As per the 1956 revenue records, there were at least 640 water bodies in Gurugram. These have reduced to just 251 such bodies, show the 2018-19 revenue records. This indicates that 389 water bodies have been lost. read more

Spot visits on Sunday and Monday by a Hindustan Times team revealed that the “sewage lake” is of a considerable size, a few hundred metres in length and width. read more

At present, the Delhi government does not have exact data about drains or the sewerage network, due to which the concerned departments have been unable to employ specific solutions for sewer and other problems related with drainage system. read more

officials of the public works department (PWD) have sent the government a proposal asking for Rs 66 crore to repair the road and construct a drainage system read more

Even through the truck nearly broke through the boundary wall of a house after tipping over, no damage was reported, eyewitnesses said. read more

Little by little, ever since it was invented, this man-made ‘wonder’ has found its way into most of the things around us. HT looks back at the pre-plastic era and draws up a timeline of our growing dependency on plastic read more

Officials say haphazard planning, concrete drains, unchecked realty boom cause repeated waterlogging. read more

Flooding last month disrupted traffic of local and outstation trains on the suburban network read more

A look at the main reasons Delhi comes to a standstill every time it rains in the city read more

The city depends mainly on the nullahs for drainage as sewerage systems in many parts of the city are non-operational read more

Though the Mohali MC claims it has cleaned 80% of the road gullies and is ready to take on the monsoon, the ground reality seems shaky and the councillors are worried. read more

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has completed widening and deepening of Chamdawadi storm water drain. read more

The fire has generated a haze blanketing parts of Myanmar’s commercial hub and raised concerns about public health. It has spread across nearly a third of the 300-acre landfill in Yangon’s northern township of Hlaing Thar Yar read more

The mayor called the meeting on Thursday with former sarpanches and elected representatives of these villages at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj auditorium at the PMC headquarters. read more