Columns, which should measure at least 9×9 inches, are often visibly thinner, raising questions about their load-bearing capacity Rooftops of adjoining buildings in PG clusters nearly touch across narrow lanes, with a web of dangling power cables between them, leaving little room for fire engines or emergency vehicles to pass in case of a blaze…
Noida: Across Mamura, Chhalera, Sadarpur and Rasoolpur Nawada villages, multi-storey buildings offering cheap, one-room paying guest (PG) accommodations have come up on land zoned for no more than two floors, rising instead to six, seven and even nine storeys. Rooftops of adjoining buildings nearly touch each other across the narrow lanes, with a web of…
Two dumpsite fires broke out in the Sector 32 dumping ground Noida: For a city of more than 14 lakh people, the waste problem is growing faster than the space to contain it. More than 120 tonnes of horticulture waste is generated every day, even as its two major dumping grounds are already stretched beyond…
Ghaziabad: A man and his mother have been granted anticipatory bail in a dowry harassment case. His wife, in her complaint, had accused him of allegedly filming obscene videos and circulating them on social media. The court, however, granted them relief after noting that no evidence supporting the allegation had been brought on record. It…
Ghaziabad: UP Pollution Control Board issued a closure order to 15 hotels, banquet halls, restaurants and malls for operating without environmental clearances over the last two years. It also identified 58 more establishments against which a show-cause is likely to be issued after vetting by officials from Lucknow.In an affidavit filed before National Green Tribunal…
On multiple stretches, utility ducts like electric lines and pipelines have been left open after the revamp work was over Ghaziabad: Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation commissioner has once again pulled up contractors over the slow progress of Chief Minister Green Road Infrastructure Development Urban (CM-GRID) scheme road projects in Indirapuram and Kaushambi. He carried out a…
A protest was held on Tuesday by the residents Noida: Residents of Cleo County in Sector 121 protested on Tuesday against a 40% increase in common area maintenance charges and its retrospective application from April this year. The 25-acre society has more than 2,500 units and residents living in 1,450 of them have signed a…
The authorities are examining where the accused got the firecrackers from and the purpose for which they were being stored Noida: A 39-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for storing a large amount of firecrackers in a warehouse in Shahberi without a licence, police said. An officer said the seized firecrackers are worth around Rs…
Ghaziabad: The district has reported three scrub typhus cases this year after recording no infections in 2024 and 2025, health officials said. Cases were detected in Patla in Muradnagar, Anil Vihar in Khoda and Khoda Colony. The district had reported 39 cases in 2021, four in 2022 and 15 in 2023.Officials said they have intensified…
Police said the disposal was conducted in accordance with prescribed procedures through an authorised agency Noida: Police destroyed more than 972kg of narcotic substances, with a total value of over Rs 5.2 crore, under Operation Dahan. The destruction was carried out on Tuesday under the supervision of the DCP (narcotics) following court orders. The contraband…
