City-based environmental activists has filed a complaint against the timber mafia before the Supreme Court Empowered Committee (CEC) on Monday. They are seeking a ban on the indiscriminate felling of trees like Neem that are in the exempted list. In their petition, the activists asked the CEC to direct the state-level committee not to issue licences to saw mills.

Aiming to provide better transportation facilities in cities, the Government has decided to introduce multi-modal transport system in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad at an estimated c

With the water situation getting worse, citizens are reduced to guessing on which day they will get water and at what time. The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board stops the water supply or delays releasing it as per its whims and fancies.

As it is, some colonies and gated communities in peripheral areas get municipal water just once a week. If that day is given a miss in the supply schedule, the colonies go without water for eight to 10 days or more.

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) of Central government recently launched a plant protection project to c

The human adenovirus (HAdV-65) is now making its presence felt in the form of diarrhoea, gastroenteritis and respiratory tract infections.

The virus has already been detected in Bangladesh and with the influx of immigrants from that country to Hyderabad, medical experts say that the ailment can be expected to surface among local citizens too.

The Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board has directed 97 healthcare establishments with over 100-beds capacity to submit bank guarantee within a week, assuring that they would conform to Biomedic

Realty firm Emaar-MGF (EMLL) had allegedly created 10 companies in the name of its employees on directions of its managing director to usurp prime land being developed near Hyderabad, causing loss

The office of the Water Board was flooded with complaints regarding the tariff hike and the poor quality of water, during the Prajavani programme held in the main office at Khairatabad on Monday.

Hyderabad is staring at a drinking water crisis as Osmansagar and Himay-atsagar are fast drying up. The water available in the two reservoirs will be sufficient up to May only through gravity .

Despite predictions of a good rainfall in 2012, the present water crisis in Hyderabad, especially relating to groundwater levels, may deteriorate in the absence of preventive measures.