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 a race between 100 cities picked up from states and union territories across the country, only 20 will start their 'smart' journey this financial year. The remaining 80, in the proposed 100 smart city plan, will join the club in two equal batches of 40 each in the following …
FARIDABAD: Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said steps are being taken to revive Badkhal lake here to once again attract tourists and a company has been tasked to with the job analysing the reasons behind the drying up of the water body. The lake is situated in Badkhal village …
The MCG's town planning department has identified categories of industries to be shifted out of residential areas. This follows a meeting between officials of the departments of urban local bodies with industries and commerce, held at Haryana Bhavan in Delhi on Saturday. A total of 2,515 units have been identified …
Sunday proved to be an exception, nationally, on the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) daily air quality index (AQI) list. Ahmedabad displaced Delhi in the rank to become the second city with a poor ambient air quality in the country. The AQI index defined the city's air quality to be …
After Delhi, Faridabad and Ghaziabad are the most polluted among NCR cities. This inference can be drawn from a study that is based on an air quality survey conducted by India's top pollution monitoring body, the Central Pollution Control Board, under National Green Tribunal's order. Both Faridabad and Ghaziabad have …
The HUDA chief administrator's office on Monday issued directions to administrators of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Rohtak, Hisar and Panchkula to establish special task forces to check burning of waste, including leaves, in the open. This follows National Green Tribunal's January 19 directive that also emphasized creation of a website to enable …
In a jolt to Haryana government and major realty players of national capital region (NCR), the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday stayed the Faridabad draft master plan 2031 that was recently notified by the state. A division bench headed by Justice Surya Kant passed these orders after hearing …
Large-scale antibiotic residues have been found in chicken samples lifted from Delhi and the National Capital Region. This unregulated use of antibiotics in the poultry industry could be contributing to growing resistance among Indians and their falling prey to a host of otherwise curable ailments, a new study by the …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) lab study found residues of antibiotics in 40 per cent of the samples of chicken that were tested. Large-scale unregulated use of antibiotics in the poultry industry could be contributing to Indians developing resistance to antibiotics and falling prey to a host of …
Seventy chicken samples from Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), tested by the Centre for Science and Environment, were found to be carrying traces of five antibiotics. Largescale misuse and overuse of antibiotics in chicken has lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in chicken itself. The CSE report …
The Rs 493-crore Ranney well water supply scheme, which is running several months behind schedule, has got a boost with the decision of the Faridabad MC authorities to seek a loan of around Rs 103 crore for expediting the project. The five-year-old project is likely to be completed by year-end. …
Delhi's air pollution measures like introducing compressed natural gas, building the Metro and moving polluting industries outside city limits have been praised universally. But evidence has now emerged that, since these interventions, areas bordering the city have been experiencing very poor air quality. As polluting industries, built-up area and population …
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the extension of metro rail from YMCA Chowk to Ballabhgarh in Faridabad. Rs.564 crore sanctioned An amount of Rs.564 crore has been sanctioned for the project. The construction will be done by March 2017. Speaking on the …
The groundwater level in the city and the district is on a steady downward curve perhaps due to the city’s heavy dependence on tubewells for harnessing of water sources. In spite of good rainfall over the past couple of years, the water table has receded to as low as 300 …
The quality of drinking water in the town seems to have hit a new low. There are reports of some reverse osmosis (RO) water filter manufacturers withdrawing the facility of warranty to consumers. The warranty condition is reported to have been made ineligible in localities where total dissoluble solvents (TDS) …
Departments Sit On Draft While Air Quality Gets As Bad As Beijing’s; No Check On Emissions There is now mounting evidence that Delhi’s air quality is comparable to, if not worse than, Beijing’s notoriously poor air quality. But, the second-generation action plan for Delhi’s pollution-—drafted to deal with the deteriorating …
Activists Send GPS Readings Of Cleared Patches & Photos As Proof, Suspect Developers New Delhi:Hundreds of trees have been reportedly felled in Mangar, a part of the Aravalis off the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway, over the past month. Though some trees are cut for fuelwood every winter, this year there has been …
Two deaths, 710 cases and still counting - dengue count is getting bigger in Haryana. Hospitals all over the state are flooded with patients reporting with fever. The recent spells of rain have compounded the problem of the Health Department in tackling mosquito-breeding while exposing poor sanitation in some of …
101 firms show interest in ‘realtor-friendly’ policy; max applications for Gurgaon projects The much-touted Affordable Housing Policy-2013, launched by Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on August 6, is set to make housing out of aam aadmi’s reach across the state, especially in major cities. With the housing policy fixing …
Ushering in a policy of affordable housing in Gurgaon and other prime areas of the state, the Haryana government plans to build 1.25 lakh flats under the first phase. The size and price of these flats will be decided by the government and allotment will be done through draw of …
