

Thursday 17 September '09
If you wish to see a flower garden or a herbarium in Maharashtra Nature Park at Mahim, you have a chance to suggest it now.Monday 14 September '09
Nearly a week after animal hides were confiscated from a duo selling them at Andheri, the Amboli police have confirmed that one of the skins was of a Blackbuck, an animal protected in India under the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.Monday
14 September '09Environment activists are aghast about a proposal that would allow projects, once cleared environmentally, to expand without seeking further clearance.Friday
11 September '09Nine minutes of voluntarily-imposed darkness has changed 19-year-old Mehul Ramakant Bhatt’s perspective on use of electricity.Tuesday
8 September '09An owl, which was rescued from the Uran Highway and sent to the Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Hospital at Parel for treatment by two animal enthusiasts last Tuesday...Wednesday
2 September '09An owl belonging to a rare species, with severely injured wings, was rescued and sent to the Bombay SPCA Hospital on Tuesday...Monday
31 August '09Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh’s controversial book on M A Jinnah is selling not only in its original form at legitimate bookstores, but also in pirated prints on the pavements.Thursday
27 August '09Noise levels in the city seem to have remained well under control so far this Ganeshotsav. According to hospital authorities and civic officials...Thursday
27 August '09The Vile Parle (E) vegetable market has become cleaner and greener in the three months since it imposed a plastic ban on itself.Tuesday
25 August '09Till Saturday, August had been unusually hot, with the temperature crossing 32°C more than once, 32.1°C in Colaba on August 15, followed by 32.5°C in Colaba and 32°C in Santacruz on August 17.Sunday
23 August '09Three weeks after Mamata Banerjee flagged off exclusive trains for women, THE SUNDAY EXPRESS hitches rides on two of them. There are no rules here, except that men are to stay away....Sunday
16 August '09Even as monsoon entered the third week of August in Mumbai, the Meteorological department on Friday said the weather is bound to remain dry, with no sign of heavy showers at least till the next weekend.Thursday
13 August '09Leopards have always existed peacefully around human habitation, but in regions where they were repeatedly pushed back to the forest...Wednesday
12 August '09The friendly neighbourhood Maharashtra Nature Park, a green lung on the heavily polluted Bandra-Sion Link Road, is set for a makeover but with citizens’ approval.Monday
10 August '09Brazilian photographer Conceição B Praun may have travelled across the globe in her quest to portray cultures and civilisations, but it was not until she came to India that she found a perfect parallel to her beloved nation.Thursday
6 August '09The world’s second most successful rusty-spotted cat breeding programme at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Borivali has just got more success to it.Tuesday
4 August '09A survey carried out by Greenpeace has revealed that the politicians of Mumbai are well aware of climate change and its threat to the planet...Friday
31 July '09About 2,000 people from 25 agricultural and fishing villages gathered at Poynad Village on Alibaug-Dharamtar Road, about 113 km from Mumbai, on Thursday to protest against a proposed coal-fired thermal power plant.Thursday
30 July '09Thirteen-year-old Vignesh Kawle is oblivious of the world around him as he single-mindedly kneads a mass of clay with his fingers trying to create the perfect elephant head.Monday
27 July '09Nagpanchami, this year, brought a sense of triumph to snake rescuers across the city.Monday
27 July '09Faye Lewis of Bandra is in northern Greenland, waiting for the most fantastic — and possibly most alarming — phenomenon of her life: the disintegration of an ice glacier roughly the size of Thane district.Saturday
25 July '09The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has collected samples of sludge and fish carcasses from the Ghansoli Creek...Friday
24 July '09A three-inch ‘bushbaby’ galago, a primate native to Central Africa, sits huddled in a plastic basket at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivali.Thursday
23 July '09Weather bureaus in the city and worldwide have forecast moderate rain till the weekend but Mumbai remains on tenterhooks ahead of the season’s highest tide levels from Thursday.Saturday
18 July '09A month after two horses— which were part of an illegal tonga race— fell off the Andheri flyover to death, the Bombay SPCA along with Plants and Animals Welfare Society...