The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
AHMEDABAD: Godrej group's proposed 270-acre Ahmedabad township Godrej Garden City has made it to the 16 founding projects being taken up globally by Clinton Climate Initiative's Climate Positive Development Programme (CPDP) for clean and green urban development. The 16 projects, which aim at providing one million people living and working …
May 21: With the UPA and the Congress retaining power at the Centre and the state respectively, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority hopes to complete many infrastructure projects
RASHME SEHGAL, NEW DELHI If the turnaround in the Congress fortunes in rural India has been attributed to NREGA, then the clean sweep of the Congress and its allies in the metros, including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Chennai, has been laid at the door of the Jawaharlal Nehru National …
AHMEDABAD: For war-ravaged Afghanistan, resettlement issues and need for planned civic infrastructure have become immediate concerns. In fact, a 14-member delegation from that country is in the city on a three-day visit to study sustainable informal urban settlements, or slums, and issues regarding affordable housing for the poor. Says deputy …
Jammu: The ambitious plan for a new terminal building for Jammu Airport which will involve 1,300 kanals of land, extending up to Vikram Chowk, near Tawi river, has got stuck due to a chunk of 145 kanals of Defence land en route. G Chandermouli, former director of AAI who was …
KOLKATA, May 14: Agencies working on various projects funded by the Jawahar Lal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) have sought the intervention of the chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, asking him to initiate steps against persons causing trouble at construction sites, leading to delay in work. The projects under …
Mumbai Devp authority receives 8,500 objections, suggestions from local residents against proposed car shed After opposition from local residents to setting up a car shed at Charkop for the Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd stretch of the Metro rail, the state government is considering the shifting of the depot to an alternative site in …
New Delhi At least 250 residents from three villages near Dwarka rallied to protect 26 acres of open land with two water bodies, which the government has earmarked for the construction of a Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) bus depot in preparation for the Commonwealth Games next year. Residents shouted slogans …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Development Authority on Monday announced that it had decided to purchase flats from Emaar MGF, the project developer for the upcoming Commonwealth Games Village here, to ensure timely construction of flats before the commencement of the Games in the Capital next year. Stating that purchasing flats …
Last Thursday, the Tree Authority (TA) of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation gave the green signal to cut 2,000 trees for several infrastructure projects in the city, and transplantation of 2,000. Set up to protect and preserve the city's green cover, the Authority-comprising politicians, bureaucrats and tree experts-has according to environmentalists …
MUMBAI: Almost four decades after the satellite city of Navi Mumbai was envisioned, planned and built, a survey by its creator, Cidco, has revealed a worrisome trend: the threat posed by malls to the township's large wholesale and retail markets. These bustling markets, which employ over two hundred thousand people, …
MUMBAI: The BMC's Tree Authority on Thursday cleared various proposals to hack around 4,000 trees in the city. Permission has been granted for 2,250 trees to be felled and another 2,000 to be transplanted. The two main proposals to remove trees have come from the civic administration. It has sought …
Govt makes it a must for civic bodies; Band had introduced the plan 5 years back Pune Divisional Commissioner Dilip Band's strong stand against autorickshawallahs has sent them on a protest. But Band has been unrelenting so far. A similiar no-nonsense approach of Band during his tenure as Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal …
AHMEDABAD: Had a report by renowned urban planner been heeded way back in 1996, city's scenario would have been different today. Stretches in central part of the city like Ashram Road and CG Road would be dotted with high-rise buildings. The report Ahmedabad: Land Use Issues & Recommendations' which suggested …
P M Raghunandan, Bangalore: Owners of private properties within 150 metres of the proposed Namma Metro stations across the City have reasons to cheer. They will now be allowed to construct high-rise buildings in accordance with the Bangalore Development Authoritys Master Plan 2015. The State government has made a provision …
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the construction of the badminton and squash courts complex for the Commonwealth Games 2010, at the Siri Fort Sports Complex (SFSC). There was opposition from the members of the SFSC who had alleged that the DDA had violated environmental norms. Passing the order, a …
