1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (332+ words) The Regional Meteorological Centre Mumbai has issued a yellow alert for Mumbai, Thane and Raigad, warning of thunderstorms, lightning, rain and gusty winds over the weekend, while Palghar and several districts across Maharashtra face the possibility of heavy to very…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago   (759+ words) urbanacres.in Nashik’s Miyawaki Urban Forest Turns a Dump Yard Into Public Asset The transformation of a decades-old dump yard in Devlali into Nashik’s first Miyawaki urban forest shows how neglected urban land can become an ecological asset, but it…...

11+ hour, 27+ min ago   (422+ words) The Bengal government plans to relocate a tigress from Bihar’s Valmiki National Park and Tiger Reserve to Buxa Tiger Reserve in north Bengal, in an effort to revive a tiger population that has declined over several decades. Three teams have…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (291+ words) Mumbai’s seven water-supplying lakes held 96.44 per cent of their combined useful live storage on September 10, according to the latest report of the Hydraulic Engineer’s Department, with the reservoirs collectively containing 13,95,895 million litres (ML) of water. Mumbai | September 10, 2026 — The combined useful…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (427+ words) Light to moderate rain is likely in Pune and parts of Maharashtra between September 12 and 15 as a low-pressure area may develop over the Bay of Bengal, weather experts said, potentially affecting Ganesh festival celebrations across the state. The low-pressure system…...

6+ day, 41+ min ago   (404+ words) Mumbai’s seven drinking-water reservoirs held 1,393,459 million litres, or 96.28 per cent of their combined live storage capacity, as of 6 am on Monday, September 7, according to the Hydraulic Engineers Department at the Bhandup Master Control Centre. The latest stock is lower than…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (792+ words) urbanacres.in India’s Drone Rules Are Struggling to Keep Pace With Adoption India’s drone rules are becoming harder for ordinary users to ignore as unmanned aircraft move from specialist equipment into weddings, farms, property marketing, land surveys and social-media production....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (793+ words) Rooftop Solar Growth Tests India’s Household Energy Transition urbanacres.in Rooftop Solar Growth Tests India’s Household Energy Transition The latest data from the PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana places India’s residential rooftop solar programme at a significant but uneven…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (801+ words) urbanacres.in PM Surya Ghar’s Rooftop Solar Push Reveals a Scale Gap India’s PM Surya Ghar rooftop solar programme has crossed a significant installation threshold, but the latest state-level data also reveal the administrative and execution gap between household interest…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1070+ words) urbanacres.in India’s Rooftop Solar Push Is Becoming a State-Level Test Subheadline: Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra are driving residential installations under PM Surya Ghar, but the gap between applications and completed systems shows that scale is only one measure of…...