A resident's collective opposing the Timarpur-Okhla waste to energy plant has had air quality samples taken from around the plant analysed by ChesterLabNet and Chennai based Global Alliance for Inc

Pre-poll move Surveys being conducted in jhuggi jhopri clusters across city to identify beneficiaries.

More than five years after around 14,000 houses meant for economically weaker sections (EWS) of society were built and still remain unused, the Delhi government has fast-tracked housing allocations. With the Assembly elections around the corner, the government hopes to allocate at least 7,000 EWS houses by the end of June and complete the remaining before September.

For the third time in a fortnight, tremors were felt in Delhi and parts of North India, especially Jammu & Kashmir, in the afternoon on Wednesday.

In 2008, the Delhi government completed the construction of around 14,000 flats that were to be allotted to people belonging to the economically weaker sections.

Five years later, the flats are empty and have fallen into disrepair. No allotment has been made till now, though government received thousands of applications over the years. The reason: The government is still working on the definition of EWS and, therefore, cannot decide who qualifies for the category. And for the few who did fit the category, the allocation got tangled in red tape.

‘They provide reasonably priced public transport to the masses’

To tide over the shortage of three-wheeler scooter rickshaws (TSRs), the Delhi Government has decided to approach the Supreme Court to remove the limit on the number of TSR permits which can been issued in the Capital. Delhi Transport Minister Ramakant Goswami said on Tuesday that the Government wants to bring more auto-rickshaws on the roads as they provide a reasonably priced and convenient public transport to the masses.

Air samples taken from locations around the municipal waste incinerator in Sukhdev Vihar in South Delhi have revealed fine particulate pollution to be at life-threatening levels and the presence of

Almost 11 months after the Delhi Cabinet approved a major Rs.3,015 crore road project, covering a total distance of 24.60 km from Vikaspuri in West Delhi to Wazirabad in North Delhi, for providing

Five hospitals in the city have not been strictly adhering to prescribed standards of collection and disposal of bio-medical waste according to the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has given "one last opportunity" to authorities in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, including DMRC, to come clean as to who is dumping rubble in the river Yamuna.

A committee set up by National Green Tribunal to inspect Delhi hospitals for biomedical waste disposal practices has found serious lapses at three government hospitals and some minor issues at two