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J. Venkatesan
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday extended the interim stay of the orders passed by the Delhi High Court stalling constructions in the Commonwealth Games village on the banks of river Yamuna in the Capital for holding the Games in 2010.

BY MANISH ANAND
NEW DELHI

The Delhi chief min ister Sheila Dikshit, set to take charge of the capital for a historic third time in a row, made her priorities clear, ranging from the 2010 Commonwealth Games, cleaning of Yamuna to housing for the marginalised people. And for the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants flooding Delhi, Ms Dikshit put the onus on the border states.

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Defending the interceptor sewage system as the best method of cleaning the Yamuna, Sheila Dikshit told The Times of India that the earlier technologies under the Yamuna Action Plan, on which crores had been spent, were

Court told Delhi water utility officers

THE Delhi High Court has sentenced a former chief executive officer of the Delhi Jal Board and two other officers to two weeks in jail for not repairing sewer lines in the capital and letting the sewage flow into the Yamuna without treatment.

Nov. 5: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the High Court order through which a four-member committee, led by Nobel Prize winner R.K. Pachauri, was constituted to assess the impact on environment due to the construction of Commonwealth Games Village which, environmentalists alleged, was being built on Yamuna river bed in east Delhi and would damage the ecology of the area.

J. Venkatesan

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed Delhi High Court orders stalling constructions in the upcoming Commonwealth Games Village on the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi for holding the games in 2010.

Court ordered a review of threat to it the Delhi High Court refused to stay constructions on the Yamuna floodplains and riverbed on November 3 and ordered setting up an expert committee to evaluate the current and planned constructions for any adverse effects on the river and its ecology. The judgement came in a public interest litigation initiated by Rajendra Singh of ngo

The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi has promised to review and modify the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) corridor project, which it alleges has worsened traffic congestion in parts of the national capital and raised protests from citizens and town planners.