PANJIM, AUG 21

The world is not on track to meet one of its key millennium development goals

Finding parking space in the city is becoming an impossible task and with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) yet to furnish a list of parking sites along the 2,183 notified commercial and mixed land use stretches

Hyderabad, July 27: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) will take up two major projects at a cost of over Rs 432 crore as part of infrastructure development under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).

For small-town India to become big, it will have to boast that it doesn't want to be another Shanghai.

Sangrur :Residents of Punia Colony on the Haripura road here have been leading a miserable life due to the accumulation of dirty water, leaking from some manholes caused by the choking of sewer lines in front of their houses for the past many days. Due to choked sewer lines, dirty water has accumulated not only on the streets, but also on the main road. The residents, including doctors, are protesting against the collection of sewerage water on the main road and on the streets, but according to them, no one is listening to their grievances for the past one month.

: As a part of the ongoing polio virus control and environmental surveillance activities, the Sindh health department is considering a proposal to test sewage specimens to be collected from various parts of Karachi and others parts of Sindh. The samples are proposed to be examined in collaboration with certain national and international organizations to see if polio viruses were present. Sources in the health department said that the proposal was discussed at a meeting of senior representatives of international health organizations and the Sindh health department held here on Monday.

The citizens of Greater Hyderabad can boast of having good healthcare services, international airport, world class research and educational institutions among other things. But when it comes to monsoon, the city roads turn into virtual swimming pools. Even 11 mm or 1.1 cm of rainfall in an hour inundates the main roads resulting in traffic chaos. Houses in the low-lying areas are marooned and the inhabitants have to shift to community halls or schools.