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'Bengaluru was not built for huge population': Karnataka Minister G Parameshwara

His remarks came after Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar recently stated that "even God can't fix Bengaluru’s traffic issue."

Karnataka minister G Parameshwara. (PTI)

Updated on Feb 22, 2025 11:06 AM IST

ByHT News Desk | Edited by Anagha Deshpande

India has big renewable potential but land conflict could hamper boost: Report

India currently has an installed RE capacity of 150 GW, and up to 1,500 GW, the constraints are relatively manageable, the report said.

Workers clean solar panels after sunset at the 100 MW solar power plants operated by Ayana Renewable Power Pvt. in Tuticorin, India on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg(Bloomberg)

Updated on Sep 12, 2024 06:02 PM IST

ByJayashree Nandi

Traffic, unruly auto drivers, bad last-mile connectivity plague Malad

Malad, Mumbai, once a peaceful village, now houses a million people with traffic jams due to insufficient infrastructure. Proposed flyover aims to ease congestion.

Despite earning the tag of a bustling business district, the traffic jams, an insufficient public transport system and infrastructure and poor last-mile connectivity has rendered working in Malad an unpleasant experience (Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Mar 04, 2024 06:52 AM IST

ByMegha Sood

On reality of caste, Bihar holds a mirror

25 years ago, it gave the country a chance to see the Constitution’s morality being upheld. This time it is offering a cue on the caste census

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav, Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Vijay Kumar Sinha and other leaders during all parties’ meeting on Bihar Caste Census at the CM Secretariat on Tuesday. (PTI)

Published on Oct 16, 2023 10:14 PM IST

ByGopalkrishna Gandhi

Plans afoot for Noida-like development in Bundelkhand

Industrial, residential, commercial townships to be developed on 14,258 ha land in 36 villages in Jhansi; ₹5,000 crore earmarked for purchase of land

There is a proposal for an airport in Bundelkhand, which would be close to Madhya Pradesh border. (Pic for representation)

Updated on Aug 05, 2023 03:06 AM IST

Delhi govt plans to boost EV charging infra in city

As per the charging infrastructure action plan for 2022-25, the transport department will set up 18,000 public EV charging stations across the city by 2024.

The Delhi government earlier said that it aims to make 25% of all registered vehicles in Delhi an EV. (HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 17, 2023 05:00 AM IST

State-level Himachal Day function at Kaza to connect with tribals, says CM Sukhu

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said the State-level Himachal Day function would serve as a suitable platform to present the culture, traditions and specialities of our tribal areas to the country and the world

Sukhu said that equitable and balanced development of scheduled areas and the welfare of tribal people is top priority of the Himachal Pradesh government. (HT File Photo)

Updated on Apr 14, 2023 10:57 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Shimla

XBB 1.16 mild in nature, Pune experts call for elderly to take booster dose

Experts in Pune, India have warned that the new Covid variant XBB 1.16 is one to watch, as it is mild but highly infectious and can evade natural and vaccine-induced immunity. Elderly and those with co-morbidities have been advised to take the booster dose. XBB 1.16 is a recombinant sub-variant of Omicron and is one of more than 600 Omicron sub-variants. Pune district reported 90 fresh Covid cases, with 730 active cases, while Maharashtra reported one death and 542 new cases, taking the active cases in the state to 4,360.

Though the variant is mild in nature, it is highly infectious due to its ability to evade natural and vaccine-induced immunity. (REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE)

Updated on Apr 08, 2023 10:47 PM IST

ByVicky Pathare

1.4 billion, the whole and the parts: A tale told in puzzles, by Kabir Firaque

How many years would it take to count to this tally, at a number per second? How many squares on a chessboard, if each held twice the sum of its predecessor?

If humans formed a queue in space, maintaining a safe distance of one metre between every two individuals, Indians (or Chinese) alone would be more than enough to get from Earth to the Moon (roughly 384 million metres away). (Pixabay)

Updated on Aug 03, 2023 01:54 PM IST

ByKabir Firaque

Home developers’ body submits memorandum in support of fourth floor

Gurugram Home Developers? Association has submitted a memorandum to a special committee formed by Haryana government to look into issues surrounding the construction of a fourth floor on residential plots. The state government banned construction of the fourth floor in February, citing a potential violation of density norms and pressure on infrastructure in the colonies. The association has said hundreds of plot buyers across the state have purchased plots with the objective of building four floors, and money has been invested by buyers that has now been stuck due to the ban.

Gurugram, India-January 13, 2023: A view of Indra colony Wazirabad village; MCG has allowed the subdivision of 100 sq yards plots and allowed registration of upto 50 sq yards in areas under its jurisdiction, in Gurugram, India, on Friday, 13 January 2023. (Photo by Parveen Kumar)(Pic to go with Abhishek's story)

Updated on Apr 07, 2023 12:38 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

China's population dips 1st time since 1960s, India likely to overtake soon

The latest official data showed that China's population stood at around 1,411,750,000 (1.4 billion) at the end of 2022, which is a drop of 850,000 from the end of the previous year.

