Many believe Dhar MUMBAI: Many believe Dharavi, India's largest slum in the heart of Mumbai, is also Asia's largest. Wrong, says a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report.
MUMBAI: The state government is gearing up for a cloud-seeding experiment in Marathwada, the region that houses the constituencies of Congress stalwarts chief minister Ashok Chavan (Mudkhed) and former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh (Latur).
MUMBAI: Only 11.13% of those who tested positive for swine flu in the city had travelled abroad or to Pune, the epicentre of swine flu in Maharashtra, an analysis carried out by the BMC's health department has revealed. This, experts said, confirmed what officials had been saying all along about the H1N1 virus being "in Mumbai's air''. About 60% of Mumbai's swine flu patients were men.
BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) hospital has become the first municipal hospital in the country to adopt renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE & EE) options, which after a successful run, could also be replicated in other cities.
Lucknow: A choked Ghiyasuddin Haider (GH) Canal overflowed following heavy rains that lashed the state capital on Thursday, leaving many areas inundated even as municipal officials were left redfaced.
New Delhi: For almost three years, civic agencies in Delhi have not been able to construct 13 enclosures on the Yamuna banks for people to throw in their religious samagri and not pollute the river.
- Four garbage transfer stations in Ranchi by end of this year
The Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has decided to come up with four garbage transfer stations by the end of this year to give respite to the residents from stinking roads.
