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 …
Noida: In order to give a clean and green look to the surroundings of the River Yamuna, which has been polluted with filth and debris, the National Green Tribunal has entrusted a high-powered committee constituted by it to suggest measures to develop the banks of the river. A bench headed …
New Delhi: The mercury is rising but-Delhi Jal Board says it is well placed to supply water this summer. For one, it has taken measures to rationalize its system, and Haryana is also unlikely to disrupt supply in the light of plentiful rainfall. DJB officials say the board has reorganized …
Money spent per student three times the national average More affordable houses needed for the poor. The 2012-2013 economic survey of Delhi which was tabled in the Assembly on Tuesday threw up some interesting facts with regard to the transport, housing, environment and education sectors in the state. Despite government's …
New Delhi: Delhi Devlopment Authority (DDA) passed its budget for 2013-14 at an Authority meeting held on Tuesday with special focus on development of low-income housing in its sub-cities and maintenance of green areas. Infrastructure projects also got a boost. L-G Tejinder Khanna, who is the DDA chairman, said that …
The new land pooling policy, which will encourage active involvement of the private sector, is likely to be tabled for approval at a meeting of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Tuesday. Land pooling is being seen as an alternative to land acquisition by government agencies. It is based on …
Seize vehicles carrying it there, Green Tribunal directs Delhi authorities including DDA, DMRC and CPWD The National Green Tribunal has reiterated its direction to authorities to ensure that no debris of any kind, including from construction, is thrown on the banks of the Yamuna. A Bench also directed the public …
New Delhi: Vehicle owners in the city should gear up to pay a hefty parking fee. Lieutenant governor Tejendra Khanna has cleared the proposal for a parking fee hike to contain the chaos arising out of unorganized parking around the city. Once the hike becomes effective, the rates for the …
Only Pick-Up And Drop-Off Points To Be Provided At Stations New Delhi: There will be no parking at Phase III Metro stations coming up along Ring Road and Outer Ring Road as space is at a premium in these areas. Instead, there will be designated pick-up and dropoff points at …
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to ensure adequate water supply in some parts of Rohini in North West Delhi. A Bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice VK Jain directed the top officials of Delhi Government, DDA and Delhi Jal Board to convene a meeting …
With the changing face of Delhi, delivery of essential services like drinking water and sanitation to the people living in slums ought to be a policy priority for the government. However, public spending in the Eleventh Plan (2007-12) for slums seems to have been unresponsive and inadequate, leading to poor …
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Chief Secretary to coordinate with the authorities concerned to ensure supply of safe, regular and adequate drinking water with proper pressure to the residents of Sector 20 to 25 of Rohini Residential Scheme developed by the Delhi Development Authority. A Division Bench …
New Delhi: With no action being taken on the removal of debris from Yamuna river bed almost a year after it passed its first order, National Green Tribunal has issued a fresh order prohibiting dumping of any waste on the river bed. It has appointed five lawyers as local commissioners …
Costs to be collected for removing debris With a view to cleaning the Yamuna, the National Green Tribunal on Thursday restrained any body, person or authority from throwing debris of any kind, including solid wastes, on the banks of the Yamuna or the water body near the grand old river. …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday issued an order restraining all individuals, companies as well as public authorities from throwing any debris or solid waste on the Yamuna river bank or water bodies near it. It also ordered the governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and their agencies to immediately …
NEW DELHI: Delhi Development Authority will build 8,064 flats for slum dwellers at A-14, Kalkaji, in south Delhi. Construction for the mega slum rehabilitation project is expected to begin within a month or two. Sources said tenders have already been floated. "We will award this work soon," said a DDA …
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is going to construct an underground subway across the busy Pankha Road in West Delhi to connect its Dabri Mor Metro station on the upcoming Janakpuri West – Botanical Garden corridor with the localities on the other side of the road. A statement by DMRC …
NGO urges L-G to strop misuse of green areas To meet the increasing demand for housing in the Capital, the Delhi Development Authority has decided to change land use of a marshland in Dheerpur and announced a housing project for the Delhi Police on the site. Incidentally, the same marshland …
A huge tract of land in Masjid Moth Phase-I, originally intended to be used as a park, has become a dump yard of sorts, much to the chagrin of residents of the adjacent DDA colony. They say this place has had several fires in the past, the latest one in …
Apex court calls upon Delhi, Roorkee directors as other efforts bear little fruit The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the directors of Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Roorkee to find out measures to check pollution of the Yamuna. The river was becoming dirtier with each passing day despite …
The Supreme Court today asked the directors of IITs, Delhi and Roorkee to prepare a new project for cleaning the Yamuna, observing that the current project has failed despite spending Rs 12,000 crore over two decades. A Bench of Justices Swatanter Kumar and Madan B Lokur directed the environment and …
