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 …
MUMBAI: An internal evaluation by the country's nodal AIDS body NACO ( National Aids Control Organization) has found non-governmental organizations in the city and parts of the state unable to meet key parameters to prevent spread of HIV or AIDS. The assessment rated most of their projects as 'failures'. At …
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been proven to catalyze both investments, for bridging investment gaps and improving efficiencies in delivery of services. The Government of India (GOI) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), through a pioneering PPP Initiative "Mainstreaming PPPs in India," have therefore been supporting selected state PPP cells in …
With unseasonal rains and hailstorms likely to cause heavy damage to Kesar mango crops, in various pockets of Marathwada in Maharashtra, growers are worried that they will not be able to meet their export targets. Unexpected showers lashed parts of the region last week. The current period is considered an …
Environment education in many schools across the country has moved beyond bookish knowledge and is helping shape bright, young green crusaders. As many as 60 of the nation
The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Tuesday imposed a total ,ban on the use of plaster of Paris (PoP) for making Ganesh idols, which pollutes water, thereby polluting the environment. The court ordered that Ganesh idols be made by using soil and natural colours. It warned that …
Almost 10 years after work started on the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) project, one of the biggest highway networks in the country, the 754-km stretch on Delhi-Kolkata road is almost complete, except for a railway overbridge (ROB) at Tundla in Firozabad, which would be ready in March.
Had there been a national ranking for greenness on campuses, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU) in Aurangabad would have notched a top slot. Under the first-ever commercial horticulture project implemented in a non-agricultural university, BAMU has grown around 7,215 trees on a swathe of 142 acres of university
THE Indian Railways has approached Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for setting up 1000 mw of captive nuclear capacity on its behalf. The proposal put forward by the Indian Railways includes setting up two units of 500 mw on railway land. Power generated from the plants will be used …
MUMBAI: The political crisis caused by the arrest of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu worsened on Monday. While Telugu Desam Party (TDP) activists observed a bandh in Andhra Pradesh to protest against the detention of their leader by the Maharashtra police, the state legislature was adjourned for the …
People living in and around Aurangabad were getting round the clock water supply through underground pipelines at a time when most cities in medieval India relied directly on wells, ponds and rivers. These conduits dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries transported water over long distances through gravitational pull …
Aurangabad municipal corporation sets an example aurangabad municipal corporation is the first municipal body in Maharashtra to adopt e-tendering for clearing and commissioning projects. All projects costing more than Rs 25,000 are cleared through e-tendering. The project, launched in May 2007, has saved the corporation close to Rs 2.50 crore.
