Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
India and the US have signed an agreement for cooperation in the field of shale gas. The memorandum (MoU), signed in Mumbai on Saturday, will enable India to commence exploration for this and reduce its heavy dependence on imported energy sources.
A major fire broke out at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) oil storage depot in Taloja at Navi Mumbai on Monday night. It took the fire officials over six hours to douse the fire.
New Delhi: A thriving black market in kerosene, estimated at Rs 10,000 crore a year, killed additional collector Yeshwant Sonawane. A litre of kerosene sold at ration shops is often costlier than a bottle of packaged water.
Following Yashwant Sonawane
Dharavi resettlement creates a windfall for builders. Cost: local entrepreneurship
A non polluting, community owned mass transport system for Mumbai
A bacterial disease kills 42 people in India
An organisation in Mumbai documents the presence of dyeing pigments in microbes and plants
<font class="UCASE">a discreet</font> letter, <font class="UCASE">che/gen-318/dp/gen,</font> dated October 16, 2006, from the commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (<font class="UCASE">mcgm</font>) was recently discussed during its improvements committee meeting. Its subject line has worried urban planners and activists: "Policy guidelines for allowing development of lands reserved for public purposes of gymnasium, gymkhana club, stadium, swimming pool, recreation ground (<font class="UCASE">rg</font>) and play ground (<font class="UCASE">pg</font>).' <br>
The Maharashtra government wants to redevelop Dharavi, Mumbai s sprawling slum. But its plan has not taken into account the fact that people not only live but also work in this settlement, something they will not be able to do in the new Dharavi. <b><font