Bandra station renovation: a year’s work scarred in three weeks

Sunday 31 May '09

It took a year of elaborate efforts to restore the Bandra railway station building to its original glory. But it took only a few hundred commuters and just three weeks to deface it.

Poaching controllers head for animal park at Vile Parle

Saturday 30 May '09

Dolpin Aquarium, the animal park at Vile Parle, will have new visitors on Saturday. The anti-poaching unit of the wildlife department will be there to take a close look at the park...

Pollution control board officials collect samples from Sewree mudflats to check toxicity

Wednesday 27 May '09

Following the case of a flamingo’s collapse in the swamps of the highly polluted suburb of Sewri last week “due to toxicity in the water”, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has collected water samples from the mudflats for thorough chemical analysis.

Month after hippo death, Byculla zoo wakes up

Tuesday 26 May '09

Seems like the Byculla zoo authority has learnt a lesson the hard way, after suffering the loss of Shakti.

Early monsoon hope swept away by cyclone Aila, fear IMD officials

Tuesday 26 May '09

The south-west monsoon has advanced to South Karnataka touching Mangalore on Monday, the India Meteorological Department announced.

Trailing alien attacks

Monday 25 May '09

Did you know that the household cockroach, a common pest in the entire Indian subcontinent...

Civic body, development authority in blame game over trees at Marine Drive

Sunday 24 May '09

Now, even the trees along the Marine Drive promenade have become a pawn in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority blame-game.

Depression over Bay could hit rains in city

Sunday 24 May '09

It is good as well as bad news for Mumbai. The India Meteorological Department on Saturday confirmed that the south-west monsoon has advanced up to Kochi in Kerala...

A case of missing Mangoes

Friday 22 May '09

While varieties like Rajapuri haven’t made it to the Mumbai markets at all, others like Badami and Lalbaug have been hit by a peculiar lack of demand

Flamingo struggles for life, tells tale of pollution in mudflats

Monday 18 May '09

If a fight had left it injured, the highly-polluted mudflats of Sewri have worsened the state of the full-grown Greater Flamingo that was found lying in the marsh on Sunday.

Green activists say 953 rare trees in Veermata Udyan, BMC spots only 12

Saturday 16 May '09

Taking the controversy over the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan a step further, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has said the garden has only 10-12 rare trees.

Tungareshwar ashram row: SC yet to give verdict on forest officials’ assault

Saturday 16 May '09

A year after six forest department officials were allegedly assaulted by trustees of a temple housed in the Tungareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary...

Monsoon may arrive earlier, say weathermen

Saturday 16 May '09

Even as humidity soars, touching 84 and 72 per cent in Colaba and Santacruz respectively on Friday, Mumbai can expect an earlier monsoon this year.

Environmentalists quote gazetteer, say Jijamata Udyan was mentioned as garden

Friday 15 May '09

Responding to the civic body’s recent claim that the 53-acre Veermata Jijamata Bhosale Udyan in Byculla was never a botanical garden...

‘Lover boy’ revisits city for new book

Thursday 14 May '09

Forty years of photojournalism has not faded or jaded his creative genius. To rekindle his love affair with Mumbai, the self-confessed “lover boy” Raghu Rai...

100 years of weather data to sweat over

Tuesday 12 May '09

Over the last 100 years, the average temperature in Mumbai increased by at least 1.6°C, according to India Meteorological Department data.

A plagued past; Byculla zoo now pins hopes on makeover

Sunday 10 May '09

The death of Shakti, a hippopotamus, at the Byculla zoo on April 24 has raked up a long-standing grudge of mismanagement on the premises.

‘Why is hippo death big news when humans die after best treatment?’

Saturday 9 May '09

Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak on Friday said that the death of Shakti, the hippopotamus in the Byculla zoo, should not be blown out of proportion.

Marine Drive to get 92 new trees

Friday 8 May '09

The Marine Drive, which lost its treasure of 153 coconut palms to the 2005 makeover, will soon get its glory back, albeit partially.

Hippo’s death: experts to test water, fodder samples

Thursday 7 May '09

A team of experts from the Bombay Veterinary College will visit the Byculla zoo on Thursday to collect samples of water and the fodder provided to herbivores, to test for the presence of heavy metals or pesticides in them.

Adjutant stork injured in zoo fight

Tuesday 5 May '09

Merely 10 days after Shakti, an hippopotamus, met with an untimely death due to respiratory failure at the Byculla zoo, an adjutant stork, another resident of the zoo, narrowly escaped a similar fate on Sunday morning.

Wildlife at zoo, National Park cries for specialist vets

Monday 4 May '09

Mumbai may not be short of vets to look after pets and livestock, but wildlife veterinarians are in short supply.

NGO records 40 per cent increase in vulture population near Murud

Sunday 3 May '09

A vulture breeding programme, which began as an experiment in 2005 at Anjarla near Murud, has started showing positive results recording a 40 per cent rise in the bird population in 2008.

Booths for the disabled but voters say there are miles to go

Friday 1 May '09

Thursday began with a fresh hope for several enthusiastic physically-challenged voters in the city, who looked forward to a disabled-friendly voting process as ordered by the Bombay High Court.

Animal welfare NGO questions Byculla Zoo secy on its condition

Wednesday 29 April '09

Reacting to the untimely death of a 5-year-old hippopotamus in the Byculla Zoo on April 24, animal welfare NGO, People for Ethical Treatment to Animals...