THE Local Administration Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday inaugurated the renovated Thiru Vi Ka Park, one of the best-known landmarks in Shenoy Nagar.

LONDON: Bristol, a city in southwest England, on Monday was named as Britain

LONDON: Health inequalities between rich and poor are significantly lower in areas with green spaces like parks, forests and playing fields, according to British researchers. The research makes a strong case for the government and urban planners to plan green spaces in cities in order to provide health benefits to people.

Ahmedabad: Will the city be grey or green?

DH News Service, Bagepalli:

The monsoon rains this year had ushered in new hopes among the people of Bagepalli.

The taluk had witness moderate rainfall, which was suitable for agricultural purposes. It was in this backdrop that it was decided to plant saplings in the premises of every Government School, College, students

Just about 10 years ago, Mangalore city had a lot of greenery with more number of trees and well maintained parks. However, the widening of roads and construction of residential/commercial complexes proved fatal for the trees. If the situation continues, our

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi launched "Van Mahotsav-2008' with the Leader of the MCD House Subhash Arya planting a sapling at a sanitary landfill site at Hastsal in West Delhi on Sunday.

The total area of landfill is about 16 acre and while the civic body has developed a park on two acres at the site, the remaining land would be developed into a children park and herbal garden in a phased manner.

The Chairman Garden Committee, Ved Prakash Gupta, was also present on the occasion along with several local residents.

Beijing's notoriously smog-choked environs are soon to be gifted an oasis of respite, courtesy of the Olympic Games. The largest public green space in the country, a 680-hectare Olympic Forest Park will soon open its oxygen-laden doors to the public.
The park is being billed by the authorities as a green lung for what is one of the world's most polluted cities. Built at the cost of 7.7 billion yuan ($1.12b) over a three-year period, the Forest Park is located at the northern end of the south-north axis around which the Olympic village is constructed.