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Gurugram gets road people can walk on
Sukanya Sharma, Gurugram
GURUGRAM’s impressive skyline hides its ground reality: broken roads, ramshackle pavements and pools of stagnant water. There is a stand-out ...
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Kolkata’s tram supporters make a last-ditch effort
Aiema Tauheed, Kolkata
AFTER decades of being an important part of Kolkata’s public transport system, trams are on the verge of being pulled ...
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Trash solution in Bengaluru with rag-pickers involved
Sumangala, Bengaluru
MOST cities in India struggle to cope with their waste, but Bengaluru has been putting in place a solution that ...
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Hazardous trash going unchecked
Sukanya Sharma, New Delhi
How many middle-class households in India segregate nail polish bottles, expired medicines, paint boxes, batteries and other such hazardous wastes ...
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Keeping waste out of landfills in Gurugram
Kavita Charanji, Gurugram
Competing with Gurugram’s glitzy skyline and its denuded Aravali range is another mountain rising to new heights every day. This ...
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Dog bite anger leads to a protest in Jor Bagh
Jyoti Pande Lavakare, New Delhi
Jor Bagh is not the kind of neighbourhood in New Delhi where people take to the streets to protest. So, ...
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Happily to Howrah in the Metro under the Hooghly
Subir Roy, Kolkata
MID-March when the Kolkata Metro Rail’s service — linking Howrah Maidan to city centre Esplanade and touching in between the ...
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Dogs, people, courts: Pune housing society in a bind
Civil Society News, New Delhi/Pune
Imagine the scene. It is around 2 am. A van with 25-odd stray dogs turns up at the gates of ...
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Riverfront makeover in Pune is underway with many concerns
Rina Mukherji, Pune
LIKE most Indian cities Pune has a dirty, stinky river flowing through it. So, when the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) ...
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Deadly strays? Or docile ‘community dogs’?
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A resident of Ganga Apartments in the south Delhi colony of Vasant Kunj was on her way down the stairs ...
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Pune’s footpaths have rules, a PIL seeks answers
Rina Mukherji, Pune
EVERY Indian city has broken roads and ramshackle footpaths occupied by vendors and squatters. In some instances, wealthy residents have ...
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Polo wow! But Central?
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
SRINAGAR’s new hangout zone is Polo Market where locals and tourists congregate to shop, pass time at a café or ...
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Residents seek end to dog bites, terror in Delhi
Civil Society News, New Delhi
FACED with new regulations for taking care of street dogs, residents of Delhi colonies have come together to express their ...
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The comings and goings in a Gurugram neighbourhood
NATURE WATCH
Spotted Owlet When buildings come up and neighbourhoods change, what do birds do? We mostly don’t know unless you ...
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Kolkata to revive its trams but where are the drivers?
Subir Roy, Kolkata
YES, there is life after death for the trams of Kolkata, the only city in the country still to boast ...
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Street dogs: More kids die as the stray population grows
Umesh Anand, Gurugram
WHY are innocent children being mauled and even killed by stray dogs? What statistical threshold has been crossed for such ...
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More street dog rules, more dog attacks and deaths also
Meghna Uniyal, Gurugram
A four-year-old child was surrounded and killed by stray dogs in Hyderabad. An infant was bitten to death in a ...
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Plastic waste becomes park furniture with eco-bricks
Rakesh Agrawal, Dehradun
EIGHT years ago, when Ranjit Bar came to Dehradun to study B.Tech in computer science, he was taken aback at ...
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Stray dogs have Srinagar on edge
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
SRINAGAR is vying to become a smart city so that it can attract tourists and investment. The administration has initiated ...
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Sewer deaths: why machines are not replacing people
Civil Society News, Gurugram
IF a sewer line gets clogged in Japan, Sweden or France, and you really do need to send a man ...
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Old Delhi slowly: Cycle tour takes you to monuments
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
IT is 6.30 on a warm Saturday morning in Old Delhi. Gathered outside Delite, a run-down cinema on Asaf Ali ...
