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Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday approved the much-awaited Mahanadi River Front Development project. According to a statement released by the Chief Minister's Office, the project will be implemented during the next three years between financial years 2025-26 and 2027-28. The Odisha Water Resources department will spend Rs 240 crore out of the State exchequer on the ambitious project during the next three financial years. While approving the project, Majhi said, ...Read More >
Gurugram: Heavy rains have lashed Haryana's Gurugram over the past 24 hours, bringing the city to a standstill. Waterlogging and long traffic jams have been reported in several areas of the city. Gurugram witnessed chaos on Monday evening as a traffic snarl stretching close to 20 kilometres was reported on the Delhi-Jaipur highway. The Congress slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Haryana over the 20-km-long traffic jam. Congress MP Randeep Surjewala lashed out at Chief Minist ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 28 (PTI) Wastewater treatment solution provider SFC Environmental Technologies has filed preliminary papers with markets regulator Sebi seeking its approval to raise funds through an initial public offering (IPO). The company's proposed IPO is a combination of a fresh issue of shares worth Rs 150 crore and an offer-for-sale (OFS) of 1.23 crore shares by promoters and existing shareholders, according to the draft red herring prospectus. Proceeds from a fresh issuance worth Rs 47. ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Sunday inaugurated a Jan Seva Kendra at the community centre in DDA Flats, Rajiv Gandhi Park, in the Kalkaji Assembly constituency. She asserted that her government is fully committed to Delhi's development and will ensure that funds are never a constraint for any public welfare work. Addressing the gathering, the CM said the event was a tribute to Nari Shakti. "When the MLA, the MP and the CM are all women, it is a powerful symbol of women's leadership ...Read More >
CHENNAI: The city corporation has now revised the fines for illegal sewage connections to the city's storm water drains, which eventually make their way into the major waterbodies. However, it remains to be seen if the fines would be enforced, as despite a 2017 amendment of the Chennai City Municipal Corporation Act, 1919 allowing for fines from Rs 5,000 (residential) to Rs 2 lakh (commercial), the corporation officials told TNIE they have not collected any fine yet. Setting the alarm bells rin ...Read More >
Kolkata, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in Odisha, Assam and Delhi after being branded as illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators, the Special Intensive Review (SIR) and the necessity of Opposition unity on these issue are likely to be the important matters that would be raised by the Trinamool Congress in the meeting of the INDIA Bloc this evening. The meeting will be attended virtually by the Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party's Lok Sabha membe ...Read More >
Shimla, July 19 (UNI) This Raj day Town once celebrated as the cleanest city in Himachal Pradesh, has slipped to third place in the state and plummeted to 347th position nationally in the Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 rankings. The Queen of Hills, renowned for its scenic beauty, has been overtaken by Theog and Nadaun, exposing persistent civic issues, unplanned construction activities, and mismanaged waste disposal. The city's fall in rankings is attributed to the lack of vision among successive g ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi govt has started a survey of drains using drones. They will assess the smaller drains that discharge untreated waste into larger drainage systems. This is part of the state govt's efforts to clean the Yamuna, water minister Parvesh Verma said on Tuesday.The city has 22 big drains, major being the Najafgarh drain, Shahdara drain and Supplementary drain, which empty into the Yamuna. Verma said that there are around 300 sub-drains connecting to these large drains."It is important f ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 18 (ANI): A team of Nand Nagri Police Station launched a special drive against individuals involved in the sale of banned 'Chinese Manjha', amid rising incidents of injuries and nabbed two siblings with 325 rolls on Friday. With Independence Day (15th August) and Raksha Bandhan approaching, the Delhi Police has launched a special drive to curb the sale and use of hazardous Chinese Manjha -- a nylon-based kite string that has caused numerous injuries and fatalities involv ...Read More >
New Delhi: To give a push to Delhi's efforts to provide sewage connections to every household in the capital, central govt will provide Rs 800 crore to the city under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme 2.0.Officials said the money will be spent on strengthening the sewage network in the city's unauthorised colonies. They added that Delhi govt has planned to install around 2.5 lakh sewer connections in unauthorised colonies and other residential areas. The m ...Read More >
