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Delhi steps up Yamuna clean-up: Sewage treatment plant to be strengthened for rRs.r518cr

India, Jan. 16 -- As part of the Yamuna clean-up project, the Delhi government has approved funding of Rs.518.88 crore for repurposing the Coronation Pillar sewage treatment plant to treat 30 million ... Read More


50% compensatory trees missing in Delhi: NHAI

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- For years, compensatory plantation has been the moral fig leaf of Delhi's infrastructure expansion - trees felled for highways and projects are promised back, but the ground tell... Read More


50% compensatory trees missing in Delhi: NHAI

New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- For years, compensatory plantation has been the moral fig leaf of Delhi's infrastructure expansion - trees felled for highways and projects are promised back, but the ground tell... Read More


Crematorium in Jwala Nagar to use cow dung begin now

India, Jan. 16 -- In an attempt to reduce wood consumption in Delhi's crematoria, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has started mandatory cow dung cake based cremation at Jwala Nagar crematoriu... Read More


'6.6K monkeys shifted to Asola in 5yrs'

New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- Delhi's civic bodies have relocated 6,691 monkeys from residential areas of the city to the Asola Bhatti wildlife sanctuary over the past five years, the department of forest and... Read More


Restoration of Wilson Survey map stalled for over 6 mnths

New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- The restoration work of the Wilson Survey sheets, the most comprehensive modern mapping of the Shahjahanabad area from the early 20th century, has been stalled for the past six m... Read More


No progress in Wilson Survey sheet restoration for 6 months

India, Jan. 15 -- New Delhi The restoration work of the Wilson Survey sheets, the most comprehensive modern mapping of the Shahjahanabad area from the early 20th century, has been stalled for the pas... Read More


Delhi has moved 6,691 monkeys to Asola Bhatti park

India, Jan. 15 -- New Delhi Delhi's civic bodies have relocated 6,691 monkeys from residential areas of the city to the Asola Bhatti wildlife sanctuary over the past five years, the department of for... Read More


Central groundwater body recommends revival of Central Delhi tubewells

India, Jan. 14 -- New Delhi The Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) said that hydrographs of sub-surface aquifers in Lutyens' Delhi have shown a rising groundwater trend, and recommended revival of 57 ... Read More


Centre to set up stations to monitor Yamuna e-flow in Delhi, Haryana

India, Jan. 14 -- New Delhi The central government will set up and operate two monitoring stations on the Yamuna River, near the Hathnikund and Okhla barrages, in an attempt to establish an independe... Read More