In 2022, China's birth rate was 6.77 births per 1,000 people, down from a rate of 7.52 births in the previous year and as a result, marked the lowest birth rate on record, the NBS said. (REUTERS/Tingshu Wang)

Updated on Jan 17, 2023 10:47 AM IST

BySharangee Dutta, New Delhi

India urban cities to see population explosion in coming decades: Report

The UN projects that India's population will rise from its current 1.4 billion to overtake China's and peak at 1.7 billion in the 2060s, before dropping back to 1.5 billion by the start of the next century.

In this photograph taken on October 22, 2022, people crowd at a market in the old quarters of New Delhi. - India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) / To go with 'India-Population-Climate-Health', FOCUS(AFP)

Published on Nov 08, 2022 04:15 PM IST

AFP | | Posted by Nisha Anand

Covid-19 is spreading both in terms of numbers and geography. Follow protocols

India must test, isolate and treat with even greater intensity, and spread the network of labs, hospitals and expertise to the country’s rural pockets, where they will be needed the most in coming weeks.

Labourers load grocery items on to a supply truck, Kolkata, July 24, 2020(REUTERS)

Updated on Aug 31, 2020 12:27 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Shifting of Ambala oil terminal gathers pace, truckers protest

Locals have long demanded that the terminal be shifted because of the high population density around it and its proximity to the railway lines and the national highway

The shifting of the 40-acre terminal has been pending for years(HT Photo)

Updated on Aug 19, 2020 09:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times/Ambala | ByBhavey Nagpal, Ambala

Why social distancing is tough to implement

The first problem in implementing social distancing in India could be its population density itself.

Social distancing has been recommended as a preventive measure against coronavirus.

Updated on Mar 18, 2020 03:07 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAbhishek Jha and Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa

Coronavirus in India: Are people safe or should they worry? | Analysis

Microsoft founder and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair Bill Gates has called the coronavirus a “once-in-a-century pandemic” in an op-ed in the New England Journal of Medicine and urged countries to both “solve the immediate problem and keep it from happening again” even as global markets are on course for their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis.

India so far has managed to contain the infection, with three students from Wuhan diagnosed with Covid-19 in Kerala leaving quarantine after being cured.(HT PHOTO.)

Updated on Feb 29, 2020 05:24 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySanchita Sharma

Delhi HC pulls up agency over East Kidwai Nagar project

The remark came after the UTTIPEC counsel cited an HT report published on Monday detailing the three options under consideration to ease congestion.

The court said it does not appear that the project was designed to reduce population density and traffic.(Vipin Kumar/HT PHOTO)

Updated on May 21, 2019 09:25 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByRicha Banka

Failing to acknowledge urbanisation undermines quality of life

India is more urban than the official numbers suggest. If thresholds for the categorisation of cities are relaxed, India moves from about a quarter urban to about a half and even more

Rural Local Bodies (RLBs) and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) were designed to cater to the varying governance needs of urban and rural areas. But urbanisation has pushed cities beyond boundaries, rapidly populating the peripheries(Sunil Ghosh/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Apr 16, 2019 11:39 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByKadambari Shah and Harshita Agrawal

Mumbai civic body thinks of constructing eight link roads to smoothen commute

Missing links to cut distance between select locations by at least half, says BMC

According to an official, once the missing links are constructed, the distance between select spots will be reduced to less than half the present distance(Satyabrata Tripathy/HT Photo)

Updated on Jan 14, 2019 08:35 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByEeshanpriya M S, Mumbai

Air pollution: Reactive, band-aid solutions will not solve the problem

Crop stubble burning is not new. We must explore other practical solutions to end the polluting practice

Farmers who burn crop residue in northern India do so knowingly and because they don’t have an alternate economical and viable option. As the first inhalers of that choking smoke, much before it gets into any city dwellers’ lungs, they’re also early sufferers(Burhaan Kinu/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Nov 01, 2018 05:49 PM IST

ByJyoti Pande Lavakare

Human-tiger conflict may rise in Corbett due to shrinking forests, settlements in buffer area: Study

From 1990 to 2015, the forest cover in the buffer of Corbett Tiger Reserve shrunk from 55% to 43%, human settlements increased from over 4% to 9% and agricultural area from 26% to 31%, says the study.

An earlier Uttarakhand high court order stressed that Corbett corridor was the most significant habitat for wildlife, such as tigers, elephants, leopards, bears and around 600 bird species.(Picture for representation)

Published on Aug 25, 2018 02:06 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Nainital | ByNeeraj Santoshi

Delhi high court restrains NBCC from handing over commercial space in East Kidwai Nagar

Putting an interim stay on allotment, Justice Vibhu Bhakru of Delhi high court observed that there was no clarity on how the requirement for water would be met and also sought to know whether adequate arrangements had been made to handle traffic in the area.

The application contended that the project would increase the population density at least by double and block traffic around two hospitals — AIIMS and Safdarjung.(File Photo)

Updated on Aug 22, 2018 01:46 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByRicha Banka

SC raps govt for giving thermal plants more time to comply with emission norms

The court directed the government to identify thermal plants that have a capacity of more than 500 Mega Watt and are located in areas having population density of more than 400 persons per square kilometre.

The court recalled that as per December 2015 notification the plants were to adhere to the emission regulations by December 2017 but a fresh government affidavit states that the deadline for plants to comply with the earlier directive has been extended till 2022.(AFP file photo)

Published on Jul 25, 2018 11:21 PM IST

New Delhi, Hindustan Times | ByBhadra Sinha

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