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City Buzz: How safe are our airports? | Ahmedabad hospital fire | Delhi EV policy…and more

August 10, 2020 News Desk

Important updates from cities on COVID-19, the Kozhikode air crash, Delhi’s new electric vehicles policy and more.

City Buzz: COVID: 1.5 cr tests done | Vaccine trials underway | Unsafe medical waste disposal in Mumbai… and more

July 28, 2020 News Desk

A quick recap of key COVID-19 updates and other urban highlights over the last one week.

City Buzz: Human trials for COVAXIN | Hyd gets India’s first contactless parking | Obese patients in focus in Gurugram…and more

July 20, 2020 News Desk

Cities and citizens continue to focus on devising responses and strategies to battle and defeat the COVID pandemic. Some recent updates on key urban developments on that front

City Buzz: Lockdown returns to several cities | Shortage of crucial COVID-19 drugs in Mumbai | Delhi to start interstate buses…and more

July 12, 2020 News Desk

Check out latest COVID-19 updates and other news from our cities over the week gone by

City Buzz: BMC gears up for Mumbai monsoon | Kolkata stops flights from six cities | Citizens oppose Hyderabad Pharma City… and more

July 6, 2020 News Desk

Catch some of the most important weekly updates from cities across India.

Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata attain 95% of clean air targets during lockdown

July 3, 2020 News Desk

The lockdown period helped researchers understand the effects of human-generated emissions; this could tell policy-makers how they may achieve what the NCAP has targetted in the coming four years.

City Buzz: Delhi fights to contain COVID-19 | Locust swarms enter Gurugram | Water scarcity looms over Mumbai… and more

June 28, 2020 News Desk

COVID-19 and other urban highlights from NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi.

Amend EIA Notification 2020, ‘an embarrassment to country internationally’: Students write to Environment Minister

June 27, 2020 News Desk

In an initiative spearheaded by an environmental group of Ashoka University, these youth have requested that the regulatory notification be deferred and rewritten as per recommendations by experts.

City Buzz: COVID-control in Mumbai, Bhopal | Mask rules flouted in Hyderabad and Ludhiana | Nagpur police crack down on illegal silencers… and more

June 22, 2020 News Desk

Cities are struggling to implement norms on masks and social distancing. Catch updates on this and other key urban highlights from the week that passed.

Urban Affairs ministry cites Chennai-Pune examples to push for pedestrian-only markets

June 11, 2020 News Desk

The advisory issued by MoHUA calls for at least three car-free market places in million plus cities, and at least one in others.

City Buzz: Malls in Noida-Ghaziabad to open | Weekend closure in Dehra | Mumbai panic over gas leak…and more

June 9, 2020 News Desk

A recap of some important headlines from cities around India over the last one week

City Buzz: Kolkata to open non-essential shops | Citizens protest over water in Aurangabad | New rules for Bhopal shops…and more

June 1, 2020 News Desk

Key news highlights of last week from Kolkata, NCR, Bhopal and other cities

City Buzz: Cyclone Amphan batters Kolkata | Drive-through COVID testing in Chandigarh | Mobile mortuaries in Mumbai… and more

May 25, 2020 News Desk

Even as the country continued to witness alarming spikes in COVID-19 cases, a devastating cyclone hit east India. News highlights of last week from the cities

City Buzz: Lockdown 3.0 | Cases in Agra on the rise | Non-COVID patients in Bengal worried

May 4, 2020 News Desk

A look back at some of the important news from last week

City Buzz: Mumbai and Delhi top COVID-positive list | NGT directive to CPCB |Small shops to reopen… and more

April 25, 2020 News Desk

A quick recap of important COVID updates from cities across India over the last seven days