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 …
GURGAON: Days after facing the embarrassment of repeated leaks in main water pipeline, Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has come up with a plan to overhaul drinking water infrastructure in the city. Apart from upgrading the existing pipes, work for which has already begun, HUDA will create a network to …
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 …
GURGAON: The six-km-long cycle track on Raahgiri route, including stretches connecting Huda City Centre to Golf Course Road and IFFCO Chowk crossing to Golf Course Road, will be ready within a week. "Gurgaonites might use the cycle track on next Sunday. I have suggested engineers to put a continuous red …
Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has taken measures to utilize methane gas produced at Dhanwapur sewage treatment plant to meet its electricity requirement. SDO B D Yadav said 1750kW power is needed to run the two STPs of 168 million litre per day (MLD) capacity. However, with the construction of …
GURGAON: In a city that is perpetually faced with a power crisis, turning to renewable sources of energy may seem like an obvious choice. But a scant few opt for it. A farmhouse on Old Delhi road, Gurgaon railway station and a retreat centre near Bilaspur Chowk have set a …
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has proposed a plan to construct an 8-km dedicated cycle track in the city. The track will begin at the HUDA City Centre Metro station and run along the one-way road through Galleria Market all the way to Golf Course Road. The civic body …
More than 70,000 metric tonnes of e-waste is generated in the Millennium City annually, but just 10 per cent of it is disposed in a safe manner. A group of environmentally conscious citizens in Nirvana Country, a residential township in Sector 50 with over 1,000 households, here has now taken …
A large number of professionals, students in Delhi and Gurgaon are taking to bicycles to commute short distances. They do it to stay fit and for recreation. But even as cycling clubs are mushrooming all over the city, cycling enthusiasts say they feel compelled to stick to cycling in groups …
GURGAON: The city's shrinking green cover has posed a serious threat, and environmentalists and city authorities are geared to make it greener this monsoon season by planting more trees. The Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has planned to plant nearly 50,000 saplings in the areas falling under its jurisdiction. A …
Gurgaon fell in love with Raahgiri when it was launched there last November. Now, it's Delhi's turn. The Delhi leg of Raahgiri will kick off on the evening of July 5 near Khan Market. Raahgiri is a unique concept to free up a section of the city's roads from traffic …
The residents of upmarket DLF Phase-III have been facing an acute shortage of water and power for the past few weeks. Some of the families are totally dependent on water tankers for their daily needs. Rita Arya, a DLF Phase-III resident, said it was a “living hell” with the taps …
Realtor inks pact with UK-based Aniron Solatricity and Azure Power India DLF has become the first real estate developer in the country to generate power by installing solar panels on top of its office buildings, a move similar to the experiment in Gujarat, where the state government has installed such …
The maximum temperature is expected to fluctuate between 40 and 44 degree Celsius in the next two days. There was no respite from the blistering heat in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 31.2 degree Celsius, three notches above normal. However, the weatherman has predicted dust storm …
The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon plan to set up feeder stations for birds inside the Biodiversity Park here has met with strong opposition from environmentalists and bird-watchers who call it an uncalled-for intervention with the ecology of the park. Opposing the move, the environmentalists argue that such feeder stations would …
City generates about 450 metric tonnes of waste daily The Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), assisted by some non-government organisations and citizens’ groups, now plans to rope in the hundreds of waste-collectors in the city to encourage waste segregation at source as part of its plan to de-centralise waste management. …
GURGAON: Water shortages in a city that has overflowing storage reserves may seem like a remote possibility. But such has been the city's fate this season. Although city authorities have successfully managed to augment the supply capacity, recurrent electrical faults affecting HUDA's treatment plants have effectively nullified the good work. …
The region's prime R&D; hub for solar technology will soon be made accessible to the general public. The Ministry for Renewable Energy is planning to set up a public awareness wing or an 'information centre' at the National Institute of Solar Energy's research facility, which was previously known as the …
Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday clarified that the stay on acquisition of land and issuance of any change of land use (CLU) licences to developers to build colonies in Gurgaon and the National Capital Region (NCR) area would continue till further orders. The HC on January 23 had …
GURGAON: Air pollution is now categorized as a public health hazard by the World Health Organization. This should be of particular concern to cities like Gurgaon, which is not only an industrial hub of the region but has also seen the number of vehicles on its roads increase exponentially over …
Haryana has asked the NCR Planning Board (NCRPB) to exclude three patches of land in Gurgaon and Manesar from the natural conservation zones in the regional plan. Of this, about 350 acres have been given to DLF for a recreation and leisure project, which is yet to come up and …
