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Activists and Environmentalists Demand Review of Musi River Project
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Activists and Environmentalists Demand Review of Musi River Project

Deccan Chronicle  

Activists and environmentalists in Hyderabad urge an immediate review of the Musi Riverfront Development Project. The project has been criticized for its rapid pace and demolitions that have displaced low-income residents. The activists demand that the natural flow of the Musi be protected by controlling pollution rather than pushing commercial development. They also call for an end to forced evictions …

Environment Law Social Justice Water Resources Hyderabad
Amaravati Project to Launch in December
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Amaravati Project to Launch in December

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Municipal administration and urban development minister Ponguru Narayana on Saturday indicated that construction work at the new capital Amaravati is likely to start from December 1. He disclosed that Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu is keen on completing the Amaravati capital project within four years.“We are proceeding with our plans keeping this target,” Narayana said. CREDAI Andhra Pradesh chairman …

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Karnataka cabinet greenlights Bengaluru's mega tunnel project for ₹12,690 crore: Report
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Karnataka cabinet greenlights Bengaluru's mega tunnel project for ₹12,690 crore: Report

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday approved two major infrastructure projects aimed at addressing Bengaluru’s chronic traffic congestion. The first is a ground breaking tunnel road project, set to cost an impressive ₹12,690 crore, The Times of India reported. This initiative will feature an 18-kilometer twin-tube tunnel extending from Hebbal flyover to the Central Silk Board junction, complete with five entry …

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Declare Bhadra Upper Canal as national project: Bommai to Jal Shakti minister
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Declare Bhadra Upper Canal as national project: Bommai to Jal Shakti minister

Deccan Chronicle  

Haveri: Haveri MP and former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has appealed to Union Minister of Jal Shakti CR Patil to give the approval from the National Wildlife Board for the Kalasa Banduri Nala Mahadayi Diversion Project and to declare the Bhadra Upper Canal Project as a national project. He also requested the minister to declare the Bhadra Upper Canal Project …

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NGT issues interim order restraining MSCL from carrying out Nethravathi riverfront project work
6 months, 3 weeks ago

NGT issues interim order restraining MSCL from carrying out Nethravathi riverfront project work

The Hindu  

The Southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal restrained Mangaluru Smart City Ltd., from continuing the Netravathi riverfront project work till its next hearing that will be held on Sunday, in its interim order on Friday, in Chennai. A Bench comprising Judicial Member Arun Kumar Tyagi and Expert Member Satyagopal Korlapati passed the interim order on an application filed by …

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How Mellon chief Elizabeth Alexander (and $500 million) changed the nature of the monuments we revere
9 months, 1 week ago

How Mellon chief Elizabeth Alexander (and $500 million) changed the nature of the monuments we revere

LA Times  

You could say Elizabeth Alexander was raised among monuments. “They chart future value by what they revere.” Alexander’s work even appears in a monument. “We have been separated from our grandfather for more than 150 years,” said Jim Pepper Henry, vice chair of the Kaw Nation, upon the occasion, “and we look forward to being reacquainted.” Alexander says the project …

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NH66 widening in Kerala will be completed by 2025: PWD Minister Mohammed Riyaz
10 months, 3 weeks ago

NH66 widening in Kerala will be completed by 2025: PWD Minister Mohammed Riyaz

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The widening of National Highway 66 stretch from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram to 45 metres, will be completed by 2025, PWD Minister P A Mohammed Riyaz informed the Assembly on Thursday. Kerala was the first state to share the cost for a National Highway widening project and the land acquisition could be completed in a time-bound manner, he said. "The …

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Namibian cheetah gives birth to three cubs in MP’s Kuno National Park
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Namibian cheetah gives birth to three cubs in MP’s Kuno National Park

Live Mint  

A Namibian cheetah named by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given birth to three cubs in the Kuno National Park. Thrilled to share that Kuno National Park has welcomed three new members. “Today, three cheetah cubs were born at Kuno National Park located in Sheopur district under the Cheetah Project started under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and …

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BJP Accuses BRS of Not Submitting Proposals for Palamuru-Rangareddy LIS
1 year, 2 months ago

BJP Accuses BRS of Not Submitting Proposals for Palamuru-Rangareddy LIS

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The war of words between the BRS and the BJP over the grant of national project status to the Palamuru-Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme continued on Sunday, with the latter accusing the state government of not submitting any proposal to the Centre on the project. Karimnagar MP and former state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar alleged that the BRS government …

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Cheetah Project on right path to becoming successful: Government report
1 year, 3 months ago

Cheetah Project on right path to becoming successful: Government report

The Hindu  

Four of the six criteria established for assessing the short-term success of India's cheetah reintroduction programme have already been met, a government report said on Sunday. The Cheetah Action Plan, published last year, lists six short-term success criteria, including 50% survival of the introduced cheetahs for the first year, establishment of home ranges in Kuno National Park, successful cheetah reproduction …

