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 …
With Indian cities gasping for parking space to keep pace with the soaring car population, Urban Development minister Kamal Nath wants to ensure that all new urban construction activity is accompanied with adequate parking facilities for vehicles.
Panjim: The garbage situation in the Panjim eased yesterday with workers of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) working overnight to clear garbage lying unattended around parts of the city.
Bhopal, May 20: The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh dedicated the Rs. 12 thousand crore Bharat-Oman Refinery at Agasod near Bina today. Describing it a world class project he said that it would boost development in and around Bundelkhand region. The revenue of Madhya Pradesh would go up and around …
CHENNAI: Now that a new government has assumed office in the State, the question that many residents of the city seem to be asking is: Will the Chennai Metro Rail project be pursued at the same pace and meet the deadline? The previous AIADMK government (2001-06) had preferred a monorail-based …
In view of water problems faced by the city, the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has, until now, given clearance to 30 structures that have water-harvesting systems and are, therefore, capable of water conservation. Over a year ago, the city
The pilot scheme to develop satellite towns around seven mega cities will spill over to the 12th Plan period (2013 to 2018), as against the original deadline of April 2012. The urban development ministry is in the process of writing to the Planning Commission to seek more time for executing …
THE Union ministry of panchayati raj has suggested amendments to streamline local governance in the tribal areas of north-eastern states. The draft amendments to existing laws governing local bodies in the Sixth Schedule areas would help fight insurgency prevailing in the region and effectively implement Central government programmes, such as …
Uncertainty hangs over the utilisation of about 2,177 hectares or approximately 5,000 acres of salt pan land for domestic, social housing and commercial purposes in Mumbai. Following its assurance to the Parliament that it will work out a feasible plan for the appropriation of salt pan land spread across 13 …
After numerous complaints of congestion and the lack of parking space in Khan Market area, the Urban Development Ministry has asked the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to prepare a proposal for a multi-level parking lot. For some time now, the Khan Market Traders
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation MD E. Sreedharan briefs Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot (third from right) and Union Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath (second from right) about the Jaipur Metro during the launch function on Thursday. Work on the much-awaited Jaipur Metro Rail, the Pink City's dream project, was formally …
- Munda clears Rs 134cr JNNURM project for Jugsalai, Mango, Adityapur, Ghorabandha Ranchi, Feb. 22: Residents of Jamshedpur living outside the Tata command area can finally hope for better drinking water facilities with chief minister Arjun Munda clearing the decks for a Rs 134.43 crore project that is to be …
It is rather naive to delink urbanisation from the rising lifestyle aspirations and the imperatives of economic development. Opportunities, power and prestige are some of the irresistible attributes of the growing urban centres which attract migrants on a large scale. In India economic liberalisation and urbanisation have become complimentary to …
In its bid to clean rivers mainly Ganga the state government tabled an Amendment Bill in the Legislative Assembly on Friday which will prohibit the sell and use of plastic or polythene within a prescribed area of rivers, relatively smaller rivers and ponds. The Urban Development Minister Nakul Dubey tabled …
Kamal Nath, who today took over as the urban development minister with an ambitious plan of giving a boost to urban transportation, intends to expand the Delhi Metro network to make it bigger than its London counterpart by 2017.
