The government has initiated a move to protect agricultural land in the wake of

JAIPUR: To attain balanced growth in the state, the state commission on urbanisation will study all major aspects related to urbanisation and will recommend long-term measures to improve the quality of life of common man.

As Rajasthan is urbanising fast, the state was the first to constitute such a panel.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday stopped the unauthorised construction of a bridge on the Balu river at Mashkul in Khilkhet by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk).

The DoE also fined the Rajuk-hired construction firm Tk 5.5 lakh for harming the river ecology and ordered to remove within a week 45,500 cubic feet of earth from both banks of the river.

Rajuk, the city planner, fi

The Department of Environment fined a real estate company for cutting hills at the Khulshi area in the port city on Wednesday, a Chittagong DoE release said.

Impulse Properties Limited, a property-developer company of Chittagong, was fined Tk 7 lakh for the offence.

The release said that a Chittagong DoE team, led by its director (enforcement) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, launched a drive on Mo

Thousands of people planning to construct houses in Murree town have been running from pillar to post to get approval of building plans after Punjab government declared the hilly area as environment sensitive.

Getting a building map is no doubt a difficult task in the country but Murree is perhaps the only area where one has to obtain no-objection certificates from a large number of government

Several hundred farmers in the Rajshahi city on Monday staged a demonstration and submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, protesting at the land acquisition by the Rajshahi City Corporation for its housing project.

They said with this they would have to give up their land property for the seventh time for the government projects.

The farmers, women and men, from three areas, namel

The World Bank yesterday signed an agreement with the Government of Sri Lanka to provide US$100 million in additional financing for the Sri Lanka Road Sector Assistance Project, the bank said.

Urban revolution: 20 new trendsetters to redifine India by 2030India is on the threshold of an urban revolution, the scale and speed of which is unprecedented. It took nearly 40 years for the urban population to rise by 230 million but it will take only half this time to add the next 250 million. Cities will be central to India's economic growth.