Urban Development  

Meerut Metro, India's fastest metro service, is set to launch soon with a speed of 120 km/h, covering a 23 km route with 13 stations and modern amenities. Explore its key features and route.

Amitabh Bachchan shares his exhilarating first drive through Mumbai's undersea tunnel, describing it as a marvel. Fans praise his enthusiasm. The tunnel is part of the Coastal Road project aiming to ease traffic congestion

Walled city of Jaipur was formally accorded World Heritage City status on Wednesday by UNESCO. Director-General Audrey Azoulay presented the World Heritage Certificate for this Rajasthan city to the state's Urban Development and Housing (UDH) minister Shanti Dhariwal. With this, Jaipur becomes the 38th site in India to get the UNESCO World Heritage Status. The city is also home to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites Amber Fort and Jantar Mantar. Let’s find out more about this world heritage city in this episode of Culture ‘Shauk’ with Sunita Iyer.

With single-use plastic banned in India, the Himachal Pradesh government has come up with a buy-back policy to help traders dispose of their old stock of the banned product
 

Actor turned politician and chief of the Janasena Party, Pawan Kalyan has taken a vow to fight for the rights of farmers. This after talks of shifting the Andhra Pradesh capital were raised. 
 

Mamata Banerjee's minister for urban development and Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim isn't happy with 7-phase Bengal poll and wants one phase elections like Gujarat in Bengal.

The Bengal urban development minister and Kolkata mayor expressed his unhappiness about poll dates colliding with Ramzan.

According to the charge sheet, plot C-17 in Sector-6, Panchkula, was re-allotted to AJL, which publishes the National Herald newspaper, by violating rules and the then chief minister Hooda granted land against the advice of his officers. The CBI’s FIR said, AJL filed an appeal against Haryana Urban Development Authority’s (HUDA) decision before HUDA administrator which was dismissed

On October 30, the  Urban Development Ministry had issued a notice to the publisher asking it to vacate the premises at ITO in Delhi. The publisher had challenged the order on Monday 

Here are the interesting facts about Union minister Ananth Kumar from earlier stages of his life. He passed away in Bengaluru at 2 AM today.

 

Bengal minister of urban development and municipal affairs, Firhad Hakim, called it's a 'small depression, no crack'. In the past five years, three bridges across Kolkata have collapsed