While doctors in the city say they have been flooded with cases of gastroenteritis and acute diarrhoea over the past couple of weeks, the health and sanitation wing of the Greater Hyderabad Municip

Several days of rain have resulted in an increase in the groundwater levels, according to the groundwater department.

Hyderabad-based Gulf Oil Corporation Limited has entered into a joint development agreement with Hinduja Estates Private Limited, also a Hinduja group company, to develop 76 acre of the former’s land at Kukatpally in Hyderabad.

While Gulf Oil will provide the land, Hinduja Estates will invest around Rs 3,500 crore in the township project, which will house residential and commercial complexes, Subhas Pramanik, managing director of Gulf Oil, told Business Standard.

The city has received excess rainfall this monsoon. Yet residents of a large number of colonies in Secunderabad Cantonment limits are facing a severe shortage of water.

Though the water available in the reservoirs presently is far less in quantity compared to the same day last year, it will be sufficient to supply 340 million gallons of water per day to the city i

Rampant encroachment on the lakebeds causes flooding in neighbouring areas such as Chandrayangutta, Bandlaguda and Nadeem Colony, as the lakes that have now shrunk can no longer store the water whe

Following the footsteps of GHMC, the Secunderabad Cantonment Board has decided to purchase dumper-placers or vehicles that have machinery mounted to lift garbage bins. The Cantonment Board meeting on Thursday decided to purchase five dumper-placer vehicles and 200 bins.

Meanwhile, the GHMC has come under sharp criticism from various quarters as its dumper-placers can lift only the bins and nothing is done about the garbage spilled from the bins and waste thrown at open dumping points. Despite the GHMC hiring labourers, they have not been able to reach all the open garbage dumping points in the city.

A below-par monsoon is likely to set alarm bells ringing in the UPA 2 Government, already reeling under the impact of an economic downturn.

The L&T Metro Rail Hyderabad Ltd has finalised a unique “cantilever elevated design” for Metro Rail stations coming up in the city.

In all, there will be 66 stations at 63 locations. Except for the three joint stations of Ameerpet (corridors I & III), Parade Grounds (corridors II & III) and MGBS (corridors I & II), all the other stations will be “cantilever stations” resting on only pillars in the middle with no side pillars. “This cantilever elevated station design is planned for the first time in India and is a rare engineering feat by L&T structural engineers,” said N.V.S. Reddy, managing director, Hyde-rabad Metro Rail.

A committee of corporators has recommended that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation levy hefty penalties on industries that are releasing their sewage into the storm water drain network of