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 …
Standing in his private water reservoir—the quality doesn’t seem to need any certification— is a man who doesn’t have to wake up at odd hours when the municipality supplies water. He doesn’t need to deepen his borewell every year. His tryst with water independence began in 1995, when supply to …
June 24: Swine flu claimed the life of one more person, a woman from Mahbubnagar, in a city hospital on Thursday, taking the toll in the current spell of infection to three. K. Vani, 27, wife of Naveen Kumar from Mahbubnagar, was admitted in a corporate hospital in the city …
Hyderabad, June 14: The number of vehicles plying on city roads increases every day, far outstripping the number of parking spaces that are required. Greater Hyderabad is short of hundreds of parking lots making street parking the only option. The GHMC and traffic police have jointly identified 160-odd paid parking …
June 10: Elected representatives including MPs, MLCs and MLAs from the city on Thursday accused officials of the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) of failing to stop polluted drinking water from being supplied to the city. They also alleged that the Board was giving wrong figures on …
Hyderabad, June 8: Final touches are being given to the revised master plan for core city that covers the 172-sq-km area of the erstwhile Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad spread across the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has almost completed incorporating changes in the …
Hyderabad, May 31: With the rise in temperature and water contamination in various areas, as many as seven cholera cases have been reported in the city since the beginning of the year. Of these cases, five patients were treated at the Fever hospital in May and were later discharged. Recently, …
Hyderabad, May 18: A fight over jurisdiction has resulted in neither the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) nor the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) clearing the many trees that fell in Sunday
Hyderabad, May 14: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has got Rs 105 crore for implementation of the Godavari drinking water project and for taking up works on execution of sewerage master plan in Greater Hyderabad. The state government on Friday released the amount for the first quarter …
Vinod Thomas/Ronald S. Parker The Secret Lake,once a main drinking water source for the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, is shrinking due to encroachers dumping debris onto the lake bed. Photo: Mohammed YousufThe Secret Lake,once a main drinking water source for the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, is shrinking due to encroachers …
BS III, II fuel availability causes confusion in 13 cities. Murali Gopalan One month into the new clean fuel regime finds the auto sector struggling with vehicle supply schedules and facing the prospect of stocks not being registered in metros with tighter emission norms. Effective April 1, 13 cities moved …
April 28: SMRT Corporation, the pioneer in public transportation in Singapore, has sent proposals to develop metro rail projects in the state including the Hyderabad metro rail project. SMRT proposes to take up the projects based on a Build-Operate-Transfer mo-del. The Singapore metro is one of the few metro rail …
April 28: Unregulated traffic, uneducated drivers and lack of infrastructure, among other things, have created a state of near lawlessness on our roads. A cohesive traffic management plan is unknown. The city traffic police come up with piece-meal solutions which lead to no real improvement on the ground. Every new …
Hyderabad, April 27: Walkers beware! City parks that are considered to be the lungs of the city are not as pristine as we would expect. They are recording respirable suspended particulate matter (RSPM) and total suspended particulate matter (TSPM) above permissible levels. If you are not breathing easily as you …
Hyderabad, April 27: Unable to sustain daily drinking water supply as promised, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board quietly reverted to alternate day supply in several areas of the core city. Denizens of these localities were shocked as authorities discontinued the supply without any notice. Paradoxically, water supply …
Hyderabad, April 26: Hyderabadis are in danger of being affected by waterborne diseases as more areas in the twin cities are receiving contaminated water, thanks to the apathy of the water board. The Institute of Preventive Medicine, which found only 10 water samples contaminated with E.coli in February, has recently …
