Elephanta caves: Re-carving the old magic
Working for over eight months at a stretch, the Wadars tibals arrive at Elephanta Island to recreate the old magic of the caves by breaking …
Brought back to life
Associate professor of anatomy at Mumbai Veterinary College, Santosh Gaikwad, is often called by forest departments, national parks and zoos …
Take a look at the last Warli village standing in Maharashtra
Walvanda is home to the indigenous Warli tribe, who still hold on to their beliefs, customs and language, despite the pressures of urbanisation. …
Climate change, tribal livelihood: Cinema meets environment at IFFI
Movies such as Taledanda, Koozhangal, Semkhor rise to the occasion to highlight a range of environmental issues staring at mankind …
Centre, Maharashtra play tag to ‘develop’ salt pans
Will Mumbai’s vast open expanse fall to realty? Not yet perhaps
Death by a thousand cuts
Kites may add colour to the sky but at the same time, they are fatal for birds that get caught in the strings and suffer severe injuries. As …
Live in Mumbai, work in Mumbai, but these workers can't vote in Mumbai
Ragpickers, DNT members and construction workers in India's financial capital don't possess the most powerful tool in democracy
Goa’s mining muddle: Dependants to protest in Delhi
The closure of iron ore mining in the state has rendered 2 lakh people jobless, increased banks’ non-performing assets and impacted state&…
'Advance IST by 30 minutes to help the North East'
Two time zones will create a divide between the North East and the rest of India, they say
Aarey's Chipko moment
The plan to clear Mumbai's last green cover is facing stiff resistance from citizens and non-profits
Waghoba: How the indigenous Warlis of western India find the Divine in big cats
The Warli worship of Waghoba and their co-existence with big cats is an example of what has been stated in recent years: Indigenous peoples are …
Maharashtra's cash-strapped cane growers to launch agitation
Sugarcane farmers warn of ‘halla bol’ agitation if properties of sugar mills defaulting on payments are not seized by January 28, 2019
20,000 drought-hit tribal farmers march to Mumbai
This is the third mass farmer protest the state has witnessed this year
Spirit of forest law being quashed in Gujarat
Petitioners approach Gujarat High Court over rejection of 1,13,000 claims out of the 1,82,000 individual claims from across the 13 districts
Elephanta Island gets too much development too fast
Getting power supply could have shaped the island’s future, but now the recent CRZ notification has put its existence at risk
Maharashtra govt's apathy derails Matheran’s clean and green prospects
The hill station struggles to keep plastic, motor vehicles and ropeway out of its confines
Street food in Mumbai, Ahmedabad 'safe to eat'
The respective state Food and Drug Administration confers ‘Clean Street Food Hub' tag on Mumbai’s Chowpatty and Ahmedabad’s …
Fire in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony a conspiracy, say activists
Environmentalists claim that the fire was used as a swift fix to the issue of cutting 2,702 trees for the Metro-3 car shed project
Fall Armyworm attack: Maharashtra grappling with the chaos
While the deadly pest has infested close to 15 districts of Maharashtra, many farmers lack any knowledge about it
Building norms bent for better ease of doing business rankings
The latest notification has eased green norms for builders to facilitate urban development
Struck by ‘swarm’ of tremors, Palghar’s woes keep escalating
Villagers in Maharashtra’s Palghar district claim repeat tremors, government apathy have left them in the lurch
Salt rush
Every year, marginal farmers from across the country travel to Mumbai's saltpans to earn some extra money
Maharashtra rejects more agri insurance claims even as farm suicides double
No data on suicides across India since 2015; number of claim rejections far exceeded number of cases approved in 2016-18
New CRZ rules clear coast for realtors, may trigger disaster
The government put the Indian coastline at risk by not hearing stakeholders and deciding to open it for real estate industry
Maharashtra’s indigenous Warlis teach a lesson about peaceful coexistence with leopards
Locals report multiple safe encounters with the wild cats in the region