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 …
In periurban Hyderabad, India, leafy vegetables are increasingly grown along the Musi River and sold in urban markets. This agricultural biodiversity can significantly help urban and periurban farmers become more resilient to the impacts of such changes.
May 26: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has done nothing to remodel storm water drains to prevent flooding of low lying areas during heavy rains this monsoon. Kirloskar Consultants and Voyants Solutions, the two agencies that studied the storm water drain network in the core city and surrounding municipal areas, …
May 25: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is planning to encourage cluster housing to liberate congested areas such as Abids, Sultan Bazaar and parts of old city for development. A draft master plan for the capital prepared by the GHMC proposes many incentives for areas which take up cluster …
May 21: With the UPA and the Congress retaining power at the Centre and the state respectively, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority hopes to complete many infrastructure projects
May 21: Representatives of resident welfare associations in the city on Thursday told the Water Board that it is high time that citizens are involved in solving problems related with water supply and pollution. Representatives also discussed issues like overflowing drains, open manholes and leaking pipelines with the Board
May 19: Two persons who came from the US were admitted on Tuesday to the AP Chest Hospital for suspected swine flu symptoms. One of them is a two-year-old boy. The baby landed at Shamshabad airport with his parents on May 16. The parents admitted the boy to the Chest …
May 19: The Water Board (HMWS&SB;) swung into action on Tuesday following a Deccan Chronicle report about E. coli contamination in potable water in Marredpally and surrounding areas in the city. The officials collected water samples and told residents in the affected areas to report immediately to the Water Board …
A 23-year old youth belonging to Hyderabad was tested positive for the H1N1 strain of virus that causes swine flu. This is first confirmed case of swine flu in the country. The test was conducted by the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) in New Delhi and the report was …
Two co-passengers of the 23year-old Hyderabad resident, who had come from the US and was detected to be infected with Influenza A(H1N1), commonly known as the swine flu, were on Monday put under observation in a government hospital in Hyderabad.
May 18: The Chief Minister, Dr Rajasekhar Reddy, on Monday said the severity of the Bholakpur incident could have been reduced if officials had acted promptly. Peeved at the indifference of the officials, Dr Reddy asked them to get back to work.
May 18: E. coli contamination of drinking water has spread to new areas in the city because of the laxity of the Water Board and the GHMC. Samples from Marredpally, Addagutta and Azad Chandrasekhar Nagar have shown sufficiently large presence of E. coli bacteria, indicating mixing of human excreta with …
A day after India confirmed its first case of A/H1N1 influenza virus, government tightened the screening process of passengers from flu affected countries. Authorities had on Saturday confirmed that a 23-year-old IT student in Hyderabad had tested positive of carrying the virus. On Sunday authorities also admitted a mother-son duo …
Hyderabad, May 15: The APSRTC has decided to introduce 1,500 low floor buses in Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam. The low floor buses are safer since they have no steps, have large sliding windows, handle bars, pneumatic doors and more space for standing passengers. They are expected to improve accessibility and …
May 14: The report submitted by the Institute of Preventive medicine (IPM) after testing 10 samples said that none of the samples tested positive. This report was submitted to the state health officials on Thursday.
May 13: Health authorities on Tuesday said one passenger, who had disembarked at the Hyderabad airport, has been referred to health facility for suspected H1N1 influenza virus. The authorities, meanwhile, maintained no positive flu case has been identified in the country so far. Authorities said as an advance planning, National …
May 13: In all, 56 fresh cases of diarrhoea and vomiting were reported at the government hospitals in the city on Wednesday. Among them, only four patients at Gandhi Hospital and one at Osmania Hospital are from Bholakpur, said the health officials. The new patients came from places like Moula …
May 13: The Chief Minister, many ministers and IAS officers in the Secretariat do not trust the water supplied by the Water Board. Instead, Rs 20 lakh is spent every month to buy them bottled water. The water from the exclusive pipeline laid by the Water Board is used for …
May 13: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has been sitting over two dozen other Bholakpurs in the city. As many as 25 slums at various places in the city are highly vulnerable to diarrhoea and gastro enteritis (GE) cases. Every year, several cases of diarrhoea and GE are reported …
