Starting October 1, Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagar Palike hopes, Bangalore residents will start segregating waste at their doorstep.

After several failed attempts in the past, the water distribution system in the city is likely to undergo a complete transformation with the state government approving the privatisation of its mana

New Delhi: Even though the plastic bag ban in Delhi is yet to be formally notified, government agencies have stepped up their drive against it and also issued challans in some cases.

Resident welfare associations (RWAs) of south Delhi, the area where the pilot project to privatise the water supply has been implemented, said that they would oppose the project unless the Delhi Ja

While unplanned colonies retain a negative image for most city planners, pragmatic reasons favour their regularisation. A large number of Delhi's residents live in such unauthorised colonies, most of which are now being regularised. But just how many people, and what changes for them through regularisation? This process does not come without preconditions, spelled out through an emphasis on self-enumeration as well as the mandatory formation of resident welfare associations during the application for legal status.

The bazaar or intermediate classes have remained outside the predominant research imagination on urban change. Delhi's wholesale and retail traders, the primary subjects of this paper, are a subset of this bazaar world. This paper uses a case study of the Supreme court ordered sealing drives of 2006-07 to investigate how these traders were threatened by eviction dynamics earlier experienced by slum-dwellers and small-scale industrialists.

Nod Only For Builders Who Agree Not To Use Groundwater.

In a move to check the rampant mining of underground water in Gurgaon, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday barred issuance of any fresh license for construction activity unless builders giv

A week after the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi Government to open the BRT corridor for mixed use, the authorities are yet to comply with its order.

Take Stock Of Trees In Sarvodaya Enclave; Note Causes of Waning Green Cover.

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