Need to launch next phase of Smart Cities Mission: Parliamentary Committee

Need to launch next phase of Smart Cities Mission: Parliamentary Committee

Image for representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu A parliamentary committee has emphasised the need to launch the next phase of the Centre’s flagship Smart Cities Mission with a thrust on tier-2 cities located within 100 km of State capitals. The Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs also cautioned that digital infrastructure created under … Read more

ED conducts searches across three cities in ABG Shipyard case 

ED conducts searches across three cities in ABG Shipyard case 

View of the ABG shipyard in Mumbai. FILE | Photo Credit: PTI The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches in Delhi, Mumbai and Pune in connection with the ABG Shipyard Limited case involving loans of ₹22,842 crore extended by a consortium of banks. On Wednesday, the Central agency said the operation led to the seizure of … Read more

Luxury segment housing sales rise in top seven cities of India: Survey

Luxury segment housing sales rise in top seven cities of India: Survey

Image for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Sai Venkatesh CBRE South Asia Treal estate consulting firm announced the findings of the January-June ’23 residential sector survey data highlighting trends in the top seven cities in India. The luxury housing segment registered a 130% Y-o-Y increase in the period. Total sale of luxury units stood … Read more

Government mulling setting up eight new cities in country: Official

Government mulling setting up eight new cities in country: Official

A plan to develop eight new cities to alleviate population burden on the existing urban centres in the country is under consideration, a senior official said, in Indore, on May 18. “The 15th Finance Commission in one of its reports had recommended that new cities should be developed,” said M. B. Singh, director of the … Read more

Budget 2023 | Finance Minister pitches for 100% switch to mechanised sewer cleaning in all cities and towns

Budget 2023 | Finance Minister pitches for 100% switch to mechanised sewer cleaning in all cities and towns

File picture of a manual scavenger at work. Image for representation | Photo Credit: PTI Coming in with a nearly ₹100 crore allocation in this year’s Budget for the newly christened NAMASTE (National Action Plan for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem) scheme, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that the Union government is looking to enable … Read more

BeatO witnesses exponential YoY user base growth from tier 4 cities, Health News, ET HealthWorld

BeatO witnesses exponential YoY user base growth from tier 4 cities, Health News, ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: BeatO, a digital care platform for controlling and reversing diabetes, has announced that they have more than two million people with diabetes on their platform. The platform has seen its user base grow by 17x in the past five years. According to a recent Lancet report, India is home to approximately 77 million … Read more

Sameep Padora’s (de)Coding Mumbai exhibition

Sameep Padora’s (de)Coding Mumbai exhibition

Six years ago, Mumbai-based architect Sameep Padora was approached by a developer to design an affordable housing project, for which his firm conducted several field studies. He says that through this project, he found several beautiful examples of housing types responsive to the need for light and ventilation. “This study was published as a book … Read more

Ukraine: Premature babies struggling for life in bombed cities

Ukraine: Premature babies struggling for life in bombed cities

“When babies are premature, they need all sorts of medical attention, and increasingly that care has to come in bunkers where they don’t have the hygiene or facilities [and] are under bombardment,” said Unicef spokesman James Elder. “Attacking hospitals, indiscriminate attacks, preventing humanitarian aid for children – they’re clear breaches of international humanitarian law.” Source … Read more

‘Superbug’ Fungus Spreads Among Vulnerable in Two U.S. Cities

By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) — An untreatable “superbug” fungus is spreading in a Washington, D.C., nursing home and two Dallas-area hospitals, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. There were 101 candida auris cases at the nursing home and 22 cases at the hospitals from January … Read more

India Covid-19: Deadly second wave spreads from cities to small towns

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India’s deadly Covid-19 second wave has devastated big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow and Pune. Hospitals and crematoriums have run out of space, and funerals are taking place in car parks. But the pandemic has now firmly gripped many smaller cities, towns and villages where the devastation is largely under-reported. Source link