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Training the homeless in Delhi
Surmayi Khatana
FIFTY-year-old Dileep Kumar Gaurav from Uttar Pradesh was a practising lawyer handling criminal cases for a decade. He has a ...
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Getting rid of a garbage mountain
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A mountain of garbage, now 65 metres high and roughly as tall as the Qutub Minar, looms as a major ...
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Upscaling the street vendor in Chandigarh
Raj Macchan, Chandigarh
SONU, a 33-year-old street food vendor, sells channa-bhatura, tea and assorted eats near the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education ...
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Coming soon: A heritage park in Hyderabad
Civil Society News, New Delhi
EVERY city has its surprises and they show up for those who look for them. In Hyderabad, the Qutb Shahi ...
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What now for urban forest in Gurugram?
Kavita Charanji, Gurugram
OFF a busy road with speeding traffic and skyscrapers, malls and tech hubs looming nearby, Gurugram has a forest, a ...
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For street children is there anything like being home and safe?
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Children who live on the streets of the city ordinarily have a tough time, but after the coronavirus epidemic and ...
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Chandigarh wants to be a cycling city, but cyclists are missing
Raj Machhan, Chandigarh
The honour of being the cycling capital of India could go to Chandigarh. It already has 180 km of cycling ...
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Open shops easily found now on Punjab website
Raj Machhan, Chandigarh
Adversity evokes different reactions from different people. For Jaskirat Singh of Ludhiana, it led to the creation of an online ...
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In Ludhiana, clean-up with scrutiny by residents
Raj Machhan, Chandigarh
After getting the Punjab government to allocate funds for the cleaning up of the Buddha Nullah, residents of Ludhiana, supported ...
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Can Bengaluru get back its lost green heritage?
Geeta Wahi Dua, New Delhi
Every summer, Bengaluru, India’s IT hub, faces an acute shortage of water. Water tankers criss-cross the city as residents wait ...
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How Kolkata traffic police made roads safer
Subir Roy, Kolkata
There has been a remarkable fall in road accidents in Kolkata and the rest of West Bengal since 2016 which ...
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Mayor gets set to demolish hill of garbage
Raj Machhan, Chandigarh
Chandigarh’s mayor, Rajesh Kumar Kalia, is a contented man. His dream project of getting the city’s massive garbage dump cleared ...
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Vendors protest to make a point in Delhi
Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi
Street vendors in Delhi called off their four-day protest after municipal officials assured them that their demands would be looked ...
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Dirty drain's waste water is recycled with low-cost tech
Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi
Sewage and factory effluents flowing into the Yamuna through a drain in east Delhi are being innovatively recycled so as ...
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Rajokri's lovely wetland is also the STP it needs
Rwit Ghosh, New Delhi
A natural facility created at a cost of just Rs 1.8 crore is treating 600,000 litres of sewage each day ...
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Will trams get a new lease of life in polluted Kolkata?
Subir Roy, Kolkata
A small, dedicated group, stretching across generations, observed the annual Earth Hour late last month in Kolkata by gathering at ...
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Old bus, new restroom! In Pune women get toilets
Civil Society News, New Delhi
In the sunrise sanitation sector, Ulka Sadalkar is a pioneer. She runs modern toilets in refurbished buses exclusively for women ...
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When buildings become hotspots for TB
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A study of three high-rise resettlement colonies in Mumbai has shown that there is a link between the spread of ...
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Goa does electric, biogas, ethanol bus trials
Derek Almeida, Panaji
With the exception of Vasco, which bears the brunt of coal dust pollution, the remaining cities in Goa have pollution ...
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Panaji has plans, but they don’t take off
Derek Almeida, Panaji
Armando Gonsalves has seen Panaji grow and wither. He has been living in Campal, the heritage-preserved quarter of the city, ...
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Are basic property rights for slums the answer?
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Every Indian city has its share of slums. City governments have tried, over the years, various strategies and policies to ...
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To save Old Goa, people speak up
Abhinandita Mathur, Panjim
With its stately and historic churches, Old Goa attracts thousands of tourists every year. But, despite being declared a UNESCO ...
