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 …
Gurgaon: Nearly 12 kids were taken to various hospitals of the city after they consumed seeds of Jetropa plant here today. Children of Basai Enclave colony were playing in the garden of their colony and swallowed the seeds by mistake. They are between seven and 10 years of age. The …
People of the millennium city seem to be excited about the dream car Nano, which reached showrooms on Wednesday. The car has turned out to be the most awaited car, as a large number of people turned up at the only showroom where the small wonder was on display.
Gurgaon: To discourage pedestrians from crossing the busy Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway, the concessionaire DSC Limited started a free bus ferry service between Shankar Chowk and IFFCO Chowk on Wednesday. The move comes after the NHAI recently put median fencing on the Expressway on which several have died and over 50 injured …
People of the millennium city have a reason to rejoice. They will now get CNG without standing in long queues. Like Delhi, the city will also get the gas directly by the pipeline from today. Keeping up its promise, Haryana Gas Distribution Company has also reduced the price of the …
SAVE THE Aravallis: a slogan that like so many others stirs little response until the cost of ignoring it hits home: no electricity, no water, no construction material and, worst of all, no rain and the daytime temperature perpetually above 50 degrees Celsius. The Aravallis are the oldest mountain range …
New Delhi: Haryana government has finally decided to constitute flying squads to check non-forest activities like construction of farmhouses and residential colonies on forest land in Aravalis. The decision comes in the wake of Gurgaon forest conservator RP Balwan reporting largescale violation of forest area. The teams to be headed …
Gurgaon: The Department of Environment and Forest, Haryana, has issued a letter to the Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (PCCF) to take serious note of all non-forest and illegal mining activities taking place in the Aravallis. In the letter, the Environment and Forest Minister Kiran Chaudhary has directed S K …
Gurgaon: Even after the Supreme Court has imposed a ban on mining in the Aravallis in the districts of Gurgaon, Faridabad and Mehwat in Haryana, the Conservator of Forests, R P Balwan found hundreds of trucks carrying stones from illegal mines in Mehwat on Thursday. The team tried to stop …
Chandigarh: The auction of Sirohi and Khori Jamalpur mines is expected to take place as scheduled on Tuesday as the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday refrained from passing an interim order to stop it. However, the court issued notice to the state government on a plea filed by …
State Wants Mining For Two More Years, But Not Keen To Extend Lease TIMES NEWS NETWORK Chandigarh: The state government clarified before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday through an affidavit that it wanted mining to continue for another two years in Sirohi and Khori Jamalpur, the two …
Having excluded union territory-turned states Delhi and Goa from the overall state competitiveness rankings, it was impossible to ignore the National Capital Territory (NCT) Delhi or rather the bigger whole that is the National Capital Region. The NCR is unique because of the intensity of population and its huge purchasing …
Damdama (Gurgaon): The last major natural lake in the NCR is up for sale. While locals claim that indiscriminate mining and poor rainfall has caused great damage to Damdama Lake and jeopardised their future water needs, another story is unfolding gradually. In the past few years, many residents of Roz …
Gurgaon: Around 20 villages in Mehwat district near Gurgaon are continuing with illegal mining despite a ban by the Supreme Court and repeated reminders by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, conservator forest R P Balwan said after visiting these villages on Wednesday. According to Balwan, he found mining activities …
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE, VERTICAL TOWNS DOMINATE URBANISATION DISCOURSE Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI India is all set to establish a niche for itself in the growing green infrastructure marketplace and vertical townships. With the shrinking availability of land for residential development in the northern India and increasing demand for residential space, vertical …
Iqbalpur village of Gurgaon district has become the first Haryana village covered 100 per cent by solar home-lighting systems. Deputy Commissioner Deepti Umashankar handed over a solar home-lighting system to the 201st customer of the village at a programme organised here today. The village has achieved this distinctive status with …
New Delhi/Gurgaon: As more and more people invade the forests in Aravali area, leopards are being forced to come out in the open. The consequence have been fatal for the big cats. In the last year, three leopards have been killed in Gurgaon and neighbouring Nuh. One leopard was killed …
Gurgaon: A leopard and her two cubs had come under the wheels of a vehicle and were injured near Manesar last week. The reason for the accident, apart from the immediate cause, is the rapid pace of development around Gurgaon that has deprived several animals and birds of their natural …
