Kathmandu valley losing its ancient water wisdom

Restoring traditional water structures hold key to making the region water secure

Addicted to groundwater

High Court order fails to wean Gurgaon off illegal wells

Chandola lake turns into dust bowl

City authorities look the other way despite court orders to conserve the lake  

BJP's promise of energy from waste heats up Delhi civic polls

Okhla residents accuse BJP and Congress of trying to poison people by promoting waste incineration to generate electricity

Centre inaugurates three ambitious urban development projects

Unveils a plethora of conditions for accountability and funding

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

It was a mishap waiting to happen

Garbage gets attention

India is revising the way it manages solid waste. A manual for this, prepared by the urban development ministry, proposes providing legal …

Letters

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 …

Hope in jaywalkers

The dominant urban vision is deeply exclusionary

Plan that isn’t

NCR Planning Board dilutes environmental safeguards to promote towns, industries

Streamlining autonomy

Panchayati raj ministry suggests amendments to local governance in north-eastern states

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

West Bengal transport minister calls cycle ban in Kolkata illegal

State government yet to revoke ban on non-motorised transport despite repeated protests, calls from civil society and advisory from Union …

'Politics, science and civil society will determine success of SDGs'

Paul V Gandingen, director at Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) and a UNESCO chair, talks about how countries can achieve …

Government announces names of first 20 smart cities

Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur top the list

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 …

Zurich is world’s most sustainable city, according to a new index

100 global cities were ranked according to their performance on three parameters—people, planet and profit

New agenda for Africa’s sustainable urbanisation to be adopted at UN meet in Quito

Weak planning of urbanisation is resulting in lost opportunities for growth and transformation for Africa

Masked development

If polluted air and risks to health are the trade-off for development. Is it worth it?  

Sukhomajri's failing development model

A model Haryana village, which had pulled itself out of poverty by managing natural resources, shuns the very model of development

Tough choices have to be made for Africa to sustainably urbanise

With Africa approaching 50 per cent urbanisation, governments have to make hard choices for scale and type of investments they need to make

What’s the progress of Smart Cities Mission?

So far, 20 cities have identified 642 projects amounting to Rs 25,935.02 crore

Vertical velocity

Why does development have to mean only  "citifying"?

Burn it all

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