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Cyclone Vardah and Chennai’s missing trees
Jayashankar Menon, Chennai
On 12 December last year, when Cyclone Vardah hit the coast of Chennai, its howling winds uprooted thousands of trees. ...
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Choking in Delhi: How AAP has failed the capital
Umesh Anand, New Delhi
For several days after Diwali, a cocktail of life-threatening chemicals hung over Delhi and its adjoining areas. An orgy with ...
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SEWA’s homely project has been changing lives
Tanushree Gangopadhyay, Ahmedabad
For over 50 years Shantaben Hiraghar furtively used a clump of shrubs as a toilet. She lived in Kailashnagar, a ...
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Fogging’s dark truth
Civil Society News, New Delhi
As dengue and chikungunya cases flooded hospitals in New Delhi, a fogging blitz was unleashed on the capital city’s slums ...
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Srinagar takes another shot at smart city tag
Jehangir Rashid, Srinagar
When both Srinagar and Jammu were left out of the central government’s smart city scheme, there was widespread disappointment and ...
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London’s first Muslim mayor doesn’t want to be typecast
Shyam Bhatia, London
Just days after being elected with a significant majority, Sadiq Ameen Khan has already distanced himself from the far Left ...
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Heritage showdown in Kolkata
Saibal Chatterjee, Kolkata
In the lanes and bylanes of the busy shopping district of Gariahat in South Kolkata, an intense battle is being ...
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Delhi dog count rolls on: Paharganj, a mixed bag
Reporting: Donita Jose | Pictures: Ajit Krishna
It is early in the morning and the usually busy locality of Paharganj in north Delhi is deserted and mostly ...
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First serious dog count in India begins in Delhi
Reporting: Donita Jose | Pictures: Ajit Krishna
Day one of India’s first professional dog count began in Delhi’s Paharganj neighbourhood on Thursday, 12th May when researchers set ...
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Life after death for Bengaluru’s lakes
S. Vishwanath, Bengaluru
It is a sizzling hot day, unusual for Bengaluru. Students of the Srishti Institute for Art, Design and Technology, as ...
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Is AAP govt's choice of odd-even a farce?
Civil Society News, New Delhi
In April, residents of the National Capital Region (NCR) usually brace themselves for the onset of summer and dust storms ...
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Delhi gets ready to count dogs on its streets
Abida Khan, New Delhi
Every Indian city has a growing population of stray dogs. In fact it’s hard to find a street or a ...
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Gurgaon residents to produce, sell solar power
Civil Society News, Gurgaon
Bestech Park View Residency is basking in solar power glory. It is all set to be the first gated community ...
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Social Cops know to get the real data story
Sanjay Singh, New Delhi
Pramila lives in a slum in west Delhi. She built her house from the savings she made with a self-help ...
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Child health sinks in slums
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A household survey carried out by CRY (Child Relief and You) in 15 slums of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and ...
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FAT girls teach poor women how to use technology
Kavita Charanji, New Delhi
Women don’t take to technology as quickly as men. They aren’t always confident or nimble with smartphones, computers and various ...
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Odd and even done, where can Delhi go on pollution?
Civil Society News, News Delhi
The odd and even number plate experiment with personal cars delivered many surprises in a city swamped by pollution and ...
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Mohali uses app to clean up, fix civic problems
Ajit Krishna, Mohali
Mohali has been cleaning up its act. A toll-free helpline is available for citizens to lodge civic complaints. And now ...
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Easier to help accident victims with new policy
Ayushman Kumar, New Delhi
New guidelines have been issued by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) to make it easier for passersby ...
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A day with dead poets
NIghat Gandhi
There are three must-do things for a visitor to Lucknow, said the cab driver: ‘Tunday kabab khaen, Imambara dekhen aur ...
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Lokpal in A Hurry
Civil Society News, New Delhi
A high-voltage campaign to draft in record time a major anti-corruption law for India won concessions from the government in ...
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