The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
There is some relief in sight for the allottees of Commonwealth Games Village flats. The Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) has found the project acceptable “from the point of view of aesthetic quality of urban and environmental design”. But the commission has made it clear that issuing completion certificate for …
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday urged the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) to consider funding various projects relating to water supply, solid waste management, roads and improvement of street lights in City Development Plans of all 26 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) falling in the NCR sub-region …
Following criticism regarding the dismal performance of the national river cleaning projects by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in its audit, the Environment Ministry is preparing a reply saying that the cleaning of rivers is not the job of one ministry alone and it requires much more …
The government is likely to announce setting up of a national programme to deal with the danger posed by Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) on Tuesday. Officials in the Union health ministry disclosed that the GoM, which is slated to meet on Tuesday, is likely to announce …
As the “Metro Man”, the Managing Director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Dr. E. Sreedharan, prepares to hang up his boots at the end of this year, he says he is reasonably satisfied with his experience of giving Delhi a world class public transport system, and over how the Delhi …
The State Government has requested the Union Government to provide grant upto 80 per cent grants to the projects being implemented in Madhya Pradesh under the JNNURM. While talking to media persons here Wednesday, Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur said the Centre at present provides 50 per cent …
New Delhi: Sixteen years after the introduction of mobile telephony in India, the government is finally readying the first set of guidelines on electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation from mobile base stations mounted on cellular phone towers. India has roughly 4 lakh mobile towers according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of …
AGARTALA: Solid waste management in Agartala Municipal Council is running under pitiable condition, leave aside the issues of smaller townships, said Minister for Urban Development Manik Dey here today. A news website quoted the Minister about proposals tabled by the state government before New Delhi for catering better facilities to …
The Union Urban Development Ministry, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and Haryana Government signed a memorandum of understanding here on Thursday for the development of the metro link between Sikanderpur station and National Highway-8 in Gurgaon. The five-kilometre link is being constructed by Rapid Metro Rail Gurgaon Limited (RMGL). Urban Development …
The Metro link between Badarpur in Delhi and YMCA Chowk in Faridabad got Haryana Cabinet approval on Wednesday. The Cabinet, which met under Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, approved the project at a revised cost of Rs 2,494 crore. The elevated corridor, an extension of the existing Line 6 …
Union Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises Condoning the illegalities of the past, the Union Urban Development Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises with quick access …
Lok Sabha on Monday passed the National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (special provision) second bill, 2011. Replying to the debate on the bill, Union urban development minister Kamal Nath promised to prepare a visionary plan that will take into account the requirements for the next 25 years. Conceding that …
SILIGURI, 8 DEC: The north Bengal development minister, Mr Gautam Deb, today inaugurated the North Bengal Tea park near New Jalpaiguri railway station. It has been learnt from the SJDA officials and senior functionaries of the Indian Tea Board that the Rs 23 crore 92 lakh project happens to be …
The Delhi government on Tuesday has won the “Best PPP Initiative in Urban Transport” award for introducing cluster buses in the city at the Urban Mobility Conference 2011 organised by the Institute of Urban Transport (India). The awards were given away by Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath and was …
Rs 250-crore terminal to be built at Hebbal on PPP model The State government has submitted a proposal to the Centre to provide 500 buses to the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM). Home and Transport Minister R Ashoka, speaking after distributing …
“There is no real gloom in the real estate industry. The industry is just used to a greater boom. And having seen this atmosphere of boom, anything that is not boom, looks like gloom.” This is how Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath described the real estate situation at a …
After Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath slammed Delhi’s Master Plan-2021 as disconnected from ground realities and in need for revision, officials behind the Water Master Plan for Delhi-2021 are in a quandary over issues like adequate water supply and population density in the coming years. “If the MPD-21 is …
The disease has claimed 861 lives so far with 470 in U.P. alone Concerned over the high mortality and morbidity because of Japanese encephalitis (JE) and acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), the Group of Ministers (GoM) held its first meeting here on Monday to discuss short, medium and long-term measures needed …
With 135 districts across 17 states affected and 861 people dead till November 4, the Japanese Encephalitis epidemic has crossed last year’s figures. This year there were 6,297 reported cases against 5,149 in 2010 and 677 deaths. Approximately, 70-75 per cent of these have been reported from Uttar Pradesh, with …
AFTER having missed several deadlines, the much-awaited Bangalore Metro finally began operations on October 20 on its first stretch – Reach 1 of the Eastern line, part of Phase I of the Metro project. Reach 1 was inaugurated by Union Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath in the presence of …
