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Metropolitan touch to Metro corridors

Edit The Hindu 02 May 2016
he Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has finalised its Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) policy which will allow intensive development around Metro corridors ... In a major departure from the previous norms, which said that TOD norms would not be applicable to areas such as the Lutyens’ Bungalow Zone, Civil Lines Bungalow Area, Yamuna riverbed and Monument Regulated Zone, the new norms appear a little relaxed ... till May 24. ....

Parkash Singh Badal Targets Congress, AAP On Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal

Edit NDTV 01 May 2016
Ahead of the crucial 2017 Assembly polls in Punjab, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal targeted the AAP and Congress over their stand on the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue, alleging that both pa... ....

Bus crushes 65-year-old, grandson

Edit The Times of India 01 May 2016
A 65-year-old man and his 4-year-old grandson were crushed by a speeding chartered bus on Sunday afternoon near the Yamuna sports complex in east Delhi ... 1 of the Yamuna sports complex around 1.30pm, a white-coloured chartered bus hit the two-wheeler from behind....

NGT directs power discoms

Edit Indian Express 01 May 2016
“Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited and BSES Yamuna Power Limited shall continue to remain obliged to remove wires twined around the trees or any part of it within their licensed areas falling in NCT Delhi and such work shall be completed within next 20 weeks,” a bench headed by Justice U D Salvi said....

Lessons from Israel in the time of drought

Edit Deccan Herald 01 May 2016
Nearly 7 decades of independence has meant little or nothing for Indians living in the hinterlands as they silently suffer another drought. Successive Central and state governments have consistently failed in formulating a comprehensive policy to tackle an endemic problem ... Take a look at the numbers ... Water management ... The technology could also help clean up some of India’s river systems, especially the Ganga and the Yamuna ... ....

BPL flat allottees slapped with Rs 29-cr penal interest liability

Edit Indian Express 30 Apr 2016
Housing Board records reveal that except 531 flats in Kurukshetra, 405 in Yamuna Nagar and 55 in Amravati which were completed in 2013, completion report of 10 such projects for BPL class came earlier this year but beneficiaries of these flats have also been slapped the penal interest from a back date ... These are Dharuhera, Karnal, Fatehabad, Sirsa, Amravati, Narwana, Kurukshetra, Yamuna Nagar, Sonepat, Panipat, Ratia and Jhajjar....

Ganga 'drying up' as summer intensifies across India

Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
ALLAHABAD. The River Ganga is drying up as temperatures continue to rise across the country. Locals in Allahabad, where Yamuna and the mythical river Saraswati meets Ganga at Prayag, expressed their concern over the falling water-level of the Ganga amid worsening heat wave conditions. "Today, the condition is such that there is no water in the river ... ....

A people’s movement in Uttar Pradesh to revive a river

Edit The Hindu 29 Apr 2016
At present, in the absence of check dams, it flows into the Yamuna ... Umar Saif who leads the initiative, says Katha earlier used to flow between Saharanpur and Rampur but it died in 1830 when East Yamuna came into being, using a 60 kilometre area. “At present, Katha functions as the drainage pipe of the Yamuna because every time it gets monsoon flows, which at times is a lot, it drains that into that river....

AAP govt blames fires for pollution

Edit Deccan Herald 29 Apr 2016
Similarly, on April 27, 142 cases of fire were reported in 2016, against 61 cases in 2015. Earlier in the day, a Delhi government-constituted committee looking into causes of fire at landfill sites and Yamuna floodplains in its report said the civic bodies did not do enough to contain rising instances of fire ... The four-member committee however, couldn’t ascertain reasons behind fire in the Yamuna floodplains ... ....

'Cafes and kiosks at Metro stations to hike earnings'

Edit The Times of India 29 Apr 2016
Noida. Senior IAS officer Santosh Yadav on Thursday took over as managing director of Noida Metro Rail Corporation. Yadav has replaced Rama Raman, who also holds the post of chairperson of three development authorities of Gautam Budh Nagar including Noida, Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway areas. Yadav, an IAS officer of 1995 batch, was Uttar Pradesh's additional resident commissioner in New Delhi till recently ... ....

Delhi yet to benefit from solar power subsidy

Edit The Hindu 29 Apr 2016
The Central and State governments may be riding high on their new-found emphasis on switching to renewable energy, but residents of Delhi are not quite motivated to make the change yet ... “There will be around 20 companies on the panel ... As per data with the Delhi government, of these 110 households, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) has 79 households, BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) has 23 and Tata Power (TPDDL) has seven ... ....

UAE businesses pledge Dh13.44b for development in India

Edit Khaleej Times 29 Apr 2016
Over the past few months, Uttar Pradesh has taken a slew of measures in improving overall infrastructure & logistical facilities, including launching mega road projects, such as the 1047-km long, 8-lane Ganga Expressway along the course of the river Ganga, joining far east with national capital, Yamuna Expressway, likely to be completed soon to ......

Truck carrying firecrackers catches fire on Yamuna Expressway

Edit Indian Express 29 Apr 2016
A truck carrying firecrackers caught fire on Yamuna Expressway in Agra on Thursday. The visuals of the fire were caught on camera by a passerby. More details awaited. Agra (UP). Truck carrying firecrackers catches fire on Yamuna Expressway. More details awaited pic.twitter.com/54Yyh1ZWGC. — ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 28, 2016. WATCH. Truck carrying firecrackers catches fire on Yamuna Expressway in Agra (UP)http.//t.co/FFLdANtyQT ...   ... ....
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