High AQI: 'Urgent traffic decongestion is a must'

'If we don't control the additional pollutants that come from various human activities, then the pollution level will not come down.' IMAGE: Mumbai skyscrapers covered in haze. Photograph: ANI......

India has 3682 tigers, home to 75% of global numbers

The number of tigers in India has increased from 2,967 in 2018 to 3,682 in 2022, an annual rise of 6 per cent, according to the latest government data released on the International Tiger Day on......

Bhima Koregaon Commission To Shift Base To Pune

This is just another instance of the indifference with which the Commission has been treated by the government.Jyoti Punwani reports. IMAGE: A protest in Mumbai, March 26, 2018, to demand action......

Tiger count rises in Shivalik-Gangetic region, dips in Western Ghats: Report

The tiger population has gone up in the Shivalik Hills-Gangetic Plains landscape, central India and the Sundarbans but their numbers have dwindled in the Western Ghats and the Northeast-Brahmaputra......

Maharashtra refinery hit by mega project jinx

The Rs 3-trillion West Coast or Nanar refinery has all the potential to become India’s flagship petrochemicals project, with the planet’s largest oil producer Saudi Aramco as its......

The future is here, and it's electric!

Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com drives the Mahindra Reva to Pune and comes away impressed with the electric car. With the Delhi government all set to enforce its even-odd vehicle policy on its roads......

Biotech hub in the Sahyadris

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced that a bio-tech hub would be developed in the Mumbai-Pune corridor."A bio-tech hub in Mumbai-Pune corridor would soon be developed taking into......

This Indian Navyman ran the toughest marathon on earth

Not everyone completes the Badwater Marathon, Breeze Sharma did so, the fastest Indian ever.Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi spoke to the Indian Navyman to find out how he did it. Not every man survives a......

ISL: Andre Moritz's hat-trick helps Mumbai City FC thrash Pune

Brazilian Andre Moritz dazzled the home crowd with a hat-trick of goals to power Mumbai City FC to a stunning 5-0 victory over state rivals FC Pune City in a Hero Indian Super League......