The government will start compensating locals within a few days for land acquisition in the ambitious Hatirjheel-Begunbari development project in the heart of the capital.
Around Tk 488 crore has been handed over to the Dhaka deputy commissioner for the compensation.

NEW DELHI: The Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha from Chandni Chowk, Kapil Sibal, inaugurated his campaign office in Trinagar here on Tuesday.

Senior Congress leader Karan Singh and the area MLA, Anil Bhardwaj, were among those present.

CONGRESS MP Eknath Gaik-wad, whose constituency includes Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, has assured that the redevelopment model of the sprawling slum will be replicated in other slums of the constituency. After delimitation, his Mumbai South-Central constituency includes slum-dominated parts of Mankhurd, Trombay, Sion and Kurla.

Mumbai: The Environment Impact Assessment Authority has made it mandatory for projects spread over more than 20,000 sq metres (built-up area) to set aside a corpus to maintain, operate a sewage treatment plant for three to five years.

Kenya's huge and squalid slums don't have much of anything, except mountains of trash that fill rivers and muddy streets, breeding disease.

Now Kenyan designers have built a cooker that uses the trash as fuel to feed the poor, provide hot water and destroy toxic waste, as well as curbing the destruction of woodlands.

KOLKATA, March 30: Unable to complete its slum development projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme on time, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) now faces a cost escalation of around Rs 80 crore. This amount will be borne by the civic body.

Nearly 2,500 dwellers of eight slums in Faridpur district headquarters are now living in hygienic and pollution free environment following implementation of a pilot project styled "Integrated Urban Development (IUD)".

SHASHANKSHEKHAR MUMBAI. MARCH 22