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Makeover: Mahim Nature Park invites suggestions

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.
Two arrested in Andheri sold blackbuck’s skin

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.
Once cleared, free to expand anytime

Monday 14 September '09

Environment activists are aghast about a proposal that would allow projects, once cleared environmentally, to expand without seeking further clearance.
Residents, students, shopkeepers come together for 99999

Friday 11 September '09

Nine minutes of voluntarily-imposed darkness has changed 19-year-old Mehul Ramakant Bhatt’s perspective on use of electricity.
Rare owl dies in hospital

Tuesday 8 September '09

An 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...
Rare owl found on road saved by students

Wednesday 2 September '09

An owl belonging to a rare species, with severely injured wings, was rescued and sent to the Bombay SPCA Hospital on Tuesday...
Rs 695 in stores, Rs 150 on streets, Jaswant book a sellout everywhere

Monday 31 August '09

Expelled 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.
Silence zones, recession ensure quieter Ganeshotsav

Thursday 27 August '09

Noise levels in the city seem to have remained well under control so far this Ganeshotsav. According to hospital authorities and civic officials...
Plastic ban works: less waste, no monsoon flooding in Vile Parle vegetable market

Thursday 27 August '09

The Vile Parle (E) vegetable market has become cleaner and greener in the three months since it imposed a plastic ban on itself.
At 32°C-plus, one of the hottest Augusts this decade

Tuesday 25 August '09

Till 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.
THE LADIES’ SPECIAL

Sunday 23 August '09

Three 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....
Expect no rain till next weekend

Sunday 16 August '09

Even 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.
Study links leopard attacks to forest dept driving them back into forests

Thursday 13 August '09

Leopards have always existed peacefully around human habitation, but in regions where they were repeatedly pushed back to the forest...
Set for a makeover, Mahim Nature Park invites ideas from public

Wednesday 12 August '09

The 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.
Brazil photographer writes on India’s eco-problems

Monday 10 August '09

Brazilian 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.
2 more cubs: Rusty spotted family of 6

Thursday 6 August '09

The 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.
Politicians know little about global warming: survey

Tuesday 4 August '09

A survey carried out by Greenpeace has revealed that the politicians of Mumbai are well aware of climate change and its threat to the planet...
Poynad village: farmers protest against coal-based power projects

Friday 31 July '09

About 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.
Eco message: Ganesh idols with a special touch

Thursday 30 July '09

Thirteen-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.
Finally, a snake-friendly Nagpanchami

Monday 27 July '09

Nagpanchami, this year, brought a sense of triumph to snake rescuers across the city.
Bandra girl camps near North Pole, waits for giant glacial meltdown

Monday 27 July '09

Faye 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.
Dead fish in Ghansoli creek: pollution body to test water toxicity

Saturday 25 July '09

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has collected samples of sludge and fish carcasses from the Ghansoli Creek...
Borivali park gets rare inmate, world’s smallest primate rescued from flyer

Friday 24 July '09

A three-inch ‘bushbaby’ galago, a primate native to Central Africa, sits huddled in a plastic basket at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivali.
Brace for a little rain & huge tides

Thursday 23 July '09

Weather 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.
Horses rescued in Andheri

Saturday 18 July '09

A 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...
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