Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The death toll of children from diphtheria at municipal hospitals in north-west Delhi has risen to 18, even as the area's mayor has set up a panel to look into it, officials said on Sunday. Twelve deaths were reported at the Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Diseases Hospital on September 20 and …
AHMEDABAD: Swine flu and dengue seems to be rearing up again in the city. There have been there have been 76 cases of dengue and 51 of swine in the last week. There have also been six deaths from swine flu in the city in the same period. According figures …
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court directed the Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday to detail the steps taken against unauthorised pandals across the state ahead of the Ganesh festival. In Mumbai alone, over 300 illegal pandals have come up ahead of the 10-day festival which starts on …
With 28 fresh cases having been reported this season, dengue has spread its tentacles in the Corporation Town Phagwara. When contacted, Senior Medical Officer Phagwara Davinder Singh has confirmed that a total of 12 dengue cases have been detected positive. He said though it was a total failure of the …
KOLKATA: Duttabad area under Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation has been badly hit by dengue this year and the civic authorities are taking all measures as possible to prevent the disease to further spread in the locality. Another 95 persons had attended the two medical camps in Duttabad on Sunday out of …
Civic workers clear a pile of garbage at DuttabadCivic workers clear a pile of garbage at Duttabad KOLKATA: The Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation on Saturday started collecting blood samples of patients suffering from fever and dengue-like symptoms. The civic body also started cleaning ponds and roads in Duttabad to tackle the …
The Delhi High Court on Thursday clarified that its order prohibiting felling of trees was restricted to the redevelopment of seven south Delhi colonies and would not affect any other project in the national capital. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao gave the order …
RTI data collected by the Praja Foundation has revealed that the occurrence of dengue has increased by 98 per cent in the past five years. Despite the increase, areas such as Andheri West, Ghatkopar East, and Chembur have not reported a single case of dengue this year. According to the …
Installation faces problems of delay, poor-quality fixtures The ongoing installation of LED street lights in east Delhi continues to face problems of delay and poor-quality fixtures, East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) Standing Committee members complained on Thursday. August deadline The project to install one lakh LED lights by the end …
Even as the festival season is about to begin from first week of September, anti-noise pollution activists are up in arms against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for only notifying 110 silence zones in the city in the past one year. Sumaira Abdulali, Convenor of Awaaz foundation said that she …
There has been a sharp rise in malaria cases over the last week in the city. A weekly bulletin issued by the health department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), stated that there have been 1,449 cases of malaria until the 25 in just this month. Just in the last …
BHOPAL: The state capital reported its first ever case of co-infection of dengue and Japanese encephalitis (JE) here on Tuesday. A 10-year-old girl with the infection was confirmed with the co-infection— arboviral diseases till now common in the tropical countries. The patient is a resident of Tilajamalpura area in Bhopal. …
Nashik: The work of installing solar panels for all buildings of Nashik Municipal Corporation under the Smart City Scheme will begin in few days. Tender for solar panels have been approved. The letter of award has been issued to the contractor. In a few days, the work order will be …
With 34 fresh cases reported last week, the total number of malaria cases has reached at 207. On the other hand, the total number of people affected by dengue is 117 while the figure for chikungunya stands at 64, according to a data released by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation …
However, despite several orders by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), no concrete steps have been taken by the authorities In the face of government apathy towards reviving water bodies in Delhi, locals and volunteers in the parched Dwarka area have successfully revived two such ponds recently. While the area in …
Anti-larvae teams of the Health Department and the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation detected 15 dengue larvae cases on Thursday during its ongoing drive against vector-borne diseases. Out of 15 cases, 11 were found in desert coolers. Four teams, led by Raj Kumar, Gurwinder Singh, Harjit Kumar and Gurpal Singh carried out …
The people should begin using paper and jute bags to replace plastic. Hyderabad: The state government has been grappling with the issue of reducing the use of disposable plastic in the city. Earlier, it had taken many initiatives and in yet another effort, the Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MAUD) …
To push waste segregation and processing at source, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has initiated prosecution against 962 bulk waste generators – housing societies and commercial establishments – and also dragged around 567 to court over non-compliance. The action may be far from satisfactory considering that nearly 2,200 bulk waste generators …
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has found 21 construction sites, four schools and a BRTS workshops, which are the most prominent sites of mosquito breeding. The civic body has been conducting an inspection of mosquito breeding sites since a week. Administration charge worth Rs 2.65 lakh has been levied on these …
PUNE: The number of chikungunya cases may not be on a drastic rise like dengue, but it still is keeping medical practitioners and citizens in the state on an alert. Between January 1 and July 7 this year, 178 chikungunya cases were reported from across Maharashtra. In the same period …
