Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
From the sky, the Garden City of Bangalore now looks more smoggy compared to other mega cities in the subcontinent, thanks to rising levels of tiny soot particles in the atmosphere from vehicle and industrial pollution. American and European mega cities appear cleaner over the past decade, while cities in …
New Delhi: Reacting to allegations that the refurbishment of its Nangloi water treatment plant was highly overpriced when compared to a similar project in Patna, Delhi Jal Board defended the project saying the two projects are not comparable “because of basic differences in the scope of the work, conditions, size …
Bihar government's ambitious Ganga Express-way project today suffered a major setback as none of the selected companies participated in the final bid. The State government has now ordered a review of this project. The state government envisioned this Rs. 2,224 crores worth project to provide 22 KMs long four lane …
The holy Ganga is a poisonous river today. It’s so full of killer pollutants that those living along its banks in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal are more prone to cancer than others anywhere else in the country, says a recent study. Conducted by the National Cancer Registry Programme under …
The holy Ganga is a poisonous river today. It’s so full of killer pollutants that those living along its banks in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bengal are more prone to cancer than others anywhere else in the country, says a recent study. Conducted by the National Cancer Registry Programme under …
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday filed five FIRs with regards to discrepancies in coal blocks allocation. "CBI files five FIRs for alleged cheating against five companies, private persons and officials," sources told Business Line. According to reports, the companies named in the FIRs were AMR Infrastructure, Vimmy …
In a piece of good news for the millions of power-starved in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday announced that he will not ask for votes in the 2015 Assembly elections if his Government fails to provide electricity to the villages. “I will not ask people to vote for …
Based on Gujarat’s town planning schemes, Ahmedabad’s Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) University has prepared a master plan for Patna’s town planning scheme. The draft, which has been approved in principle, will guide planned urban development in Bihar. AHMEDABAD: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar may have whipped up …
New Delhi: Days after he differed with NDA partners over the choice of the presidential poll nominee, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has managed to get the Centre to double the special assistance package to Rs 20,000 crore during the 12th five year Plan (2012-17). The state will get Rs …
Bihar has set out to match Mumbai with its own version of the Marine Drive. The 21.5km Ganga Path, coming up in Patna by June 2015, will be one of the country’s biggest public-private-partnership projects at an estimated cost of Rs 2,234.46 crore. The Bihar State Road Development Corporation will …
With only about 2,000 Gangetic river dolphins left in India, down from tens of thousands just a few decades ago, the Bihar government is planning to set up Asia's first research centre to strengthen conservation efforts to save the endangered mammal. An official in the chief minister's office said the …
The police has registered a case against former chief of Bihar BJP Gopal Narayan Singh for illegal mining in the forest areas of Rohtas district. Singh has been charged with illegitimate quarrying and under various sections of the Explosives Act as the police recovered a large quantity of explosives and …
In an unprecedented move, the Bihar Government has decided to involve farmers in preparing the agriculture road map of the state for the next 10 years. As per the decision of the Cabinet, the views of experienced and expert farmers would be incorporated in the roadmap, which is to be …
The last 15 days have seen the Nitish Kumar government deeply concerned about the presence of a tiger which has parked himself in a small riverine island created by the Gandak river just 20 km from the state capital of Patna. The tiger has traversed 300 km from the Valmiki …
The recent 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Sikkim, which claimed more than 100 lives, was different from most temblors that had rocked the Himalayan region. It did not occur on the well-known thrust faults formed due to under-thrusting of the Indian plate below the Eurasian plate as in 95 per cent of …
India’s densely populated cities with poorly designed buildings makes 68 per cent of our urban population vulnerable to earthquakes. “There are 344 towns which fall in the Zone 5 category (high risk category) making them amongst the most damage prone cities in the planet,” pointed out Shashidhar Reddy, vice-chairman of …
The Patna High Court has directed the Centre to set up a tribunal for the settlement of the Sone river water dispute between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, especially, on the question of water sharing from the Rihand basin. Rihand is a tributary of Sone. A division bench of the court, …
With the submergence of thousands of villages in nine districts in Bihar appearing inevitable due to an alarming rise in the water levels of the Sone and the Ganga, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday conducted an aerial survey to oversee the preparations for evacuation and relief distribution. “Teams of …
The state of food security delivery in India through the public distribution system is much lamented, with the government of India’s own estimates suggesting that only 27 per cent of expenditure on the PDS reaches intended beneficiaries. This has prompted suggestions that it may be worth considering replacing targeted PDS …
