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 …
While doctors in the city say they have been flooded with cases of gastroenteritis and acute diarrhoea over the past couple of weeks, the health and sanitation wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Cor-poration says it has come across only 92 cases in the last one week. Last year, during …
Several days of rain have resulted in an increase in the groundwater levels, according to the groundwater department. The groundwater department has been getting reports of dry and even redundant borewells metamorphosing into active ones in different parts of the state. Even places like Koti and Mehdipatnam in the city …
Hyderabad-based Gulf Oil Corporation Limited has entered into a joint development agreement with Hinduja Estates Private Limited, also a Hinduja group company, to develop 76 acre of the former’s land at Kukatpally in Hyderabad. While Gulf Oil will provide the land, Hinduja Estates will invest around Rs 3,500 crore in …
The city has received excess rainfall this monsoon. Yet residents of a large number of colonies in Secunderabad Cantonment limits are facing a severe shortage of water. Residents of Anna Nagar receive water supply once a week, and there are many such areas in Cantonment. Ward members say that neither …
Though the water available in the reservoirs presently is far less in quantity compared to the same day last year, it will be sufficient to supply 340 million gallons of water per day to the city if the officials of Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board are to be …
Rampant encroachment on the lakebeds causes flooding in neighbouring areas such as Chandrayangutta, Bandlaguda and Nadeem Colony, as the lakes that have now shrunk can no longer store the water when it rains. The situation is particularly dire when the bunds across the lakes are breached. Last Friday, the Pallecheru …
Following the footsteps of GHMC, the Secunderabad Cantonment Board has decided to purchase dumper-placers or vehicles that have machinery mounted to lift garbage bins. The Cantonment Board meeting on Thursday decided to purchase five dumper-placer vehicles and 200 bins. Meanwhile, the GHMC has come under sharp criticism from various quarters …
The L&T; Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd has finalised a unique “cantilever elevated design” for Metro Rail stations coming up in the city. In all, there will be 66 stations at 63 locations. Except for the three joint stations of Ameerpet (corridors I & III), Parade Grounds (corridors II & III) …
A below-par monsoon is likely to set alarm bells ringing in the UPA 2 Government, already reeling under the impact of an economic downturn. Besides affecting the kharif sowing, which is certain to have a bearing on the production of rice, oilseeds and pulses, the delay in rain has the …
A committee of corporators has recommended that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation levy hefty penalties on industries that are releasing their sewage into the storm water drain network of the civic body. The committee members inspected industrial areas in and around Sanathnagar, Fateh-nagar, Deen Dayal Nagar, Ferozguda, Navjeevan Nagar and …
Green dental offices will soon become the need of the day! Although coal-run power plants are one of the leading sources of high levels of mercury in water, amongst the lesser yet significant contributors towards the same is also the dental sector. Sources reveal that dental amalgam or silver fillings, …
As New Delhi prepares for the biggest conference on biodiversity this October, are its claims to global leadership in conserving ecosystems really valid? THIS OCTOBER, India will host possibly the largest environmental gathering in its history. Over 10,000 representatives from different governments, civil society and other sectors from 200 countries …
A Division Bench, comprising Justice V.V.S. Rao and Justice G. Krishna Mohan Reddy of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday ruled that municipalities and corporations have to set up their garbage dumping yards within their territorial limits, not in neighbouring villages. While allowing a batch of petitions by villagers …
New Delhi Mumbai and Delhi which are presently reeling under water crisis will require the maximum supply of the municipal tap water in the world by 2025, according to a Mckinsey Global Institute report. Mumbai tops the list of the 20 global cities in terms of municipal water demand in …
An expert committee of APPCB has pointed out the presence of unapproved products in samples of 15 drug and pharmaceutical manufacturing units. The findings were part of a report sought by the Appellate Authority under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act and the Air (Prevention and Control of …
Scientists at the city-based National Geophysical Research Laboratory (NGRI) are optimistic that if water conserving measures such as rainwater harvesting are put in place in a joint venture of citizens and civic bodies, the monsoon will be enough to ensure the city does not experience another parched summer. Dr Shakeel …
With the water levels in reservoirs depleting fast, complaints over an acute scarcity of water are pouring in from almost all parts of Hyderabad city. Citizens say a large number of areas in the city are short of water now. The Water Board has started pumping water from the Osmansagar …
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, has approved Hyderabad Water Board's proposal for a HUDCO loan of Rs 1,670 crore to execute the Krishna Phase III project. This project seeks to evacuate water from the Krishna river and supply it in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation …
Some officials of the Water Board seem to have found an easy way to solve the problem of water contamination in the city. Citizens complain that they have received SMSes from officials stating that the water pollution complaints lodged by them have been attended to and the problem solved. “I …
Commercial borewells in residential areas are guzzling precious ground water. As a result, the domestic borewells in surrounding houses and apartments are going dry, causing utter inconvenience to citizens. As per the Water Air Land and Trees (WALTA) Act, commercialisation of borewell water is not allowed in residential areas or …
