New Delhi: The Delhi government has suffered a major setback in its drive against the use of plastic bags in the capital.

New Delhi: Sukhdev Vihar residents have once again reported emissions from the Okhla waste-to-energy plant.

A public interest project to mitigate NCR’s increasing water shortages initiated from the PMO in 2009 has seen another letter being fired to the PMO wanting to know why it is stalled.

Water activist Vani Sundarji (wife of former Army Chief Gen. Sunderji) wrote to national security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon last week asking why WAPCOS, a public sector company, which had already done the original R&D study for the project and submitted it to Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has now been asked to adopt a merely supervisory role.

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 had been designated as a green area in 2010, after the environment department declined to allow a housing project at the site on the grounds that the designated area is fit for water harvesting.

To tackle the shortage of parking spaces in the Capital, the South Municipal Corporation has identified and approved 12 new sites for surface parking.

The Metro completed 10 years of operations on Monday with the induction of two eight-coach trains on the Jahangirpuri-HUDA City Centre corridor.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) marked 10 years of Metro operations by inducting the city’s first eight-coach Metro train into service on Monday.

Dilli Annshree Yojana integrated with UID-Aadhar to ensure direct cash transfer in the no-frills accounts of the beneficiaries, is the first-ever food security scheme in the country which aims at r

Government today informed the Lok Sabha that Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has recommended that there is need to ban diesel vehicles in Delhi to prevent emission o

The government today informed the Lok Sabha that Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) has recommended that there is need to ban diesel vehicles in Delhi to prevent emission of high smoke particles.

"The EPCA in a report in 2012 has stated that benefits of CNG transition are not visible due to growth in diesel vehicles, because diesel vehicles are known to emit higher smoke particles and Nitrogen Oxides than petrol cars," environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan said during Question Hour.
Earlier in 2007, the EPCA had expressed this concern in a detailed report filed by it in the Supreme Court titled "Controlling Pollution from the growing number of diesel cars in Delhi".