Urban Habitat

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding felling of trees within the Agra district, Uttar Pradesh, 23/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Jagan Prasad Tehriya Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 23/05/2025. The applicant has alleged large-scale illegal felling of green trees within the Agra district, Uttar Pradesh. The application revealed instances of illegal tree felling at Fatehabad, Sadar, Kiraoli and Agra …

Mumbai will be mapped & tracked

MUMBAI: Sting may have famously penned the song 'Every breath you take, every move you make...I'll be watching you' in the 1980s, but it's Mumbai's town planners who are humming the tune now. With the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully placing five satellites, including CARTOSAT-2B, in the earth's orbit …

Mini forest to come up at ITO chungi

Games In Mind, Forest Dept To Plant 8,000 Native And Ornamental Species New Delhi: It

Subsidence threat in south Kolkata

KOLKATA, 8 July: The state government's shortsightedness may result in disaster in vast areas of south Kolkata surrounding Rashbehari that face threats of caving in. Experts say that if there is subsidence, the magnitude of the disaster will be too great for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to manage. Besides, …

BRT must for better traffic management, says Sheila

Overwhelmed by success of the BRT corridor in the Capital, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said the Government would go ahead with the project.

Zonal plan to guide city development policies

BHUBANESWAR: The Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) of Bhubaneswar region is done. It's time for the Detailed Zonal Planning which will get underway soon. The capital region, or the Bhubaneswar Development Plan Area (BDPA) as it is called, has been divided into 14 special zones under CDP. Digital maps of each …

That sinking feeling, again

The five-part Rain Check series carried by Pune Newsline a fortnight ago had sought to find out if the city is ready for monsoon. Monday

MCD ready with concrete plan to fight potholes, waterlogging

To prevent potholes, water-logging and resultant traffic chaos in the Capital this monsoon season, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to take

Green panel whip on MCD: Build parking lots by Aug

Civic Body Will Have To Return Rs 811Cr Taken From Traders If It Fails To Meet Deadline New Delhi: The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) has put the MCD on notice. It has asked the civic body to provide parking on 3,000-odd commercial and mixed-land-use streets by August.

MCD may hike parking charges

New Delhi: Delhiites might soon have to shell out more for parking in the city with the MCD proposing to hike parking charges. According to MCD

Reading between poverty lines

Rural India is much poorer than officially thought. The Planning Commission has accepted the report of a committee, led by economist Suresh Tendulkar, which estimates that more than 41 per cent of rural India is poor. States will now have to issue more below poverty line (bpl) cards. But is …

Socio-economic and environmental aspects of farming practices in the peri-urban hinterlands of Nepal

Spatial location of the farm households shapes farming practices and livelihoods of the farmers. Many socio-economic variables have strong spatial relations that would otherwise be missed by data aggregation at household level. Geographic Information System (GIS) provides display and analysis of socio-economic data that may be fundamental for many social …

Plan panel to find a way to number urban poor

priyadarshi siddhanta To ensure the widest possible coverage under the proposed Food Security Act, the government has formally begun the process of identifying the number of people living below the poverty line (BPL) in the urban areas also. The Planning Commission has set up a high-level committee to devise a …

Vienna world's best city to live in, B'luru tops in India

SARJU KAUL LONDON BENGALURU IS the best city in India offering the highest quality of living. The capital city of Karnataka with rank of 140 is, however, way below European cities of Vienna, Zurich and Geneva the top three cities in the worldwide rankings of cities for the quality of …

5.2m vehicles and nowhere to park

Demand For Parking Space In Delhi Exceeds Capacity Over Three Times New Delhi: Fears of our cities turning into concrete jungles can now take a backseat

Advanced technology to lead to better traffic management

With easy availability of technology, it seems the day is not far when traffic in the entire city can be easily managed from one particular place, said Ms Kasturi Bhattacharjee, head (telecom) of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today. She was speaking at a Press conference on

FRI scientists in Delhi to treat ornamental plants

A team of scientists from the Forest Research Institute (FRI) in Dehradun has left for Delhi to treat the afflicted ornamental plants supplied from across India to Delhi for the Commonwealth Games. In addition to this the FRI is also involved in the environmental aspects of various other works in …

US$ 1 trillion needed to improve urban services by 2020: Report

The Government must invest close to US $1 trillion to improve basic urban services by 2020, says a report on

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