This Paper presents the environmental evolution of Mumbai city. The concept of eI1vironmental evolution as developed and adapted by Sai and Imum is applied to stu~ the. p~t enviropw.ental status of Mumbai. In '" .... '.,., ' ,~.. ,! ..> . order to study its dynamics the entire process of environmental evolution is cIWideclintotDur types viz. poverty related environmental issues, industrializati...

As large numbers of ships either take in ballast from or discharge their ballast into the Mumbai Harbor region, it is pertinent to quantify microorganisms of health concerns and suggest on the suitability of water for ballasting purposes. To meet with this main aim, a selected set of general and pathogenic bacterial groups and their seasonal variations were studied from the Mumbai Harbor area. ...

To assess and monitor the environmental dynamics on a regional or global scale, Land Surface Temperature (LST) has been estimated for South Mumbai, using Landsat data years 2000, 2010, 2015, 2020. The urban heat island (UHI) effect also assessed by analysing LST pattern in study area. normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) analysis shows that UHI effects are less when cover is high. On c...

Dear Colleagues, We all assemble in Mumbai from 24-26 th March for the very important INTROPICON. The conference promises to be a scientific feast and the organising committee has left no stone unturned to make sure that the scientific program is of very high standards. AIAN has brought out a book of abstracts for this meeting and as you will see, the abstracts cover a wide variety of tropical ...

India is a significant contemporary design laboratory for collective housing models in terms of both the construction that experiments with new building materials and technologies flexible informal contexts. Starting historical review created by B.V. Doshi Charles Correa mid-1900s, this paper compares recent projects designed Anupama Kundoo Bijoy Jain (Studio Mumbai) Auroville Mumbai. The chose...

Background: Navi Mumbai holds a large-scale market in Vashi that is the APMC market. Hence, several mathadi workers work there on regular basis. Purpose: The analysis was done to identify working posture of and whether they require any changes or not Method: Sixty who had spent at least one year job participated this survey. They were recruited by non-probability sample convenience from situate...

We report here the annotated genome sequence of a clinical isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Mumbai, India.

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 100, NO. 4, 25 FEBRUARY 2011 476 Bhushan Patwardhan is in the Institute of Ayurveda and Integrated Medicine, Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore 560 106, India; Vishnu Joglekar is in the Tilak Ayurveda Mahavidyalaya, Pune 411 011, India; Namyata Pathak is in the Kasturba Health Society, Medical Research Centre, Mumbai 400 056, India; Ashok V...