The southern bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Karnataka government to submit an action plan within a month to control the discharge of untreated sewage and industrial effluents into the Thenpennai river. This is pending the completion of new sewage treatment plants (STPs) scheduled for the end of December 2025. The directive came during a hearing on July 15, based on a suo motu case initiated by the bench based on news reports. The bench expressed serious concern over ...Read More >
NEW DELHI/BATHINDA: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Friday conducted searches at 22 de-addiction centres across Punjab, including in Chandigarh, Barnala and Ludhiana, after its investigation revealed illegal sale of drugs by these centres. The agency also searched a premise in Mumbai linked to the accused.Dr Amit Bansal, who runs these 22 centres, is prime accused in the case, sources said. Bansal, against whom Punjab Police has registered multiple FIRs, is alleged to be engaged in illega ...Read More >
Pune: Expressing disappointment over nearly 8,000 workers still being involved in manual scavenging, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said it was against Maharashtra's stature as a progressive state.Raising the issue of manual scavenging, BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar expressed concern for workers involved in it. "This is really a socially sensitive issue. Such an inhuman practice is still going on in the state. According to an audit of the central govt, a total of 18 workers died while cle ...Read More >
Varanasi (UP), Jul 11 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai and 10 others have been booked for allegedly blocking a road and creating chaos in Varanasi, a police official said on Friday. The Congress leader, however, maintained that he was highlighting the ground reality. Rai, along with 50 supporters had on Thursday took out a march from Englishia Line to Sajan Chowk in Varanasi, stepped into potholes on the road and raised slogans. The 1.5 kilometre road stretch has been dug up at vari ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: The restoration of Bathukammakunta in Amberpet is nearing completion with Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA) leading the effort to bring the lake back to life after years of neglect.Once spread across 14 acres, the lake significantly shrank over time and was completely dry until late 2024. During a desilting and excavation drive, water was unexpectedly found a few feet below the surface, prompting further work to assess and restore the site, HYDRAA commis ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Union Minister of Coal and Mines, G Kishan Reddy, and Malkajgiri MP Eatala Rajender thanked Union Defence Minister Rajanath Singh for approving a budget of Rs 303 crore for development works in Secunderabad Cantonment area. Kishan Reddy announced on Tuesday that in 2024, the Defence Department transferred the land needed for the elevated corridor from Jubilee Bus Station to Shamirpet to the state government. In return, it was agreed that the Rs. 303 crore received would be deposited ...Read More >
Kota: Chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla participated in a public grievance redressal camp organised under Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Antyodaya Sanbal Pakhawda campaign at Maharav Bhimsingh Stadium in Sangod town of Kota district Monday.They launched the Suposhit Maa Abhiyan, dedicated to pregnant women weighing less than 50 kilograms who need additional nutrition and health services. Nutrition kits for 1,500 identified pregnant women will be distributed under the 'Su ...Read More >
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta wrote to Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, urging him to take immediate steps to curb illegal sand mining in Yamuna river areas near Delhi-UP border. The CM, in a statement, said illegal activities are weakening the river's embankments, thereby increasing the risk of flooding. She also apprised UP CM of the concerns raised by National Green Tribunal (NGT) over this critical issue.In her letter, Gupta shared detailed information about the illegal sand mining ...Read More >
Haridwar (Uttarakhand) [India], July 7 (ANI): Haridwar, one of the holiest cities in India and a key site of the Kumbh Mela, is making major strides in preserving the purity of the river Ganga through enhanced sewage treatment infrastructure under the Namami Gange Mission. Working towards the goal of a clean and rejuvenated Ganga, the city now hosts two state-of-the-art Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) with a combined capacity of 82 million litres per day (MLD). These include a 68 MLD STP at Jagj ...Read More >
Chennai: Farmers and social activists of Tiruppur and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu are gearing up for an indefinite protest demanding the revival of the Noyyal River, which they said has been reduced to a drain due to unchecked pollution. The protest, scheduled to begin on July 13 in Mangalam, calls on the Stalin government to take immediate steps to prevent the inflow of untreated sewage, industrial waste, and plastic into the river. K.N. Mohammed Ali, a social activist, said the Noyyal, which ori ...Read More >
