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 …
HYDERABAD: And yet another day begins to a sunny morning and no rainfall despite the southwest monsoon having hit the west coast. Which makes today an even more important day to mark as it points to serious issues that need to be addressed. The World Day to Combat Desertification, as …
HYDERABAD: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) commissioner Somesh Kumar has directed housing department officials to prepare detailed project reports (DPRs) on two-bedroom houses for weaker sections in upcoming projects. The commissioner held a review meeting with officials of the engineering wing on upcoming housing projects in Greater Hyderabad on Thursday. …
Hyderabad: If the GHMC’s boast of developing the city into a world-class one is to come true, it must start at the bottom, with better management of garbage and provisions of adequate garbage bins across the twin cities. Currently, for the 625 sq km area of the municipal corporation, there …
Residents of surrounding circles of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) can hope to get water supplies on a par with the inhabitants of the core city by next summer. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) has stepped up its efforts to improve distribution network in nine GHMC …
Hyderabad: As the state was focused on election results on May 16, the AP Pollution Control Board, which is being divided by June 2, was busy issuing permits to polluting industries. Against the normal 35-40 permits a month (consent for establishments CFE) and (consent for operation CFO) to polluting industrial …
Hyderabad: Three more acres of the Ramammakunta lake has fallen prey to concretisation with a four star hotel of 13 floors being constructed on the buffer zone of the lake. Worth Rs 60 crore, this three acre land falls in Survey No. 91, near the National Institute of Tourism and …
Hyderabad: Over the past few months, the dust levels in the city have gone up two times above the normal limit, it has been revealed. The area around Paradise recorded the highest value of 160 micrograms/m3, while the permissible level is around 60 micrograms/m3. Officials have blamed election campaigns across …
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Metro Rail’s “model station” in Uppal, which is in the final stages of completion, will be thrown open to the public in July to seek their feedback and suggestions and make changes accordingly. Lifts, escalators and staircases are being built at each of the 66 stations along the …
Hyderabad: Residents of Kantedan and civil societies are questioning why citizens should pay for treatment of effluents being generated by industries. Currently, a five MLD sewage treatment plant functions at Noor Mohammad Kunta lake maintained by public bodies. However, the treatment plant is ineffective as the industrial effluent needs a …
Hyderabad: Nothing has been done to implement the government order from the industries department to relocate industrial clusters within the city out of the Outer Ring Road owing to the state’s division. The GO, passed in early 2013, was seen as a breather by the affected residents living around the …
Once regularised, these connections would generate a monthly revenue of Rs 3 cr to the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB;) has received 2,000 applications under the ‘Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS)’ for the regularisation of illegal water connections and a …
Over 180 trees are being removed from the Erramanzil government quarters area, where the parking circulation area is being developed by the Hyderabad Metro Rail Ltd. for Metro Rail station. These trees are said to be more than two decades old. “More than 100 trees are being translocated to places …
The Botanical Garden lake’s bund was damaged, the sluice and the weir dismantled and removed as two earthmovers of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation dug into the lake and completely filled it with mud and boulders in the name of road widening on Wednesday. The revenue department, which owns the …
Statement of the Minister of Environment and Forests in response to Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 275 for 10 February 2014, asked by Dr. Sanjeev Ganesh Naik, Shri Sanjay Dina Patil regarding noise pollution. Minister Of Environment And Forests (Dr. M. Veerappa Moily) in response to the question stated that …
Hyderabad, where one-third of the country’s drugs are manufactured, is unfortunately being referred to as the “city with the most polluted lakes”, thanks to the pharma industry. Over 300 bulk drug units in and around the city limits are violating the safe discharge norms of effluents. Topping the list of …
Hyderabad: City entomologists have expressed concern over the dwindling number of butterflies in the state. Considered as the indicators of a healthy eco-system, the number of butterfly species have come down gradually from 116, as recorded last in October 2012, to just 35 this year. Post monsoon is considered very …
There has been no let-up in the burning of garbage across the city despite several concerns raised by activists about its adverse effects on the environment and the health of people. Civic officials in the past had promised action against the municipal workers burning solid waste. However, mounds of garbage …
A lethal combination of cold temperature and the increasing level of dust in the city due to bad roads and vehicular emissions are creating respiratory problems in children. Private hospitals in the city claim that since the last one week, they are seeing four children every day with breathing problems. …
Hyderabad: Notwithstanding the strikes and financial troubles, the Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation asserted on Thursday that it wanted to go ahead with its development schemes and announced the sanction of 737 new buses, under the JNNURM scheme, to be used in the four major cities of the state. Of …
Dandiya nights are back and so are increased noise pollution levels thanks to the loudspeakers dotting the city blaring away. According to the latest data recorded by the AP Pollution Control Board, the decibel levels have become considerably higher than the permissible limits set by the PCB. Decibel levels recorded …
