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 …
HYDERABAD: The AP government has decided to set up its own smart cities even as the Centre is seized of the ambitious plan to create 100 smart cities across the country. The AP smart cities will be independent of the Centre's proposal to create modern infrastructure in select cities and …
A magnet city in Gwalior, meant to ease Delhi's population burden, fails to live up to the hype. • “We have all the infrastructure in place [to make west Gwalior a smart city], but a fresh impetus is urgently needed”- Jai Singh Kushwaha, former chairman, Special Area Development Authority In …
In a bid to recast the urban landscape of the country to make urban areas more livable and inclusive besides driving the economic growth, the Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today approved Central government spending of about Rs 1 lakh crore on urban development under two …
Also, 500 cities will soon be rejuvenated The Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s most favoured projects — 100 smart cities spread across the country — and a new urban renewal mission named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee, replacing the existing one named after Jawaharlal Nehru, …
NAGPUR: The Orange City — one of the cities selected to be developed as a smart city — has many shortcomings. Sample this: City is supplied 640 million litres per day (MLD) water supply but generates only 345 MLD of sewage. Only 40% of the city has underground sewage network …
The Modi Government's flagship 'smart cities' scheme will be rolled out from next month, Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday. "The Government is in an advanced stage of consultations, which will be over by the end of this month. Next month, we will roll out the much …
After Cyclone Hudhud pounded India's southern port city of Visakhapatnam last October, snapping bridges, swamping farmland and wrecking fishing boats, many breathed a sigh of relief. The lives of tens of thousands of residents had been spared as a result of a well-rehearsed mass evacuation to shelters - a lesson …
The smart city project of the Central government is another anti-farmer action similar to the anti-people Land Acquisition Ordinance, said Central executive committee of peasant’s organization All India Kishan Mazdoor Sabha (AIKMS). Leaders of the AIKMS who had got together for its two day central executive committee meeting in Berhampur, …
Taking forward the agreement signed, India and the United States on Tuesday decided to constitute three task forces for the setting up of as many smart cities; the task forces would focus on city-specific features, project requirements and appropriate revenue models for enabling flow of investments. The decision was taken …
For parents who live in the nine million-strong industrial city of Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province, dropping the children off at school is no longer a chore. Starting this year, the Zhengzhou Yuntong bus company-one of the main suppliers of school buses-launched a project that cities across China are …
Finally, and thankfully, realisation is steadily gaining ground that India needs to do something about its cities.Desi cities have suffered for many decades from misguided prioritisation advised by the leftist and socialist intelligentsia, and followed by Nehruvian politicians. All great civilisations have grown, prospered and died with their cities. Indians …
People of 45 districts in Bangladesh, are at risk of contracting kala-azar as the fly-borne disease breaks out in different parts of country in recent times, found a study conducted by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR-B) and Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital. Read more in …
