Afroz Shah

A video of a herd of deer near Mithi River in Mumbai was shared on Twitter by Afroz Shah - the Mumbai-based lawyer turned environmentalist who started the Versova Beach clean-up in 2015

World Environment Day: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar launched a campaign asking people to take selfies with a sapling on World Environment Day today. In a photo tweeted by Abhinav Billaiya, an expert with the National Agriculture Market (eNAM), Mr Javadekar is seen posing beside a sapling with a cellphone in hand, trying to take a se...

Mumbai is celebrating World Earth Day 2018 by stepping up its effort to clean its beaches and control the marine pollution caused by plastic. Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray and actor Dia Mirza spent over an hour at Dadar beach to support a movement that took inspiration from lawyer Afroz Shah's massive clean up effort at Versova beach, which rec...

A rare sight on Versova beach excited Mumbaikars on Friday. 87 hatchlings of the Olive Ridley turtle were spotted. Conservationists say this is the first time in almost two decades the turtles have been seen while some others question the nesting site

Olive Ridley turtles have a new tale to tell at Mumbai's Versova beach. A group of volunteers engaged in a clean-up of the Versova beach stumbled upon Olive Ridley hatchlings on the wet sand. They called the forest officials and made sure that the turtles walked into the sea without any trouble.

Lawyer Afroz Shah, whose initiative to clean up the Versova beach in Mumbai was suspended after facing harassment from some anti-social elements, today met the Maharashtra Chief Minister, but said he had no plan to resume the drive presently.

Afroz Shah, a lawyer and environmentalist who led a large people's movement to collect garbage from Mumbai's famous Versova Beach,told NDTV, "I have to state blankly that I have failed miserably."

The man who spearheaded the effort to clean up Mumbai's notoriously dirty Versova beach has been warned off. Afroz Shah, a 33-year-old lawyer, had started the effort almost single-handedly nearly two years ago.

KBC 9: Amitabh Bachchan invited Afroz Shah, to lead a campaign to clean Versova beach in Mumbai and Shilpa Shetty helped him

For 33-year-old Afroz Shah, Saturday was a landmark day as his effort to start a movement reached an important milestone. The Versova beach clean-up effort crossed its 100th week with close to a thousand volunteers spending two hours removing plastic from the beach.

A Mumbai-based lawyer, who was lauded today by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for cleanliness work he has done at the Versova beach, thanked Mr Modi and said his words will act as a morale booster.

A picture shared on Twitter of Mumbai's Versova beach shows what difference it makes when citizens come together to clean their locality or beach.

Garbage and more garbage, lining a strip of beach: It was this view from their window that pushed Afroz Shah and his neighbour Harbansh Mathur to do something about it.

A Dubai-based businessman from Surat was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for his alleged role in the multi-crore hawala scam.

A video of a herd of deer near Mithi River in Mumbai was shared on Twitter by Afroz Shah - the Mumbai-based lawyer turned environmentalist who started the Versova Beach clean-up in 2015

World Environment Day: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar launched a campaign asking people to take selfies with a sapling on World Environment Day today. In a photo tweeted by Abhinav Billaiya, an expert with the National Agriculture Market (eNAM), Mr Javadekar is seen posing beside a sapling with a cellphone in hand, trying to take a se...

Mumbai is celebrating World Earth Day 2018 by stepping up its effort to clean its beaches and control the marine pollution caused by plastic. Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray and actor Dia Mirza spent over an hour at Dadar beach to support a movement that took inspiration from lawyer Afroz Shah's massive clean up effort at Versova beach, which rec...

A rare sight on Versova beach excited Mumbaikars on Friday. 87 hatchlings of the Olive Ridley turtle were spotted. Conservationists say this is the first time in almost two decades the turtles have been seen while some others question the nesting site

Olive Ridley turtles have a new tale to tell at Mumbai's Versova beach. A group of volunteers engaged in a clean-up of the Versova beach stumbled upon Olive Ridley hatchlings on the wet sand. They called the forest officials and made sure that the turtles walked into the sea without any trouble.

Lawyer Afroz Shah, whose initiative to clean up the Versova beach in Mumbai was suspended after facing harassment from some anti-social elements, today met the Maharashtra Chief Minister, but said he had no plan to resume the drive presently.

Afroz Shah, a lawyer and environmentalist who led a large people's movement to collect garbage from Mumbai's famous Versova Beach,told NDTV, "I have to state blankly that I have failed miserably."

The man who spearheaded the effort to clean up Mumbai's notoriously dirty Versova beach has been warned off. Afroz Shah, a 33-year-old lawyer, had started the effort almost single-handedly nearly two years ago.

KBC 9: Amitabh Bachchan invited Afroz Shah, to lead a campaign to clean Versova beach in Mumbai and Shilpa Shetty helped him

For 33-year-old Afroz Shah, Saturday was a landmark day as his effort to start a movement reached an important milestone. The Versova beach clean-up effort crossed its 100th week with close to a thousand volunteers spending two hours removing plastic from the beach.

A Mumbai-based lawyer, who was lauded today by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for cleanliness work he has done at the Versova beach, thanked Mr Modi and said his words will act as a morale booster.

A picture shared on Twitter of Mumbai's Versova beach shows what difference it makes when citizens come together to clean their locality or beach.

Garbage and more garbage, lining a strip of beach: It was this view from their window that pushed Afroz Shah and his neighbour Harbansh Mathur to do something about it.

A Dubai-based businessman from Surat was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for his alleged role in the multi-crore hawala scam.