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 …
Mumbai: Senior BJP MLA Devendra Fadnavis has alleged that the government had conspired to hand over nearly 44 acres to Pratibha Industries, a single bidder for the water transport project proposed for Mumbai. DNA was the first to expose this report last week. Fadnavis said:
A large number of people in Guwahati city use the public transport system everyday to get to work etc. This paper aims at studying the characteristics of the existing public transport system in Guwahati city and identifying the problems and issues in the system.
This Report of the Standing Committee on Urban Development (2009-2010) deals with the action taken by the Government on the Recommendations contained in their Thirty Seventh Report (Fourteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject "Urban Transport" relating to the Ministry of Urban Development, which was presented to the Lok Sabha on …
MUMBAI: After two agencies, Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB) and Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), failed to start water transport on the eastern and western coasts of the city, the state government is now planning to hand over the development of water transport services to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development …
HALDIA, 19 JAN: As the navigability of the Hooghly river near Haldia Dock Complex (HDC) continues to be a matter of concern to the dock authorities, several industrial units, particularly power houses and steel plants in West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand who were dependent on Haldia for importing coal, have …
Asian carp leap out of the water in the River Illinois Harmful aliens: Asian carp leap out of the water in the River Illinois. A group of states led by Michigan is calling for the emergency closure of two locks leading to Lake Michigan The US Supreme Court was considering …
Inland waterways have played an important role in the Indian transport system since ancient times. However, in the decades after independence, the importance of this mode of transport has declined considerably with the expansion of road and rail transport. Nevertheless, there is a growing realization that inland water transport has …
To study the feasibility of coal transportation through waterways, a team of Dutch experts including two members of Netherlands Embassy visited the Haldia Dock Complex today and discussed the matter with senior port officials. The Dutch team comprising seven members will prepare a feasibility report on transportation of coal from …
To study the feasibility of coal transportation through waterways, a team of Dutch experts including two members of Netherlands Embassy visited the Haldia Dock Complex today and discussed the matter with senior port officials. The Dutch team comprising seven members will prepare a feasibility report on transportation of coal from …
Amid growing environmental concerns attached to the river linking project, an expert has come up with an "eco-friendly" method to connect the water bodies with grids so that states can share the resources according to their requirements. "Interlinking of Rivers project (ILR) is not viable in its present form. We …
MUMBAI: Environmentalists are breathing easy after the announcement of a further delay in the commencement of the Mumbai transharbour link connecting the island city to the mainland. The Rs 6,000 crore Sewri-Nhava Sheva sea link project had invited the wrath of the environmentalists as they felt it would hamper the …
Mumbai: Construction work on the Rs 7,000 crore trans-harbour project to connect Sewri with Nhava through a 22-km sealink is now expected to be taken up only next year. Thus, the project that was opened for bidding in 2005 has now been pushed into its record fifth year of delay. …
The environment department on Wednesday banned polluting vessels on state waterways after a prod from the Union government. Nearly 100 vessels that broke down and were left on the Hooghly, perennially polluting the water, will face penal measures if the ban is implemented. More than 50 of these vessels can …
Srinagar: Imagine the Dal Lake without its houseboats. If that left you with a sense of emptiness, get used to it. The future of the 1,200-odd houseboats, which have been a part of the famous water body in the heart of Srinagar for more than a century now, is under …
KOLKATA, March 10: Responding to a complaint lodged by an NGO, the sub-divisional officer of Diamond Harbour has asked the assistant engineer of the irrigation and waterways to initiate an inquiry into the alleged attempts of a person to encroach on a portion of an irrigation canal joining Mograhat and …
The Centre proposes to deploy four Cutter Suction Dredgers (CSD) and a Hydraulic Surface Dredger (HSD) on Brahmaputra river in addition to the ones currently operating. Four more CSD and one HSD units are under construction for deployment in the Brahmaputra River National Waterway, said Union Minister for Shipping, TR …
