Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …
After getting overwhelming response from the private sector in major rail infrastructure public private partnership (PPP) projects, Indian railways is now eyeing to attract an investment of around R1,000 crore from private sector for building toilets at 600 railway stations under PPP mode. The much-needed step to provide basic amenity …
Hyderabad: Hyderabad is facing the threat of groundwater degradation beyond recoverable level, warn Indian researchers of a German University. A team of four researchers from the department of engineering geology and hydrogeology, RWTH Aachen University has taken up studies on the scarcity of water in the mega cities in India. …
Hyderabad: The city could be heading for a major health crisis if current conditions in the city continue the way they are, say experts. Such an event could very well happen if the municipal authorities do not pull up their socks to improve sanitation and urgently clean up the city. …
In an effort to curb the rapid dieselisation, the Environment Pollution Prevention and Control Authority (EPCA) has called for a proposal to impose both a one time green tax on new cars and also reintroduce the system of owners paying an annual tax on diesel cars. The EPCA describes this …
New Delhi: Creation of IT jobs in Bangalore and Hyderabad seems to have a direct impact on the growth of private vehicles in these two cities. Bangalore, in the past two years, has emerged as next only to Delhi in terms of annual vehicle registration while Hyderabad recorded a big …
Ore Team, a steel and steel-making commodities research house that provides industry professional with real-time news and analysis, pricing information and key research notes, will organise a two-day international conference on iron ore mining industry in Hyderabad from December 13. With all the major iron ore mining regions in the …
The Secunderabad Canton-ment Board is likely to spare residents within its limits from an immediate drinking water tariff hike. The elected ward members, led by vice-president B. Narmada, deferred their decision to increase water charges till the dispute with the Water Board is resolved. The elected members also said a …
The city is looking at a shortage of at least 40 million gallons of drinking water supply during the coming summer. The Water Board will be forced to reduce the duration of supply even in the core city during the summer as the reservoirs have not received sufficient inflows due …
This Diwali night saw a rise in air pollution levels in some pockets of the Capital while noise levels declined compared with last year, according to an air-noise pollution assessment report released by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Wednesday. A senior CPCB official said: “The rise in air …
For a city already troubled by noise pollution, the Deepavali night further took the malaise to new levels, especially in residential areas, anti-pollution control boards have found. The Central Pollution Control Board had instructed the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board to measure noise levels on November 6, when the twin …
Air quality in Hyderabad, India, often exceeds the national ambient air quality standards, especially for particulate matter (PM), which, in 2010, averaged 82.2± 24.6, 96.2± 12.1, and 64.3± 21.2 μg/m3 of PM10, at commercial, industrial, and residential monitoring stations, respectively, exceeding the national ambient standard of 60 μg/m3. In 2005, …
Durgam Cheruvu, the secret lake in Madhapur, is rich in biodiversity, but is not getting the attention it deserves because too many departments are involved in its management. The irrigation department is the owner of the lake, the hill slopes belong to the GHMC and the HMDA, and the tourism …
Jaipur: The state capital of Rajasthan will soon join the club of top ten most populated cities of urban agglomerations in the country. With an expected population of 4.2 million by 2025, Jaipur will rank 10th in the list, a jump of four positions from 1990. The other non-metros which …
India played a leadership role in getting developed countries to double funding for the conservation of biodiversity. Summing up the outcome of the 11th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the Convention on Biodiversity held in Hyderabad recently, environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan said on Monday that India had succeeded in getting …
Developed countries agreed to double funding to support efforts in developing states towards meeting the internationally-agreed biodiversity targets, and the main goals of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity (SPB) 2011-2020. Developing countries also have agreed to increase funding in support of actions to halt the rate of loss of biodiversity …
Logjam over funding pushes talks beyond closing time at biodiversity summit The Convention on Biological Diversity summit ran into overtime on Friday night, as nations struggled to find a way out of the logjam on funding talks, negotiating far beyond their scheduled closing time. While countries have set ambitious goals …
Some 402 new species facing extinction have been added to the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), says a report released on Wednesday at COP 11, the biodiversity conference being held in Hyderabad. India ranked seven in struggling to protect the species on the list. …
An e-Atlas of Marine-Important Bird Areas , was launched by the BirdLife International at the ongoing 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) here on Tuesday. The inventory, covering 3000 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) worldwide, was described as a major contribution to marine conservation …
In a bid to kick-start the stalled process of raising global funds for biodiversity conservation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh committed $50 million (over Rs. 264 crore) for what he called the ‘Hyderabad Pledge’ as India takes over the two-year presidency of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This sum would “strengthen …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pledged $50 million to strengthen institutional mechanism for biodiversity conservation in the country. He made the announcement while launching the high-level segment of the 11th Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad. Stressing on the role played by …
