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2010 World Cup revamp: squatters evicted from Jo'burg

Can COVID-19 pandemic help India foster rural livelihoods and build resilient villages?

The shift of balance created by COVID-19 has revealed that urban centres, while important, need not be the sole creator of jobs or economic …

India does need toilets more than temples

Modi’s toilet remark has sparked a political row, but no one is paying attention to India’s sanitation challenge

20 years down the line what ails the urban local bodies

Lack of money, capacity and states' unwillingness to cede power

Urban form and travel to completely change after COVID-19

Central business districts will decline while larger apartments will be in demand as more firms consider making employees work-from-home, a …

Two buildings for housing the poor collapse in Vadorara, killing six

It was a mishap waiting to happen

Key to gridlock

Government plans to levy charges on cars to ease congestion in cities

Unreal in pampered India

With NDMC winning the smart city challenge, the contrast between where the government lives and where the rest of the citizens live could not …

Swachh Bharat Mission misses out on sludge management

Official representing India at third international faecal sludge management conference fails to provide satisfactory answer

Only 22 housing projects for poor completed under JNNURM, says CAG

Comptroller and Auditor General raps urban development and housing ministries for failing to bring about urban governance reforms  

Most in Asia-Pacific already in cities; expect 3.5 bln by 2015

Urban boom will be despite declines in Japan, China, Korea

Colombo gains park, loses wetland

Environmentalists say walking trail through the wetland is blocking water ingress

Gurgaon expansion halted

High court bars authorities from sanctioning new real estate projects to curb rampant groundwater exploitation    

10 years of Delhi gang rape: 70% of released Nirbhaya Funds utilised, Lok Sabha told

Region-wise disparities in fund utilisation; Conviction rate in crimes against women continues to remain abysmal 

Cities in the time of COVID-19

The current scenario underscores the need to make cities adapt and respond to threats through effective planning

India pushes for micro-level earthquake vulnerability maps

Launches seismic microzonation manual

Delhi Decongestion Plan lacks right measures and budget allocation

Delhi-based non-profit CSE writes to urban development ministry, evaluating the plan and recommending ways to decongest the capital in a …

High Court orders sealing of tubewells at construction sites in Gurgaon

Order will impact 450 ongoing projects

Burn it all

That is NITI Aayog's solution to India's solid waste management woes

Public private prank

Delhi HC dismisses appeal to scrap BRT

Says a developed country is not one where the poor own cars. It is one where the rich use public transport

More bus rides

COVID-19 exposes fault lines in peri-urban areas

Lack of sanitation awareness prevails at a greater extent here; it is unclear how COVID-19-centric awareness campaigns will influence behavioral …

Sri Lankan army opens fire on people protesting against MNC for contaminating their water; three killed

12 villages in Gampha district were demanding closure of Hayleys' subsidiary, Dipped Products