Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
Fulfilling a long- pending demand of the people, the Uttar Pradesh Government has approved a mega project to link the Delhi Metro with Noida and Ghaziabad by 2010. Noida and Ghaziabad would be linked with Delhi by the Metro rail before the beginning of the Commonwealth Games in the National …
Fulfilling a long-pending demand of the people, the Uttar Pradesh Government has approved a mega project to link the Delhi Metro wit Noida and Ghaziabad by 2010. Noida and Ghaziabad would be linked with Delhi by the Metro rail before the beginning of the Commonwealth Games in the National Capital …
The Delhi Minister for Finance, Planning, Urban Development and PWD, Dr A. K. Walia, has disclosed that a huge amount will be spent for infrastructure development here before the commencement of Commonwealth Games 2010. The finance will be sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) schemes. Dr …
Apart from ambitious plans in the areas of transport, tourism, waste management and infrastructure, the Corporation has also set about tackling the problem of poverty with financial backing through the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). The Corporation has prepared a concept paper which details the living condition of …
Concerned over haphazard constructions and commercial structures coming up along the roads leading to ribbon development, the Himachal Pradesh government has issued fresh directions to disallow these as the activity has not just led to traffic problem but is also posing threat to community lives.
The world travel and tourism council has forecast that tourism will grow at a rapid rate of 8.8 per cent per year for the next ten years, the highest in the world and India's contribution is expected to be significant.
There may soon be no such thing as a free lunch for slum dwellers any more. Realising that there is gross misuse of the free houses under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority, Mumbai housing department is proposing an amendment in the rules wherein slum dwellers will have to make a contribution …
The wealth gap between China's cities and largely impoverished countryside could be wider this year than at any time since the late 1970s and may grow further, a top party official said in remarks published. Urban Chinese are likely to earn 3.3 times more on average than rural Chinese this …
Following the directions of the Delhi High Court to demolish the unauthorised properties in West Patel Nagar, MCD knocked down two such properties in the area flouting the sanctioned plan.
The clause under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) that state governments will have to shift control of civic services to Urban Local Bodies to qualify for funds for projects in the Capital has left the Delhi government in a fix.
As per 2001 population census 285.35 million people reside in urban areas. It constitutes 27.8% of the total population of the country. In post-independence era while population of India has grown three times, the urban population has grown five times. The rising urban population has also given rise to increase …
The Delhi Government has told the Supreme Court that it has identified seven corridors for plying high-capacity buses. In its submission, the Government claimed that these corridors would be completed by 2009. The first of the seven corridors between Ambedkar Nagar and Delhi Gate -- a stretch of 16 km …
Delhi University is all set to train students to lend a helping hand in times of a disaster. Under the guidance of Director General, Home Guards, Kiran Bedi, DU is introducing a short course on disaster management awareness. "Delhi is in seismic zone-IV and an earthquake could lead to devastation …
Astronomers peering through ground- and space-based telescopes have discovered what they believe is the birth of the smallest known solar system. Scientists found a tiny brown dwarf - or failed star - less than one hundredth the mass of the sun surrounded by what appears to be a disk of …
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is all set to make inroads in the neighbouring town of Ghaziabad. The DMRC has prepared a detailed project report for the extension of the Shahdara line to Ghaziabad via Sahibabad. In a major decision, the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) board has decided to …
Environmental experts and Delhi government feel the installation of Lambada systems to monitor catalytic converters in vehicles coupled with stringent measures to streamline and monitor the pollution testing centres hold key to minimise city's pollution caused due to vehicular emissions. The Supreme Court has already given a six-month time period …
By 15 December, the 2,000-odd squatters occupying parts of the Rabindra Sarobar land belonging to the railway will have to vacate their present habitation, the Division Bench of Mr VS Sirpurkar, Chief Justice and Mr Justice Ashok Ganguly of Calcutta High Court. Extending the time limit to vacate, which expired …
With the population growing, there is a remarkable rise in the quantity of municipal waste water. And to save the environment, already grappling with other pollutants, it is imperative to treat this municipal waste water (MWW), that too, at an affordable costs. According to experimental studies conducted by M N …
A year after the PM announced the setting up of a national rain-fed area authority, it has yet to be constituted. When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced the setting up of a national rain-fed area authority in his address to the nation on the Independence Day last year, it was …
Squatters at Rabindra Sarobar were directed today to submit memoranda stating their willingness to vacate railway land with their family members according to the conditions set by the state government directly before the Division Bench of Mr VS Sirpurkar, Chief Justice and Mr Justice Ashok Ganguly of Calcutta High Court …
