatory in Maharashtra for six more months

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced on December 20 that wearing masks would be mandatory in the State for six more months although h

Work under way on a 9.98-km-stretch, between Marine Drive and the Bandra-Worli sea link, of the Mumbai coastal road.

Relocating corals off Mumbai for a coastal road project

The Maharashtra government relocates coral colonies on the Mumbai coast to begin work on the 29-kilometre-long road project, but green activists wonde

Children light firecrackers during Diwali, in Mumbai on November 14.

Green firecrackers may not be that green after all, finds a survey in Mumbai

Green firecrackers developed by CSIR have 30 per cent less emissions, but there is still a long way to go in reducing air and noise pollution.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the seaplane service to the Statue of Unity in Kevadia from the Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad on October 31.

Questions over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's seaplane ride

The recently launched seaplane service at the Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Gujarat, flouts the Centre’s Environment Impact Assessment notification 2006

A forest guard who was attacked while on patrol duty in Madhya Pradesh in August.

Attacks on foresters increase across the country during lockdown

Attacks on foresters by encroachers and the timber mafia have increased during the COVID-induced lockdown.

Outside the Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai, on October 12.

Maharashtra: Pandemic fatigue?

Even as the Maharashtra government is acutely aware that it will not be able to prevent large gatherings in the imminent festival season, understandin

Eknath Khadse addressing the media after resigning as Revenue Minister of Maharashtra followingr allegations of impropriety in a land deal, at the BJP office in Mumbai in April 2016.

Eknath Khadse, senior BJP leader in Maharashtra, joins the NCP

It has been a long time coming, but senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Eknath Khadse has finally taken the step of quitting his party and join

Prisoners being released on bail amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 virus at Yerawada Central Prison, Pune, on March 27.

COVID-19 spreads in Maharashtra’s prisons

As soon as prison authorities in Maharashtra realised that overcrowded jails would be a magnet for the COVID-19 virus, they took the unprecedented dec

At the promenade on Marine Drive in south Mumbai, on September 22.

South Mumbai housing societies see surge in COVID-19 cases

In September, when most of the restrictions of the lockdown were lifted, south Mumbai saw an alarming increase in COVID-19 cases. The war rooms of the

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