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 …
New Delhi: Farmers of Delhi are now a worried lot, as Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the city government are planning to acquire panchayat land for
Teena Thacker After wreaking havoc in 2006, when the country reported a record number of dengue cases, the disease is back to haunt the city this year. However, experts are of the opinion that the severity of the virus will be much less now as immunity levels have gone up …
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Monday started propping up sound barriers to insulate the Commonwealth Games Village of any noise coming from the railway tracks running along Akshardham Temple. The structures, however, are a temporary arrangement to obstruct noise from the practice facilities and the apartments near the Village …
Three years ago, the Forest Research Institute (FRI) had proposed the utilisation of a cost-effective and natural way of treating industrial or domestic wastes to clear the Yamuna River of pollution in Delhi, but the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has given a deaf year to the FRI proposal. The authorities …
DDA plans to develop land under elevated road as public space with many facilities New Delhi: The basin of Barapullah Nullah, one of the biggest stormwater drains in the city, can hardly be described as a source of beauty. All that
New Delhi: The centuries old Neela Hauz will have to wait for the Commonwealth Games to get over before it gets any attention from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). Chief minister Sheila Dikshit, who visited the site with PWD minister R K Chauhan on Thursday, announced that unless DDA was …
New Delhi: Unhappy over constant bickering between civic agencies over water prices in Dwarka, the Delhi high court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) and Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to ensure water supply in the area. Justice G S Sistani asked DJB and DDA to quickly get their …
Constructing multi-storeyed buildings in the Capital has become a bit costlier and more tedious. Before getting your building plan sanctioned from the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Delhi Development Authority, one needs to seek a No-Objection Certificate from the Delhi Jal Board. The body responsible for supply of potable water …
Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna on Tuesday asked officials of the Delhi Development Authority, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and other stakeholders to conduct an in-depth study on slum rehabilitation. A team comprising members of these agencies will also go to Mumbai to study Bombay Municipal Corporation efforts to rehabilitate Dharavi, Asia
With the LG giving it the nod, DDA is going ahead with its Yamuna project which will see land on both sides of the river being greened and developed. Work on the first stretch will start in a few months and the project should be completed in five years ? …
The Supreme Court today asked the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to use the vast stretches of land acquired in 1996 following the closure of polluting industries in Delhi only for green belt development and not commercial purposes. In case, the DDA opted for commercial utilisation of the acquired land without …
THE Delhi Development Authority has been given environmental permission to go ahead with a Rs 34 crore housing project in Vasant Kunj. The rider: the project should have its own sewage treatment plant on site, with the housing society not only cleaning up its own sewage but also providing recycled …
New Delhi: With the opening of one side of the Neela Hauz bridge, Vasant Kunj residents are now anxious about the revival of the centuries old water body that had to be filled in with concrete to facilitate the construction. PWD, which is in charge of the project, says it …
The Vice-Chairman of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Ashok Kumar, has identified the in-situ development of slums and the construction of houses for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Lower IncomeGroups (LIG) as areas of focus in 2010. While the authority is anxious about ensuring that all Commonwealth Games related …
Mix-Up Blamed On File Numbers, Land For Link Road Project Has Been At Centre Of Tug-Of-War Between Delhi And UP TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: After acquiring 111 bighas belonging to the Uttar Pradesh government under a special clause for the construction of the UP Link Road, a mistake on …
New Delhi: Once a part of the Bhalswa landfill site in northwest Delhi near Rohini, over 20 acres of land close to the Mukarba Chowk will soon turn into a lush green patch. Public Works Department (PWD) officials said that the ongoing work would take six months to complete. The …
