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 …
Hardly has the monsoon commenced and the roads have started to tear apart. As per recent information, the newly constructed road from Bhopal to Raisen has started deteriorating and the gravel and other materials used in its construction has come on the side of the road. The same fate is …
The pre-paid auto service is riddled with problems and needs to be reformed. While commuters prefer it for convenience and security, drivers are wary of it for many reasons TIMES NEWS NETWORK It was conceived as an indigenous solution for safeguarding commuters from being fleeced by autorickshaw drivers about 22 …
New Delhi: After years of being caught in red tape, the estimated Rs 340-crore Badarpur-Faridabad flyover may finally see the light of day. On Wednesday, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) awarded the contract to Hindustan Construction Company Limited for the 4.4-km elevated, signal-free corridor, which will be made …
In what is expected to mitigate the vehicular traffic woes on the busy Guwahati-Shillong Road to a considerable extent, the much-awaited earthquake-resistant flyover in city's Bhangagarh area was finally thrown open to public here this morning. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today formally inaugurated the 647.58-metre
Did the Nobel Prize committee make a mistake when it gave the 2007 Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former us vice president Al Gore? I wonder. My disquiet is not because the prize recognized and put climate change at the centre of global debate. It …
Despite objections by the Punjab Roadways Transport Corporation and roadways unions, the Punjab Government has approved a draft that will allow private buses to operate in Chandigarh. All the buses will be air-conditioned and will start from various cities in Punjab including Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar and Bathinda. Till now, only …
It is the failure or unwillingness of the authorities to encourage segregation of the slow and the fast moving traffic on the roads that has compounded the chaos on the roads -Tukoji R Pandit Anyone who keeps his eyes wide open instead of focusing his gaze narrowly would have anticipated …
Autorickshaws and private buses are responsible for the snarls on city roads, a Besu study has revealed. The study, commissioned by the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC), was conducted by the transportation engineering and planning wing of the civil engineering department under the leadership of Prof Sudip Roy. "There are over …
Pilot Stretch Cost About Rs 60 Cr, Cure More Expensive The state government is determined to continue its dreary plod along the BRT. It has asked the transport department and DIMTS to make it work at any cost, even consider options like constructing a Rs 200-odd crore flyover to buttress …
This Writ Petition arrays a range of legal concerns relating to the ongoing road widening programme in Bangalore and exposes that such actions are opposed to settled legal norms relating to management and conservation of urban greenery. In addition it is submitted that the road widening programmes are being advanced …
Residents of Panchshila Park in south Delhi have strongly opposed Delhi government's move to reopen the U-turn at Savitri Nagar T-point on outer Ring Road. The government had opened the U-turn last week to ease traffic congestion on the BRT corridor. According to residents in the area, the U-turn had …
A Singapore-based company made a presentation on a 43-km elevated road around the city at Writers' Buildings on Tuesday. The proposed ring road will start and end on Strand Road. Transport minister Subhas Chakraborty, finance minister Asim Dasgupta and senior officials watched the presentation. "The company gave us a clear …
A corridor from Peeli Kothi to Lothian Bridge to be built at a cost of Rs 75 crore Proposed in 2005 and shelved many times, the decongestion plan around Old Delhi Railway station may finally see the light of the day. Announced in the Budget 2007-08 as a part of …
The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has finally decided to complete work on a number of roads, including the 12-kilometre expressway linking Greater Noida to NH-24 in Ghaziabad. While 10.5 kilometres of the 12-kilometre expressway having been completed five years ago, a 1.5-kilometre stretch on NH-24 had been encroached upon. Now, …
SHOULD green lungs of the Capital like Siri Fort Sports Complex be allowed to be destroyed for just eight or nine days of Commonwealth Games?" The answer's no; and it came from the Supreme Court on Friday. Acting on apprehensions raised by advocate M L Lahoty that the proposed multi-level …
The Supreme Court today stayed the construction of a parking lot at Siri Fort Sports Complex as part of preparations for the Commonwealth Games 2010 on a plea filed by a morning walker who objected to the felling of trees for the project. A bench headed by Chief Justice K …
In a jolt to the preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered stay on construction of a parking lot near Siri Fort Sports Complex that threatened to gobble down 14 acres of green area. A bench headed by Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan asked the Delhi …
Five years after MPs protested against the viability of laying telecom ducts along national highways and got the project shelved, the National Highways Authority of India has revived the plan. The NHAI has invited bids for conducting a viability study for laying telecom ducts across 13,000 km of national highways, …
The Sheila Dikshit government on Monday received a pat on the back from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Speaking on occasion of the foundation stone laying ceremony of the 1,500-MW power plant in Bawana, the PM lauded the
The allocation for transport has been increased by nearly Rs 900 crore in this year's budget. But the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system which had featured prominently in last year's budget speech
