Residents of DLF (Phase-I), including cricketer Yuvraj Singh, today staged a demonstration at the new crossing on the Gurgaon-Faridabad highway demanding a ban on dumping of garbage in the vicinity of the posh residential area.

Gurgaon: Improvement of hygiene seems to have taken precedence over corporate meetings for many CEOs these days as they join hands in DLF area on the 22nd to protest against illegal dumping of garbage at Gurgaon-Faridabad road.

Chandigarh, September 19 The Haryana State Agricultural Marketing Board (HSAMB) has decided to set up air-conditioned agro malls for the sale of all kinds of agricultural based products, food products and other allied products at various places in the state. To be developed on the pattern of international supermarkets, two such malls have already been launched at Panchkula and Karnal.

Ayesha Arvind

Gurgaon, September 8 When it was first conceived, Gurgaon was to be a perfectly planned city offering an enticing lifestyle. Massive real estate development soon followed in the form of upmarket condominiums and numerous high-end commercial complexes.

Years later, however, many such complexes are still waiting for a regular electricity connection, depending in the meanwhile, on diesel generator sets for power.

The unabated onslaught of dengue has made boom town Gurgaon the worst affected district in the national capital region (NCR), as the number of cases here has increased to 374. Nearly 500 cases have tested positive in NCR.

Confirming this, Gurgaon malaria officer Krishan Kumar said that of the total patients who tested positive, 12 were from outside the district.

NEW DELHI

Two dengue patients have died and 40 of them are battling the disease at different hospitals, taking the number of dengue cases in the district this season to 348.

Giving these details, Gurgaon civil surgeon Dr S.S. Dalal said the district administration and health authorities are making all efforts to control the spread of the disease.

Fogging has been done in the houses of all the positive cases and many houses in the neighbourhood have also been covered under the operation as a preventive measure, he said.

New Delhi: Illegal mining in the face of falling groundwater levels and non-implementation of environment rules is posing a huge problem for the NCR. After Gurgaon, where groundwater levels have considerably gone down, it's now Faridabad district where mining activity is gaining momentum.

60 Confirmed Cases In Delhi, 213 In Gurgaon; MCD To Challan Defaulters

New Delhi: A sharp rise in the number of dengue cases in Delhi and its neighbouring areas has set the alarm bells ringing. Till August 25, 60 confirmed cases of dengue have been reported from Delhi and 213 from Gurgaon, including two deaths.
This is more than three times the number of cases reported during dengue outbreak in 2006 for the same period. In 2007, just 15 cases were reported in the Capital while in 2006 just 19 dengue cases were reported till August 25.

CHANDIGARH

A team of the Haryana health department has reported that a majority of the 205 cases of dengue in Gurgaon pertain to patients living in New Gurgaon and other upmarket localities. Not a single instance has been reported from Old Gurgaon's Jacubpura area, which is known to have a lot of accumulated dirt and filth, or from any other slum.

Warns officials not to ignore Congress workers seeking grievance redressal

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has directed the officials to repair the roads of Gurgaon city within six months. He was addressing a meeting of Congress workers of Gurgaon and Faridabad Lok Sabha constituencies at Gurgaon over the weekend.

He said a Central University would be opened at Mahendergarh and a Defence University would be set up at Gurgaon. A Sainik School would be opened in the Rewari district.