The Azadpur Gaon Welfare Association has urged the Delhi High Court to halt the project of building a mall-cum-Metro station by Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) at Ring Road Azadpur as it is being built at the reserved green area. Puneet Mittal, counsel for the petitioner Rai Singh Rana said according to the master plan, the area where the DMRC is building its station is earmarked for the green belt and the private builders and public authorities have connived to violate all norms to obtain prior sanction before the construction.

The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on the ongoing construction of the Commonwealth Games Village that has been challenged on the grounds that it could harm the ecological system of the Yamuna riverbed. A division bench headed by Justices A.K. Sikri and Rekha Sharma reserved the order after hearing the arguments from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and environmentalists. "We are giving one week's time to all parties in the case to file their affidavits if they want to say anything else in the case,' said the bench.

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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has recorded yet another death in the Capital due to meningococcemia, taking to ten the toll since the beginning of this year. The total number of meningococcemia cases has gone up to 56. According to a senior official of the civic body, 31 of the cases are from Delhi and 25 from neighbouring States. The meningococcemia symptoms include fever, rashes on the body, severe headache, stiff neck and nausea.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment on a bunch of public interest litigation petitions challenging the construction of concrete structures, including the Commonwealth Games Village, on the Yamuna riverbed here. A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice A. K. Sikri and Justice Rekha Sharma reserved the judgment at the conclusion of arguments by counsel for the Delhi Development Authority, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and the petitioners.

The Delhi High Court today reserved its orders on a bunch of petitions filed by environmentalists challenging the construction of the 2010 Commonwealth Games village site on the banks of river Yamuna. The court reserved its order after hearing the petitioners' ecological concerns over the construction of the Games village for the international sports event and a Metro corridor on the river banks.

There is some respite at last. Disturbed by the growing popular anger over the manner in which the Bus Rapid Transit corridor has been conceived and is being implemented, CM Sheila Dikshit is learned to have ordered the six other BRT corridors be put on hold until the first phase of the pilot project

At a time when experts are struggling to find a solution to mitigate the perceived damage to the planet in the wake of climate change, Jawaharlal Nehru University here is trying to do its bit to save the environment. The authorities are discussing a proposal to start battery-operated buses for internal commuting on the sprawling campus.

The Delhi Development Authority has decided to withdraw the draft Yamuna River Zonal Plan dealing with 90 square kilometres of active flood plain of the river here.

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