The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) will spend Rs 462.50 crore on improving connectivity between places in the city and will first aim at completing work on the ring roads.

The newly urbanized areas of the ever-expanding city have a new threat hovering over them - fluorosis.

There is a ray of hope for hundreds of urban waterbodies, victims of urbanisation and industrial pollution. A combination of bio-ozolyte treatment process and bio-remediation adopted by the State government to save the Ooty Lake, can be used to recover these polluted water bodies.

According to officials, phosphorus and nitrogen are responsible for the rapid growth of water hyacinth, that has invaded many water bodies. The bio-processes will increase the dissolved oxygen (DO), by bringing down the biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD). DO improves quality of water and replenishes life in water bodies.

Gurgaon got the lion's share of Rs 605.48 crore in the total budget estimate of Rs 890.77 crore approved for development works in the urban estate developed by the Haryana Urban Development Authori

Delay in completion of port road connectivity (PRC) projects and loss of toll revenue had resulted in a loss of around Rs 873.85 crore to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), said the C

Two new projects on solid waste management and improving water supply have been sanctioned for Rajkot under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the flagship programme of centr

The Maharashtra government will table the over 690-page report of the Adarsh inquiry commission before the state cabinet.

Construction of the international airport in Navi Mumbai is set for further delay as a high- level Environment Ministry panel has sought more details from the project proponents about the forest ar