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 …
This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country. It is a study-based approach analysing various studies undertaken earlier in the field …
This article offers an inventory of the risk of potential hazards to water resources and its implications to human and ecological receptors that may result from the climate change with special reference to India, a developing country. It is a study-based approach analysing various studies undertaken earlier in the field …
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Delhi Development Authority to suggest various ways and means to ensure that no damage is made to the green belt of the Siri Fort area. The apex court was worried that the DDA had spoilt some part of the green belt in the …
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked the DDA to consider whether the badminton stadium and squash court being built for the Commonwealth Games near the Siri Fort indoor stadium here could be shifted to an alternative site in order to save the greenery in the area. …
After all the protests and human chain formation on Wednesday evening, members of Hasire Usiru and supporters on Thursday sent a legal notice to BMRCL. They alleged that it was a violation of the Karnataka Town and Country Planning Act and Karnataka Tree Preservation Act. According to Hasire Usiru, BMRCL …
Sirsa: With farmers still busy in harvesting their crops, candidates of different parties concentrated on campaigning in urban areas of the Sirsa (reserved) parliamentary constituency today. INLD candidate Sita Ram, who has been campaigning for the past two weeks now, concentrated on a door-to-door campaign in his native town Dabwali …
AHMEDABAD : Surat has benefited most from Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), according to a book published by Gujarat Congress. Compiled by Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) spokesperson Arjun Modhwadia, The Voice of Truth: The Hand of Congress in Growth of Gujarat', states that Ahmedabad city has received …
Starting his election campaign with a padyatra in Shahpur Jat and public rally at Zamrudpur, Congress candidate from New Delhi Ajay Maken claimed that the Congress at the Centre and the Ministry of Urban Development had for the first time taken care of the concerns of the urban villages in …
Systems dynamics, cellular automata, agent-based modeling, and network analyses have been used in population, land use, and transport planning models. An overview of complex systems science as applied to urban development is presented, and examples are given of where the problems of housing people and anticipating their movements have been …
The biggest challenge facing humankind is to reconcile the impact of humans with the ability of our planet Earth to provide resources and absorb waste. This "crisis" presents a potentially pivotal opportunity for architects, who have a crucial role to play in addressing this challenge. Sustainable cities are the building …
Millennial Delhi is changing rapidly. Between 1990 and 2003, 51,461 houses were demolished in Delhi under "slum clearance" schemes. Between 2004 and 2007 alone, however, at least 45,000 homes were demolished, and since the beginning of 2007, eviction notices have been served on at least three other large settlements. Fewer …
Nearly 2,500 dwellers of eight slums in Faridpur district headquarters are now living in hygienic and pollution free environment following implementation of a pilot project styled "Integrated Urban Development (IUD)". Before implementation of the project, poverty and unhygienic environmental surroundings were the part and parcel of life of these underprivileged …
AHMEDABAD: If development becomes driving force these general elections, there is surely one thing that the ruling party in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will wilfully avoid. Central committee on JNNURM had insisted that each of the multi-crore project it partly funded in city carry a placard that gives acknowledgement to …
TIRUCHI: Geographists have a major role to play in ensuring planned urban development, Manoj Kumar Sarcar, Conservator of Forests and General Manager, Tamil Nadu Forest Plantation Corporation, Tiruchi, said on Friday. Addressing the valedictory of a two-day workshop on
Extension likely THE Centre may extend the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (jnnurm) beyond 2012, its current deadline. Planned with the objective of better cities and projects for the urban poor, the Rs 50,000 crore mission applies to 63 cities.
The traditional non-politics of Indian cities is confronted by rapid urbanization THERE are signs that urban India is discovering politics after a long interval. City after congested city is demanding funds for new, comfortable buses under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. Municipal managers see a clear political advantage …
Addressing media at the KPCC office on Friday, the Mayors expressed their unhappiness over the bus shelters that have come up in the City recently, and claimed that they had been awarded to private companies without calling for any tenders. Former Mayors and Congress men, M Ramachandrappa and J Huchappa, …
Taking a dig at India and other countries that believe economic activities must be spread geographically to benefit the poor, a new World Bank report has called for concentration of production, mobility of people and economic integration to lift rural people out of poverty. Population shift from villages to cities …
The report claims that the DDA has chopped down trees in around 27.7 acres whereas it site plan totals about 12.5 acres The one-man committee appointed by the Supreme Court to look into the environmental aspects of the badminton and squash stadium coming up adjacent to the Siri Fort Sports …
Under Deal With CEC, Rs 45 Cr For Forest Redevelopment Manveer Saini | TNN Chandigarh: In what appears to be the first win for those fighting for the revival of Aravalis, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) is all set to hand over 379 acres of land in the hilly …
