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: Mumbai may have its own skywalk, which no other Indian city can boast of, but it is by no means a pedestrian-friendly city. A study by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Delhi's "walkability" points out that even though 40% of the city's population takes "pedestrian trips", the …
T. Ramakrishnan Number of urban poor increased over time CHENNAI: The urban poor account for about 47 per cent of the total poor in the State. In absolute terms, the number of the urban poor is 69.13 lakh and of the rural poor 76.5 lakh. These figures pertain to 2004-2005. …
AHMEDABAD: Housing societies who have deviated from their commitment of maintaining trees on their premises after obtaining Building Use' (BU) permission are in for a flak. For the first time in many years, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)'s town planning department will impose penalties on societies who have cut down …
Raghavendra Kamath / Mumbai June 10, 2009, 0:02 IST Tata Housing, a unit of Tata Sons, is advancing its plans to build 15,000 low-cost dwelling units by two years. Besides, it should add 300 more houses in its Mumbai project to take the advantage of demand for such homes, a …
The knowledge of the surface temperature is important to a range of issues and themese in earth sciences central to urban climatology, global environmental change and human-environment interactions. The study analyses land surface temperature (LST) estimation using temporal ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Themrmal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) datasets over National Capital …
This paper examines the interaction between socio-demographic characteristics (electrical energy usage, population density, and percentage of owner occupied dwellings) and the ability of these characteristics to predict urban leaf area index using ordinary least squares regression (OLS). Urban leaf area index was estimated using a combination of field work, remote …
Cyclone Aila has forced the Calcutta Municipal Corporation (CMC) to draw up new safety norms for billboards, which include a ban on sheet metal hoardings. Over 1,000 billboards were destroyed by the wind and found hanging precariously from buildings and gantries across the city. The sheet metal roofs of several …
Weather may not play spoilsport during the Commonwealth Games next year as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is planning to issue real-time forecast to the event venues. The age-old instruments of measurement in the Capital and surrounding areas are all set to make way for automatic weather stations (AWS) which …
A mega housing project proposed at Fatrade in Varca village has come under stiff opposition from local residents. At a corner meeting held on Sunday evening, the residents strongly opposed the project saying that it would affect the already crumbling infrastructure and open the village to hordes of outsiders into …
Dr E Sreedharan, MD of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, says a handful of environmentalists are coming in the way of saving the river and calls for setting up of an SPV to do the job When the members of the British parliament sat in the House of Commons on a …
MUMBAI: A major hurdle in the path of the proposed Navi Mumbai international airport has been cleared by the Union government. After repeated pleas from chief minister Ashok Chavan and former CM Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Centre has given a huge boost to the airport project by amending the 1991 notification …
Flexible Dividers Make Flyover Stretch On BRT Prone To Accidents The decision to install flexible bollards to segregate the bus lane from the MV lane in the changeover section of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor
AHMEDABAD: Over the last three years, Ahmedabad has seen a spurt in influx of scholars from foreign universities taking deep interest in its urban morphology, its origin and its organic growth in the 21st century. What has interested these scholars the most is the heritage of walled city and how …
The 22nd Session of the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlement Program (UN Habitat) was held from March 30 to April 3, 2009 at the UN Habitat Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya under the theme
Squatters' organizations are a notable driving force of civil society movements in Nepal. Their alliance, working on urban squatter issues, has been trying to change their strategy from one of confrontation with government authorities to one of collaboration with multiple stakeholders, including non-squatter neighbours. This paper reviews a decade of …
