Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad, on Thursday appeared before the Lokayukta and submitted a status report of the water bodies within HMDA limits

It is not just nitrogen oxides and particulate matter that causes pollution in the city. A new study claims to have found high levels of toxic benzene in Hyderabad’s air.

It says that the city now faces the challenge of a multi-pollutant crisis. And not just Hyderabad, but tier-II cities in the state such as Guntur and Vijayawada too are experiencing high levels of pollution.

The Saffolalife Study 2013, India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease, found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

India’s largest study on risk factors precipitating heart disease conducted by Saffola found that more than 70% of 1.86 lakh urban Indian respondents are at cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

Almost one-fifth of the centrally-funded sewage treatment plants in the country are “non-operational”, leading to millions of litres of untreated water either seeping into the ground as potential p

The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board’s scheme to regularise illegal water connections has failed miserably with not a single application being submitted.

Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority, which is supposed to protect lakes and water bodies from pollution, has itself choked up a twoacre lake located inside Sanjeevaiah Park.

Hyderabad: With the city’s Ganesh associations targeting one lakh pandals this year, Hyderabad’s lakes are in grave danger.

To put an end to unplanned haphazard development, the Secunderabad Cantonment Board has decided to prepare a land-use plan that will identify and demarcate the roads and areas of the Cantonment int

Though Osmansagar and Himayatsagar are on the verge of drying up due to poor inflows, there is some good news too. Groundwater levels in most of the localities in the city have risen.

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