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 …
division bench comprising Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice P.V. Sanjay Kumar of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday told Hyderabad City police to enhance the penalty that vehicles must pay for parking illegally. The bench was disposing of a plea by the East Maruthinagar Welfare Association seeking …
The city is fast becoming a concrete jungle of chaos and cacophony An endless stream of private vehicles, honking buses and heavy vehicles and mushrooming two-wheelers. All leading to traffic snarls and adding to the load of air and noise pollution. Like most metros, Hyderabad, once known for its salubrious …
World Bank Consultant Sandra Cointreau feels governments need to educate citizens about the importance of municipal solid waste management projects and prepare them to pay for their maintenance. Unless people start paying for the multi-crore projects being taken up to improve environment, the solid waste management projects cannot be sustained, …
Lack of transparency in the property acquisition and compensation process has become a stumbling block in the progress of Hyderabad Metro Rail works. Conflicting statements by the HMR and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials with regard to property acquisition and payment of compensation have been leading to growing resentment among …
After years of official apathy resulting in thousands of crores of public money going down the drain, the GHMC has finally woken up to the fact that it is the absence of storm water drains and improper design of roads that is the main reason for city roads getting damaged …
Even 11 years after the Supreme Court laid down guidelines for management of municipal solid waste (MSW Rules 2000), the GHMC is yet to start scientific disposal of garbage. GHMC is now making extra efforts to adopt eco-friendly measures of waste disposal as the state capital (Greater Hyderabad) will host …
Urban mobility has different dimensions. Mobility is due to various purposes and needs. It encompasses movability by public, private and personalised modes, and manoeuvrability through the facilitations of various transport infrastructure and services provided by the concerned authorities. In this context, the role of various modes of public transport in …
Health risk posed by piling household garb-age due to the GHMC strike has become a contentious issue, with some of the opinion that it will not lead to any epidemic, and others contending that it heightens the risk of transmission of diseases. Experts say that there is no cause for …
With the season changing, city doctors are reporting about a 20 per cent rise in viral fever cases, including dengue and malaria, compared to the last month. The Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) and Fever Hospital are also recording an increased number of viral fever cases this season. Dr Aftab …
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is all set to hike the cost of drinking water for the domestic as well as commercial users. The additional revenue collected by the Water Board is expected to exceed `200 crore per annum. The proposal for the hike was submitted by …
The Tata group has been told that it is not entitled to the land it was allotted for its ambitious aerospace projects in Hyderabad, an embarrassing development for both Ratan Tata and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddy. Hyderabad’s urban planning agency is arguing that the land which was …
The Rs 3,375 crore phase-I of the Godavari drinking water project, aimed at bringing 172 million gallons of water per day to the city, is likely to run into rough weather. The Irrigat-ion and Command Area Development authorities say it may be difficult to supply 10 tmc of water from …
The city’s ground water is not fit for consumption unless it is treated for both biological and chemical contamination. A ground water quality study conducted by the Central Ground Water Board in several parts of Hyderabad revealed that water tapped from the ground failed in a number of crucial parameters …
Your favourite jowar ki roti may soon carry genes from bacteria that live in the digestive tract. City scientists have successfully developed jowar (sorghum) varieties that are tolerant to drought and salinity. The sorghum varieties get these special properties thanks to a gene called mtlD, derived from Escherichia coli. The …
Indian nuclear reactors will get a facility that automatically shuts them down in case of a devastating earthquake, as part of the ongoing upgrade of safety features that is being implemented after the nuclear disaster in Japan. The other safety features include providing different options for power sources for cooling …
E. Sreedharan spoke to BW on urban transportation and the way forward for a country that is urbanising at a frenetic pace Most people take life easy after retirement. But Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, 79, has been on the job since he retired from the Indian Railways in 1990. The managing director …
How deep should one dig a bore well in Hyderabad and Secunderabad in order to extract ground water As builders and house owners vie with one another to dig deeper into the soil for perennial sources of groundwater, geologists clarify that the water table in the twin cities is just …
The detailed project report (DPR) for the Krishna phase-III project that will bring an additional 90 million gallons of water per day to the city has been submitted to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Board by the Tata Consultancy Engineers Limited, Mumbai. The DPR pegs the total project cost …
An agricultural research institute in India has developed hybrid varieties of pigeon pea (arhar), which promise to significantly raise output and cut import dependence for the produce. It has been done by scientists from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (Icrisat). Its headquarters are in India, at Hyderabad, …
Anand Sharma led Joint Task Force to interact with industry regularly Concerned over the continued decline in foreign direct investment (FDI) and slowing down of factory output, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Wednesday assured industry of fast tracking reforms, including those in the FDI sector, and setting …
