The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
KOCHI: It is estimated that by 2030, 70 to 80 percent of Kerala's population will be concentrated in the urban areas. Given this scenario, the need of the hour is to chart out a roadmap to improve urban infrastructure to accommodate the growing population, experts who took part in the …
We need to radically overhaul the existing, abused system of selecting concessionaires to build roads and the best way forward is to adopt bidding for present value of revenue, says Srivatsa Krishna INDIA, advised prudently by Dot Econ, one of the world
AHMEDABAD: The ambitious Ahmedabad Metro project will soon get on the fast track as surveys and the detailed project reports on the rail link, with Gandhinagar in the first phase, are in their final stages. "Studies are on whether an underground Metro line is possible in old areas of the …
To Pay Damages Of Rs 11.25 Crore For Not Meeting August 31 Deadline New Delhi: A day after the showcase Airport Express Line failed to get the mandatory safety clearances from the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS), Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has slapped penalties to the tune of …
The Sheila Dikshit Government has an ambitious plan to connect Anand Vihar in East Delhi to Dhaula Kuan in South-West Delhi in the third phase of Delhi Metro Rail network. The total length of this corridor will be 25.66 km. According to the proposal, 12.52 km of the line would …
PPPs (Public-Private partnerships) are fundamentally changing public procurement by allowing the private sector to exercise greater control over, and often ownership of, public assets, such as land, roads and airports.
This publication presents a strong argument for innovating urban planning to address the contemporary challenges of rapid urbanization and poverty. It illustrates how UN-HABITAT has worked in a variety of contexts to apply urban planning and design to contribute to sustainable human settlements development, slum prevention, post-disaster and post-conflict reconstruction, …
The objective of this policy is to ensure faster economic development employment generation by sustainable use of the resources available in the state. The policy says special attention on promotion of small and medium enterprises to avert the adverse impact of global recession on industrialization in Madhya Pradesh.
Mahesh Kulkarni / Bangalore September 28, 2010, 0:19 IST Set up in Belgaum, it will serve more than 150 SMEs supplying castings to automobile, textile and general engineering companies The Belgaum Foundry Cluster (BFC), India
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday approved the master plan of Amritsar at a meeting of Punjab Regional and Town Planning and Development Board.
Mumbai: Without stronger basic infrastructure, particularly better roads, water supplies, sanitation, electricity, information and communications technology and other essential services, developing countries will be hard-pressed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets, said Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Haruhiko Kuroda. The MDGs are eight internationally-agreed targets, set 10 years …
Slips to 51st position in the global business competitiveness index. Even as emerging markets in Asia showed impressive gains in global business competitiveness in 2010, India slipped two notches to the 51st position over the previous year due to poor health, education and infrastructure facilities. Among the BRIC nations
Slowing climate change requires overcoming inertia in political, technological, and geophysical systems. Of these, only geophysical warming commitment has been quantified. We estimated the commitment to future emissions and warming represented by existing carbon dioxide–emitting devices. We calculated cumulative future emissions of 496 (282 to 701 in lower- and upper-bounding …
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai September 9, 2010, 0:26 IST The signboard at Kopra-Panvel, about 35 km from the existing Mumbai airport at Santa Cruz, was put up with much fanfare in 2004 after the site was finalised for the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport. Six years later, time seems to …
THE Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) has decided to review the functioning of infrastructure ministries every quarter and suggest ways to meet targets. The first such review is likely to take place at Thursday
Minister for Tourism and Infrastructure Development Janardhana Reddy on Monday said the tourism department has proposed Rs 141.62 crore project to improve tourism infrastructure and add more facilities across eight districts in Mysore region. Tourism Minister Janardhana Reddy explaining the tourism projects at a meeting in Mysore on Monday. Regional …
Sabloo Thomas The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has given environmental clearance for the construction of a permanent campus for the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER-TVM) at Vithura. The clearance was given during the 88th meeting of the expert appraisal committee for building construction, coastal regulation …
