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 …
Lakhs of families living in the vicinity of the Jawahar Nagar garbage dumping yard can finally hope to breathe some fresh air. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has asked Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited to complete the construction of the segregation and leachate treatment plants, compost units and scientific landfill facility …
While malaria is raging in the city and adjacent districts, dengue fever has also started to make its presence felt. As per official data, there are 31 confirmed and 30 suspected cases of dengue in Hyderabad as of July 4. Sources in the health department say dengue test facilities are …
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Srikumar Banerjee said here on Friday that nuclear power production was safe, given the stringent regulatory mechanism put in place. He was speaking at the 52nd convocation of Sri Venkateswara University after receiving an honorary degree. Dr. Banerjee called the nuclear industry the
Shoppers were in for a tough time on the first day of the ban on plastic bags of below 40-micron thickness in the city on Friday. At some stores and shopping complexes, customers were asked to pay extra for taking parcels in plastic bags of more than 40-micron thickness while …
Imagine eating groundnut that has the qualities of tomato and rice, and toor dal that has the traits of maize! As Hyderabad joins the race to produce genetically engineered food crops, moongphali will soon carry the goodness of tamatar and rice, while toor dal gets a boost with the nutritional …
On October 12, thousands of people living in tsunami-prone villages in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and 25 other countries in the Indian Ocean rim will be evacuated to safety. Tsunami sirens will be switched on in thousands of habitations, ships sailing in the Indian Ocean will be kept on high alert …
With the monsoon having arrived, the threat of water-borne diseases is looming large over the city with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board failing to supply potable drinking water to all citizens. Water samples collected from various localities in the city by the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), …
The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, on Thursday said the state government will thwart all the attempts to stall the Hyderabad Metro Rail project.
Officials of both States to discuss date of water release CHENNAI: A team of officials from the Water Resources Department and Chennai Metrowater visited their counterparts in Hyderabad on Monday to discuss the date of water release from the Kandaleru reservoir in Andhra Pradesh to Chennai. According to sources in …
Hyderabad Good food, old Telugu movies and handsome money is what 25 women at Pidiguralla town in the coastal district of Guntur were promised in return for vials of their blood. But what they had not bargained for was severe body ache and hospitalisation. The women, most of whom are …
It is a decade since work on the Harihar-Kottur railway line was started. Yet, starting rail services seems to be a distant dream on this key 68-km stretch. The railway line, work on which started in 2001-02, should have been operationalised in 2009. Hurdles created by farmers who are seeking …
The good old days of packing consumer items in vistari aaku (leaves) may well make a come-back after four decades thanks to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation banning the use of plastic carry bags within its limits from July 1. In the pre-plastic days, goods were carried in eco-friendly paper …
Even as top German scientists are baffled at the behaviour of the new strain of E. coli now creating havoc across Europe, a team of researchers from Hyderabad has taken up the task of decoding the superbug's genomic signatures that give it the killer instinct. The Hyderabad team is also …
As cities grow and create more garbage, disposal of the waste has become a big problem for municipal corporations around the country, including the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. So the trend to generate power from garbage, thus keeping cities clean, saving municipal bodies money, and increasing power capacity in a …
