Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
It was a deadly cocktail of poisonous heavy metals and dangerous coliform bacteria that was responsible for the Bholakpur tragedy that led to 16 deaths and hospitalisation of over 500 people in May, 2009. Residents consumed water containing coliform bacteria 24,000 times in excess of the permissible limit. The heavy …
Fuel (diesel and petrol) constitutes a complex mixture of volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbons among them benzene (BZ), toluene (TOL), and xylene (XYL) are considered to be the most hazardous, predominantly BZ because of its carcinogenic potency. Exposure to these compounds may have an impact on the health of the exposed …
Forest land worth thousands of crores of rupees is encroached upon in the city and Ranga Reddy districts. The forest department has found that 4,648.43 hectares of land in key areas like Dulapally, Medpally, Shamirpet and Ibrahimpatnam have been encroached. The forest department is fighting the cases in various courts …
If one goes by the Master Plan proposals of the HMDA, by 2031 Hyderabad will be the second-largest city according to area. In the forthcoming Master Plan, replete with a Geographical Information System, the city
Five years after the project was almost shelved, tenders have been called for the Krishna Phase-III project that will bring an additional 90 million gallons per day (MGD) of drinking water to the city from the present 340 MGD to 430 MGD. Krishna Phase-III has been revived by the Chief …
A team of Indian virologists has found that the high transmissibility of the pandemic human influenza virus H1N1 is due to its ability to take more control of the host
Complaints are still pouring in of foul-smelling, yellow coloured drinking water being supplied to residents of various localities in the Old City. This is despite the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board claiming that measures have been taken to ensure that the water is potable. Most areas in the …
In what is a record of sorts, engineering giant L&T; has achieved the financial closure for the prestigious Rs 16,375 crore Hyderabad Metro Rail Project, making it the biggest ever fund tie-up in public-private partnership project anywhere in the world in a short span of six months. L&T; Metro Rail …
The officials of the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) are not aware of whether or not the drinking water that they supply to customers in the cantonment area is fit for human consumption. The SCB does not even have the basic equipment that is needed to test the presence of chlorine …
Around 40 more patients were treated at the health camp set up at Chilkalaguda railway quarters where contaminated drinking water has affected around 300 residents in the last three days. The condition of one patient Mr T. Ratnam, 55, continues to be serious. He is on ventilator support at a …
A city lad from Columbia University has come up with a waste management plan for Hyderabad. Mr Ranjit Annepu, 22, was in the city on Monday as part of his three-month MS research at the Earth Engineering Centre, Columbia University, New York. He pointed out,
Yet another World Water Day has arrived without the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board being able to supply potable water to all its consumers in the city. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is presently supplying 342 million gallons per day (MGD) of water to the …
March 13: Thanks to the apathy of the endowments department, devasthanam boards and local civic bodies, pilgrims take the ritual dips in highly polluted water at pilgrim centres and temple towns in the state. Laboratory tests by the AP Pollution Control Board reveal that the water from the holy bathing …
The Environment Ministry has stopped an ambitious project to construct a hotel, a multiplex and a convention centre in a reserve forest area of Hyderabad under the garb of promoting eco-tourism, citing serious violations of project conditions. The Sri Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Botanical Garden, Night Safari and Eco-Park and …
The environment ministry has withdrawn forest clearance given to the Andhra Pradesh Forest Development Corporation promoted eco-tourism project in the Kothaguda reserve forest in Hyderabad. The project to makeover Sri Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy botanical garden in the reserve forest into night safari ecopark and bird park is in violation …
Tech hub Bangalore tops the list in a new Morgan Stanley report on how India's booming cities cope with problems from infrastructure to job creation, with Mumbai, India's financial capital, trailing in 21st place. Asia's third-largest economy is home to one-quarter of the world's 20 most densely populated cities but …
HYDERABAD: Do you know that cave deposits provide vital information on how the Southwest Monsoon behaved several thousand years ago? That is what was found out by scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) by studying oxygen isotopes of the white or light brownish structures (stalagmites) found in different …
Union minister for health and family welfare, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, on Wednesday, rued the rate of decline in various key health indicators like maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality rate, total fertility rate and death and morbidity due to communicable diseases. He, however, complimented the successive governments of the southern …