Officials said the proposal will now be put up before the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). "The DJB is currently working on improving its billing system software, which will take about two to three months. Once done, the scheme will be implemented," said an official. The Delhi government has given in-principle approval to waive the entire late payment surcharge in water bills for domestic and government categories, Water Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh said on Thursday. Speaking to mediapersons, Singh said ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court came down heavily on the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) during a hearing on the supply of contaminated water in parts of East Delhi. A bench led by Chief Justice DK Upadhyay criticized the board for allowing residents to consume water mixed with sewage, calling the situation deeply concerning. "You are asking people to drink sewer-mixed water. Unless someone approaches the court, you don't even go there to check," remarked the Chief Justice during the proceedings. The co ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jul 4: Lieutenant Governor (LG) Manoj Sinha Friday said that he was proud to see women breaking barriers in agricultural sciences and technology. In his address at the 6th convocation ceremony of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir (SKUAST-K), the LG said, "Proud to see our daughters breaking barriers and achieving success in Agricultural Science and Technology. It reflects a bright future for J&K and the nation." During the convocation, of the ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday came down heavily on the Delhi Jal Board for supplying contaminated drinking water laced with sewage in parts of east Delhi, questioning how authorities could justify forcing citizens to consume such dangerously polluted water. A bench led by Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Anish Dayal expressed dismay while hearing a public interest litigation that alleged residents of Yojana Vihar, Anand Vihar, Jagriti Enclave, and nearby localities were recei ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Cities in India will be redeveloped through the Centre's Urban Challenge Fund, under which Rs 1 lakh crore will be allocated. The funds will be utilised to improve the infrastructure of the cities, Union minister for power, housing and urban affairs Manohar Lal Khattar said on Friday. The minister also underlined the need for making urban local bodies self-reliant. He said that while these bodies receive a fixed amount of funding from the central and state govts, achieving true self-rel ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 4 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Friday pulled up the Delhi Jal Board for supplying contaminated water in colonies and asked how the authorities could expect the citizens to "drink sewage mixed water". A bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Anish Dayal was hearing a plea alleging residents of Yojana Vihar, Anand Vihar, Jagriti Enclave and other adjacent areas in east Delhi received "highly contaminated potable water" mixed with sewer/sewage in their household taps. "U ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Signalling the government's intent to move ahead with the impeachment motion of Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday said that main opposition parties have given their in-principle approval to support the motion in the upcoming monsoon session scheduled for July21-August 21. Rijiju said that the government is yet to decide whether the motion would be brought in the Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha. For the Lok Sabha, signatures of a m ...Read More >
CHENNAI: In a major step toward promoting renewable energy, the State has proposed to employ a private player to curate a feasibility report for the installation of solar rooftops and floating solar plants to power up Chennai Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board sites and three lakes. The CMWSSB, or Metro Water, through the Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services Limited (TNUIFSL) mooted a plan to install renewable energy sources to bring down the costs of running its sites, includi ...Read More >
U.S. and India trade negotiators were pushing on Wednesday to finalise a tariff-reducing deal ahead of President Donald Trump's July 9 negotiating deadline, but disagreements over U.S. dairy and agriculture remained unresolved. WHY ARE FARM GOODS IMPORTS SENSITIVE IN INDIA? Agriculture and its allied areas contribute just 16% to India's $3.9 trillion economy, but sustain nearly half of the country's 1.4 billion population. As farmers remain the most powerful voting bloc, Prime Minister Narendr ...Read More >
Hubballi: Around 25 households in UKT Hills, Hubballi, continue to receive foul-smelling, contaminated water. Despite repeated complaints to the corporation, no resolution has been found. Officials suspect pipeline work under the 24x7 drinking water project has led to sewage mixing with drinking water, but the exact cause remains untraced.According to a source, the area comes under Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) Ward 34. Around 80 family members are facing various health issues. T ...Read More >
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