BMC closure orders to over 150 units
Complying with the Bombay high court directivers to check and remove encroachments from along the Mithi river, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has issued closure orders to over 150 commercial units lubricant oil mixing , were found operating without licence.
AP, Dubai Govt in pact for Knowledge Corridor project
The Andhra Pradesh Government and the Department of Economic Development, Government of Dubai, have tied up to develop an outer ring road (ORR), a Knowledge Corridor and areas under the cluster development project. A memorandum of understanding was signed on Saturday by the State Government represented by the State Principal …
Clear Chandni Chowk area of encroachments: SC
The Supreme Court today ordered the Delhi Police to immediately remove all illegal hawkers and squatters from the historic Chandni Chowk. A bench of judges BP Singh and Arun Kumar gave the orders to remove hawkers from the area between Jain Mandir and Fatehpuri Mosque.The Apex court gave its direction …
Reservoirs essential for uplift: Prime Minister
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said water security was extremely critical for future growth and development of Pakistan and required construction of storage and distribution infrastructure. Talking to Technical Committee on Water Resources (TCWR) Chairman A G N Abbasi, who presented Committee's report to him, the Prime Minister said availability …
CM urges proper monitoring in model villages
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed has called for an adequate monitoring mechanism for executing development projects in the model villages announced by the government. So far foundation stones of 14 model villages has been laid in the state. Under the Prime Minister's reconstruction package, 119 villages in …
Encroachers grab 1,475 acres
While shortage of land is delaying the completion of its various housing projects, the DDA is losing several acres of its land to encroachers.According to sources in DDA, over 1,475 acres of DDA land has been grabbed by land encroachers across the city. Though the DDA claims it has created …
Indian eco-house wins Asia Pacific Holcim award
India today bagged and Acanowledgement Prize by Holcim Foundation for sustainable construction for its Chaupal eco house located in Delhi. Designed by green building design consultant. Ms Anamika Prasad, for industrialist Mr Satya Sheel, the project was chosen as an exploratory case study in the use of known environment technologies …
Maintenance of housing schemes, model villages to be formalised
On the directive of Minister, Ferial Ashraff, the National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) has commenced a special programme to formalise the maintenance activities in the existing housing schemes and model villages and expedite the completion of ongoing projects. NHDA Chairman, Parakrama Karunaratne with the Authority officials made an inspection tour …
Heritage building sealed off amid row
The Karachi Building Control Authority sealed off the Shikarpuri Market, a building protected under the Sindh Cultural Heritage Protection Act, in order to prevent anyone from causing damage to it. The tug of war between owners and tenants of the building, going on for the past few weeks, continued on …
Urban Development Year
The Gujarat Government will celebrate 2005 as 'Urban Development Year' with plans to undertake all-round development of cities with the aid of technology and people's participation. The decision was taken in Gandhinagar at a high-level meeting chaired by the Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi.
Shanghai is sinking, say experts
China’s largest and most populated city Shanghai, built on the marshy banks of the Huangpu river, is slowly sinking, though at a slower rate than before, a report said on Thursday. The modern metropolis is home to nearly 17 million people and although over exploitation of underground water is the …
Teesta hydel project gets green light
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved the Rs 1,061.38-crore Teesta low-dam hydel project stage-IV to supply power to West Bengal. It will have a generating capacity of 160 MW from its four plants of 40 MW each. The project will be completed in the next 48 …
First step towards linking rivers this week
The first step towards implementation of the much talked about Inter-Linking of Rivers programme will be taken IN nEW Delhi this coming Thursday with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the Ken-Betwa river link being signed by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Babulal Gaur and Uttar Pradesh Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.The …
Golden quadrilateral running six months behind schedule
As many as 447 national highway project are running behind schedule. Of these, 46 projects worth Rs 11,226 crore pertain to the golden quadrilateral (GQ). Apart from this, there are five projects worth Rs 1,678 crore under port connectivity, and 13 under the north south-east west (NSEW) worth Rs 1,276 …
Mumbai`s Shanghai plan has slum brakes
Even before the Centre and the state started drawing up plans to make Mumbai the Shanghai of India, the politics of slums has come to the centre stage. Last week, state chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh gave go ahead to the razing of illegal slums from various parts of the city. …
WB gives US $ 320M grant for rural roads, bridges
The World Bank (WB) is to provide a grant assistance of US dollars 320 million to His Majesty's Government for the construction of rural roads and suspension bridges during the next five years. This is the largest amount that WB has provided as grant assistance to Nepal. The amount will …
Italian delegation pitches for ties in urban development
A high-level delegation led by the Italian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Mr Pietro Lunardi, met the Union Minister for Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad. The delegation evinced a keen interest in sharing Italian know-how in waste disposal, urban transport, construction activities and water supply. Mr …
A garden to delight senses
The garden of five senses Said-ul-Ajaib is one garden in Delhi that would make Delhites proud .This garden has a solar park where visitors can drive solar charged vehicles.'The ministry of solar and renewable energy has given us Rs 1 crore to run this park, which is educative in purpose …
