Bihar has set out to match Mumbai with its own version of the Marine Drive. The 21.5km Ganga Path, coming up in Patna by June 2015, will be one of the country’s biggest public-private-partnership projects at an estimated cost of Rs 2,234.46 crore. The Bihar State Road Development Corporation will in November finalise one of six leading construction companies that it has shortlisted. The government has signed a deal with Transparency International to ensure transparency in the bidding process.

Chinese officials clamped down on air pollution during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, giving researchers an unusual opportunity to assess the effects of polluted air on the risks for cardiovascular disease.

Researchers examined 125 healthy young doctors, average age 24, before, during and after the Games, measuring their heart rates and blood pressure and testing their blood for various biomarkers associated with cardiovascular disease and death.

Mumbai has emerged as the second-most liveable city in the world, according to an Ericsson ConsumerLab survey. The liveability factor has been tied to connectivity. Stockholm topped the list.

India's business capital has in the survey outranked cities such as New York, London and Los Angeles.

The 30-minute online survey (with 1,500 participants per city) was carried out in Cairo, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Stockholm, Beijing, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, Seoul, London, Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong.

The Transport Ministry in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has commenced a technical cooperation project to conduct a comprehensive study and formulate an urban transport master plan for the Colombo metropolitan region.

The Transport department on Monday said it will file an FIR against Col B B Sharan, who filed a PIL questioning the viability of the BRT corridor, after he got Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System (DIMTS) officials to demolish kerbstones separating BRT lane from the rest of the road. The kerbstones were removed on Saturday night after Sharan told DIMTS officials that the study team had been permitted to remove barriers if needed.

Following its proposal to increase the parking charges in the city to Rs 50 during peak hours and Rs 30 during non-peak hours, the Transport department on Wednesday issued a public notice inviting suggestions and objections. The increased parking rates will be applicable for three-hour parking time. The department, however, is still to specify the what are the peak and non-peak hours.

The civic bodies of Delhi have asked the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to provide land for parking in case of land-use change or regularisation of unauthorised colonies. The DDA’s review of the Master Plan 2021 is going on, with several open houses being held to hear residents’ suggestions. South Corporation Commissioner Manish Gupta said, “There is a major parking problem in the city and if the government regularises unauthorised colonies or changes land-use from residential to commercial, the need for parking space arises.

New Delhi: Keen to ensure that there is no further delay in construction of a multilevel parking in Khan Market, the Delhi high court has asked the authorities to quickly finalize a layout plan. HC asked New Delhi Municipal Council and the urban development ministry officials to meet on April 21 and finalize
the layout. In case it requires more meetings, HC said, the agencies must continue to meet till the time a workable layout is drawn up.