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Budget 2023 | FM Sitharaman announces ₹5300 crore grant for Upper Bhadra Irrigation Project in poll-bound Karnataka
1 year, 10 months ago

Budget 2023 | FM Sitharaman announces ₹5300 crore grant for Upper Bhadra Irrigation Project in poll-bound Karnataka

The Hindu  

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1, 2023, announced a grant of ₹5300 crore for the Upper Bhadra Irrigation Project in the poll-bound Karnataka. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai in April 2022 had said that steps had already been taken to declare the Upper Bhadra project as a national project. The Upper Bhadra Project will ensure irrigation of around 2.25 …

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Project to save tiger from extinction
2 years, 3 months ago

Project to save tiger from extinction

The Hindu  

New Delhi, Sept. 10: A Rs. 5.8 crore project to save the magnificent Indian tiger from going the way of the dodo is to be launched on April 1 next year. The report on ‘Project Tiger’, prepared by a task force of experts, at the instance of the Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, was presented to her by Dr. Karan …

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Declare ERCP as national project, Rajasthan CM Gehlot at NITI Aayog meeting
2 years, 4 months ago

Declare ERCP as national project, Rajasthan CM Gehlot at NITI Aayog meeting

Hindustan Times  

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday demanded that the government of India should declare Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project as a national project. Gehlot also urged to increase financial assistance of the Centre in various centrally In the 7th meeting of the Governing Council of the NITI Aayog held on Sunday, he also urged to increase financial assistance of the …

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NGT clears decks for inland waterway project on Ganga river from Prayagraj to Haldia
2 years, 7 months ago

NGT clears decks for inland waterway project on Ganga river from Prayagraj to Haldia

Firstpost  

The Jal Marg Vikas Project is being implemented on the Prayagraj-Haldia stretch of National Waterway-1 with the technical assistance and investment support of the World Bank at an estimated cost of Rs 5,369.18 crore New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has cleared the decks for the inland waterway project on the stretch of the Ganga river between Prayagraj and Haldia …

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Centre approves ₹1,200-cr. project to widen Shiradi Ghat stretch
2 years, 11 months ago

Centre approves ₹1,200-cr. project to widen Shiradi Ghat stretch

The Hindu  

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has approved a ₹1,200 crore project to widen the Shiradi Ghat stretch on National Highway 75 into four lanes. The National Highways Authority of India will take up the project and complete it in two years, a communique from the Chief Minister’s Office, quoting Mr. Gadkari as saying, said on Thursday. …

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In boost to UP farmers, Modi launches Saryu Nahar canal in Balrampur
3 years ago

In boost to UP farmers, Modi launches Saryu Nahar canal in Balrampur

Hindustan Times  

With the press of a button, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the ₹9,800-crore Saryu Nahar National Project, which was pending for the past 40 years, at Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh. Saryu Nahar National Project built at a cost of over ₹ 9800 crore was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 11 in Balrampur. The Prime Minister …

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Shashi Tharoor: Let’s not recast New Delhi in any party’s own image
3 years, 5 months ago

Shashi Tharoor: Let’s not recast New Delhi in any party’s own image

Live Mint  

If there is a physical space in the country that embodies the character of Indian democracy, it is undoubtedly the two-mile stretch between India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhavan in the heart of New Delhi. A new Parliament building is to be built, existing structures razed to accommodate a series of identical-looking ministries, a new residence constructed for the Vice President …

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Government earmarks ₹2,217 crore for tackling air pollution
3 years, 10 months ago

Government earmarks ₹2,217 crore for tackling air pollution

Live Mint  

New Delhi: The Centre on Monday earmarked a sum of ₹2,217 crore for tackling air pollution in 42 urban centres, even as it shrunk the budgetary allocation for the environment ministry from the last fiscal by nearly eight percent for 2021-22. While it has reduced the amount allocated to the climate change action plan by ₹10 crore and to Project …

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Beyond the veils of secrecy, the Central Vista project is both the cause and effect of its own multiple failures
4 years, 1 month ago

Beyond the veils of secrecy, the Central Vista project is both the cause and effect of its own multiple failures

The Hindu  

After the 2019 fire that devastated Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, an international competition was held to generate the widest range of ideas for its roof rehabilitation. However, to facilitate the large-scale demolitions proposed in the new Central Vista plan, the Heritage Conservation Committee made a distinction between pre-Independence and post-Independence buildings to redefine the status of ‘heritage’. A second petition …

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Sachin Pilot writes to PM Modi, urges national project status for East Rajasthan Canal Project
4 years, 2 months ago

Sachin Pilot writes to PM Modi, urges national project status for East Rajasthan Canal Project

Hindustan Times  

Sachin Pilot, the former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has demanded a national project status to the desert state’s ambitious East Rajasthan Canal Project. I have requested the PM to give technical sanction and financial assistance for the project, which is ₹37,247 crore,” said Pilot, the former chief of Rajasthan Pradesh Congress …

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