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 …
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 …
LUCKNOW: The Sunday earthquake, which jolted almost the entire north India, has once again raised questions on the safety aspect of the city's multi-storied buildings. Lucknow Development Authority and Uttar Pradesh Housing and Development Board ( UPHDB) make earthquake resistance a mandatory criterion for a building. However, the authorities rarely …
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh felt low-intensity tremors after an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale jolted north India at around 6.15 pm on Sunday. No causality was reported in the state till reports last came in. The epicentre of the earthquake was in Sikkim. Unconfirmed reports said the earthquake measured …
New Delhi The country’s premier agri-research body ICAR is working on a scheme to increase agricultural productivity by providing exact information to farmers on the type of crops they should grow, fertiliser and water requirements through the use of GPS technology. Under the project, ICAR has collected global positioning system …
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research is working on a scheme to increase agricultural productivity by providing exact information to farmers on the type of crops they should grow, fertiliser and water requirements through the use of GPS technology. Under the project, ICAR has collected global positioning system (GPS)-based soil …
The financial capital of India, Mumbai, though one of the major job providers, ranks among the lowest in financial penetration, according to a report on urban indicators of the top 200 cities in India. New Delhi, too, figures in the bottom 10 on financial penetration. A quarterly report released by …
India and Japan are planning to set up a joint revolving fund of $9 billion to invest in the highly ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to announce formation of the fund in the Budget 2011-12.
New Delhi: Once the biggest recycler of electronic waste in the country, Delhi is now the biggest scrap market for it. The city gets over 2 lakh tonnes of e-waste from all over the country, which is stored, dismantled and sold, posing a huge health and environment risk to all …
Meerut: A new high-speed train route between Anand Vihar in Ghaziabad and Meerut has been sanctioned, officials said here on Thursday. The route, sanctioned at a meeting on Wednesday, has been surveyed by Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System (DIMTS) and will have a total of 14 stations with seven …
LUCKNOW: A day after Tuesday's violent protests by farmers in Agra, tension prevailed across trouble-hit areas in the western part of the state, which remained under heavy security deployment all through Wednesday. However, reports of aggressive protests by farmers originating from at least half-a-dozen other districts of western Uttar Pradesh …
Pranab Mukherjee NEW DELHI: In deference to the near unanimity among political parties against forcible land acquisition, the Centre on Tuesday assured the Lok Sabha that the interest of farmers would be protected and a comprehensive legislation formulated. Responding to the 55-minute discussion on the issue of the farmers' agitation …
LUCKNOW: In a fresh impetus to bettering urban infrastructure in major cities of the state, the government of India has named Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Kanpur, Meerut, Allahabad and Mathura as mission cities under the urban infrastructure and governance (UIG) scheme of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The seven …
LUCKNOW: In a significant development, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), on Monday, ordered 25 agro-waste based paper industries in the state to stop the process of chemical pulping, a move that could lead to closure of these units. Chemical pumping happens to be a crucial process under which a …
Union Minister of State, Rural Development, Pradeep Jain has written to his UP counterpart to highlight that not a single woman was issued a job card between January 2009 and December 2009 in six districts in the state namely Meerut, Agra, Aligarh, Rampur, Bijnore and Baghpat. He said this had …
Feasibility Study For System, DPRs For 2 Lines Ordered New Delhi: Much on the lines of the high-speed rail links between European cities, the National Capital Region (NCR) may soon get a common metro system covering Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan and UP. The government has ordered a feasibility study for the …
Over 1,500 farmers from 16 villages took part in a panchayat held outside the Greater Noida Authority office on Sunday to decide the future course of action in their protest against the state government
