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 …
Aug. 27: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) has decided to hike the price of the water supplied through tankers. The Water Board has constituted a committee to examine the rise in expenditure involved in water supply due to the rise in diesel prices and suggest the …
One week, 17 deaths and over 1,000 confirmed cases. You can count the days on your fingers, but not the victims of the new public health menace -the H1N1 flu. "Its speed is without precedent," says Dr Randeep Guleria, professor of Internal Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical …
Aug. 23: The city-based National Geophysical Research Institute has set up a geothermal climate change observatory at Choutuppal near here. The observatory can find and record warming and cooling of the earth in the last 300 years, apart from giving data on the meteorological conditions. The observatory
Hyderabad, Aug. 18: A day after the heavy rains, complaints of frequent power cuts poured in from across the city on Tuesday. The GHMC received a complaint of rainwater stagnation from Siddique Colony in Secunderabad. The GHMC team arrived in the evening and started pumping out water. At least a …
Aug. 9: Hyderabad is the worst affected among seven Telangana districts, failing to get any rain in the last week, according to the Indian Meteorological Department
Aug. 4: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has failed to construct 27,379 flats for economically weaker sections though three years have passed since the project was cleared by the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. These flats were sanctioned with Rs 1 lakh as the unit cost in 2006. However, …
Aug. 1: For the first time in the last five years, a majority of municipalities in the state are facing severe drinking water scarcity. Only 130 out of 1,128 mandals in the state have received normal rainfall during this monsoon season signalling the onset of a major drought. The Chief …
July 26: The project to bring Godavari water to the city is likely to be delayed as the water board does not have the money to execute the project. The water board sought over Rs 1,100 crore for this year for the project, but the government allotted it only Rs …
July 26: The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, has given the green signal to switch over to the CNG transport system in order to stem vehicle pollution in Hyderabad. Dr Singh agreed to the Chief Minister
July 23: Twenty residents of Vinayaknagar near Malkajgiri have been suffering from fever and stomach ache after drinking contaminated water, which was supplied in the area for the past two days. No cases of diarrhoea or other water-borne diseases were reported from the area. The victims went to Fever Hospital …
July 22: The Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM) has reported that water supplied by the Water Board contains 160 times more bacterial contamination than permitted. The IPM tested water at several points and reported that bacteria like E. coli were found in
Hyderabad, July 22 The Andhra Pradesh Environment Impact Assessment Authority has issued environmental clearance for the proposed common effluent treatment plant (CETP) planned at the Fab City Special Economic Zone at Maheswaram near Hyderabad. The Fab City SPV (India), a subsidiary of Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) and IL&FS;, …
Hyderabad, July 19: Five children were rushed to Yashoda Hospital in Somajiguda after being administered anti-typhoid vaccines by a service organisation on Sunday. According to doctors and parents, the children were administered vaccines in
July 15: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Wednesday sought another Rs 10,000-crore from the Centre for the development of infrastructure and civic amenities in Greater Hyderabad. He requested the Union urban development minister, Dr S. Jaipal Reddy, to release the money under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban …
An 80-km stretch of the 160 km of Outer Ring Road will be ready by the year-end and the rest of the project by 2012. The Andhra Pradesh Government is considering a proposal to take up modernisation of drainage system in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) which will entail …
Firm declares 2-day holiday in one of its satellite offices HYDERABAD: A two-day holiday was declared in one of the satellite offices of Google India in Hyderabad, after a contract employee tested positive for swine flu on Tuesday. Alarmed over the possibility of the virus spreading, Google has asked all …
July 7: Garbage piled up at several places in the city as the strike by some garbage lifting workers of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) entered the second day on Tuesday. Over 1,000 metric tonnes of garbage remained uncleared on the second day of the strike. The talks between …
July 7: Though the state government had plans to allot over 42,000 flats to the poor before the GHMC polls, the corporation has been able to complete only 17,000 flats. However, of the total 17,000 flats completed, almost 12,000 were allotted before the Assembly elections to beneficiaries mostly from Ranga …
