Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
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 …
Deepa H Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: With drinking water being supplied only once in five days, almost every container in homes in Tiruvottiyur is used to store water. Residents say that in the past one month the period of supply has been drastically reduced by half. V.Venmathi of Radhakrishnan Nagar said:
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: The 30-km pipeline from the upcoming 100 million litres a day desalination plant near Minjur to Red Hills has been laid by the Chennai Metrowater recently. However, a portion of construction work of the plant is yet to be completed. Metrowater officials said the pipeline covering about …
K. Lakshmi CHENNAI: The long-pending problem of garbage clearance in Avadi municipality may be resolved soon with the detailed project report for integrated solid waste management to be submitted by this month-end. An official of Avadi Municipality said the preparation of project report by a private consultant has reached its …
To provide better public transport services for citizens, the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) has identified 45 Traffic and Transit Management Centres (TTMCs) in and around the City. This was announced by Transport Minister R Ashok after inspecting the Transit Terminus at Shantinagar here on Friday. In its first phase, …
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 …
13 May 2009, 0300 hrs IST, Abantika Ghosh, TNN NEW DELHI: If you have been wondering why the number of low-floor buses in the city do not seem to be increasing, here's why. Delhi has not received a single low floor bus since July 2008. The next lot of 2,500 …
Performance, promises and prospects: A comparison of the election manifestos of the Congress, the BJP and the CPI(M). THE election manifestos of the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) make interesting reading, both individually and in mutual comparison (see pages 131 to 134). …
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 …
Money to be released after final nod from MC House While the much-hyped city bus service of the Punjab government has failed to start in Ludhiana, the Municipal Corporation would be soon getting 200 buses under the Centrally-sponsored Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). According to the sources, the …
Supply-requirement gap shoots up to 10 MGD in peak summer Though a few more days are left for the onset of peak summers, water problems have slowly begun to haunt Mohali, which will continue to reel under water woes until gap between the demand and supply is bridged. Mohali is …
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 …
AHMEDABAD: For close to a decade, Isanpur was given stepmotherly treatment by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) with leaking drainage lines posing a serious health hazard in the area. And, then came an RTI (Right to Information) application demanding accountability that forced AMC to act and invest Rs 10 crore to …
Ragpicking, one would assume, is the last area a corporate would want to foray into. But for ITC, which had in the past entered unorganised businesses such as manufacturing match sticks and incense sticks, it is a potential gold mine. Consider this: for 80 per cent of the 630 paper …
Chandigarh: Moving a step forward in the proposal to run 100 AC and non-AC buses in the city, the UT Administration has awarded the contract for the project to Tata Motors. Confirming this, Secretary (Transport) Ram Niwas said:
