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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

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 …

Call to increase agricultural output

Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has laid emphasis on getting remunerative prices for agricultural produce to farmers in view of rising prices of farm inputs, such as seeds, pesticides, fertilisers and fuel, and called for bringing together the MGNREGS and farmers to help augment the agricultural output. Addressing a national …

Jaipur to hold farmers' convention

A national convention of farmers and agricultural scientists to be organised here this Saturday will highlight innovative practices and scientific research and development in the agriculture sector for enhancing crop yield, improving seed varieties and scaling up soil productivity. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Chief Ministers Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan …

Fresh roadblocks in ring road project

JAIPUR: The new Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Bill 2011 might pose fresh roadblocks for the ring road project. As the state government has not taken possession of the acquired land for the 47-km proposed road project, the Ring Road Sangarsh Samiti leaders is all set to organise camps …

Concern over misuse of antibiotics

South-East Asia Region Health Ministers meet in Jaipur Meetings of the Health Ministers of South-East Asian Region (SEAR) and the 64{+t}{+h}session of the regional committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) opened here on Tuesday with a call to the world to wake up to the challenges posed by overuse …

Govt to strictly monitor land use changes

JAIPUR: To ensure that the land use is not changed by the owners who have been allotted the plots on concessional rate and to keep a check on encroachments, the urban development and housing department will appoint an independent agency or conduct a third party inspection regularly. "The groups will …

Ring road work: Farmers plan to boycott camp today

Ambiguity looms large over the ring road project in the city. Even a month after the official date of commencement, people's dream for better connectivity still remains on paper. JDA officials claim that half of the problem was already solved after the empowered committee accepted the farmers' demand and said …

JDA accepts farmers’ demands on ring road

JAIPUR: The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has accepted the demands of farmers during an empowered committee meeting on Tuesday. Farmers supporting the proposed ring road project are happy as their demands were pending with the state cabinet for a long time. "The JDA has accepted farmers' demand that the lease …

Ring road: Farmers demand jobs

JAIPUR: Dissatisfied with the government proposal on the Ring Road project, the Ring Road Sangarsh Samiti put forth its alternate demand on Sunday, which could make it difficult for state government to start the project. The farmers have demanded a government job for one family member of the farmers whose …

Rajasthan water audit to end by Oct. 2

A unique “water audit” exercise in Jaipur, Ajmer, Pali and Bhilwara towns of Rajasthan for efficient management of drinking water is likely to be completed by October 2. The audit is set to evolve the much-needed balance between demand and supply and improve the delivery of water to consumers. State …

Ring road issue: JDA-farmer tussle continues

JAIPUR: The tussle between farmers protesting against excessive land acquisition for the ring road project and the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) continued on Thursday. The Jaipur Development Commissioner (JDC) Kuldeep Ranka, said, "Negotiations between the Sangrash Smaiti and the departments are on. At our previous meeting we discussed a few …

Jaipur Municipal Corporation: All brawl & no work?

If sanitation and civic infrastructure have a role in determining whether a city is world-class , then Jaipur will certainly fail the test. In fact, for a city which lacks even basic approach to sanitation, such classifications are still a distant dream. The residents had several hopes when they elected …

Ring road project will be beneficial, says farmers’ group

JAIPUR: Farmers supporting the ring road project on Wednesday met principal sectreary (urban development department) G S Sandhu at Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) office here to seek a solution to the row. "Unlike the Sangarsh Samiti, our demands are very reasonable and there are many demands including two new demands …

Ring Road project: Framers to file PIL

JAIPUR: The problems for the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) Ring Road project sees no end as the farmers, who surrendered their land and had taken reservation letters from the authorities, will now file a public interest litigation (PIL) on Tuesday. Ring Road Sangarsh Samiti, president, Badri Prasad Sharma, said, "We …

To Allow Land Possession After Demands Are Met

JAIPUR: Farmers in the state are planning to put a spanner in the state government and the Jaipur Development Authority's (JDA) plans to start the 47-km Ring Road project on scheduled time without "resolving" their demands. The farmers whose land have been acquired are now gearing up to stop the …

New destination for Pink City tourists

JAIPUR: Tourists will now have a new destination in the Pink City. Laced with promises of a near Sariska or even a Ranthambore-like experience sans the distance and the cost, the state forest department will shortly be inaugurating a new jungle safari at the sprawling Nahargarh Biological Park on the …

JDAs Ninder housing project lands in trouble

JAIPUR: The Jaipur Development Authority's (JDA) dream to launch its biggest housing scheme at Ninder fall flats as the authorities are facing problems in acquiring land, a majority of whom are private land owners. In December 2010, the JDA had proposed this scheme on 1,100 bighas of land at Ninder …

Over 4L litres water went waste in city

JAIPUR: At a time when Pink City is facing acute scarcity of drinking water, lakhs of litres were wasted on Sunday when a water tank valve failed around 7.30 am at Sector 8 of Vidhyadhar Nagar. The tank supplies water in Sectors 6, 7 and 8. Public Health Engineering Department …

One more succumbs to swine flu in stat

JAIPUR: Another swine flu death was reported in the state on Sunday. An 18-year-old man, resident of Karauli district, died of the disease. A quack in Karauli district was responsible for his slowly bleeding to death. This is the second consecutive swine flu death in the past two days. Earlier, …

The uncomfortable nexus: water, urbanization and climate change in Jaipur, India

The report is organized into three major sections. A detailed analysis of migration and settlement patterns in Jaipur’s urban and peri-urban areas is discussed first, to provide context to the overall water supply situation. This section concludes with a brief summary of the major implications of migration for Jaipur’s urbanization …

Recharged Bisalpur dam to end water woes

JAIPUR: City residents facing the shortage of drinking water have a good news as rains over the past couple of days increased the level of water in Bisalpur dam, which is a key source of drinking water. The water level was recorded at 306.45 metre on Monday. Around two days …

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