AHMEDABAD: What was a stinking garbage dump in Ramnagar, Sabarmati, till four years ago, is now a verdant garden with 800 different species of trees and fragrant flowers blossoming there. Sai Garden has become a green haven for children and elderly.

Bangalore, DHNS:

The High Court has directed the State government to furnish details related to the green belt declaration in Bangalore, its preservation and protection.

Hearing a plea by Ex-servicemen and Economically Weaker Sections of the Society, Justice D V Shailendra Kumar has directed the State to provide the details within two weeks.

AHMEDABAD: Realizing the folly of a missing green cover in the city and with the threat of global warming looming, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is all geared to make the city greener with its

Ahmedabad: Will the city be grey or green?

Pune, September 10 The latest to join the green brigade in the city, the jewellers may gift every customer, who purchase gold from them on Dassera (buying gold on Dassera is considered auspicious), a Shami tree sapling.
The Department of Social Forestry has proposed to distribute about one lakh saplings of Shami tree to the Pune Jewellers Association, which is considering gifting the saplings to those who buy gold from them on Dassera which will fall on October 9. The idea is to urge people to plant more trees and save the dwindling Shami trees from vanishing.

New Delhi,

Yet another lot of trees, 1,523 to be precise, are proposed to be axed as part of the Delhi government

Pune, September 4 Here

The way cities are created determines our quality of life and forges our behaviour, our values for centuries. If land is saved for a great park it will provide joy to millions for hundreds of years. If park land is not saved but built upon, there will be much less joy in society. Latin American urbanisation is the most recent the world has seen.

NEW DELHI: During her visit to New York for three days in September, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit would inform the international community how planting of one million saplings every year has resulted in expansion of the city

NEW DELHI

The Delhi Development Authority's board of inquiry and hearing on Tuesday received objections and suggestions on the draft zonal development plan (ZDP) from the residents of Zone-L (that covers 21,933 hectares between Delhi-Rohtak railway line and was earlier known as West Delhi-III) under the Master Plan for Delhi 2021.

In all, there were 1,131 objections and suggestions.

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