Abhinaya Harigovind is a senior correspondent with the national bureau of The Indian Express, covering education as a beat. Working with The Indian Express since July 2021, she was a reporter with the Delhi city team of the paper, covering environment and climate change. She has also worked with The Hindu in Kerala. She tweets @abhi__naya

September 09, 2022 01:50 IST
At the inauguration, workers at the site who were acknowledged by Modi say ‘were making history’
Fri, Sep 09, 2022
September 08, 2022 11:18 IST
Central Vista inauguration Highlights, PM Modi to unveil new Central Vista Avenue today: The new-look stretch covers lawns on either side of Rajpath — now renamed as Kartavya Path — from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate, covering around 101 acres.
Thu, Sep 15, 2022
September 08, 2022 04:04 IST
The new-look stretch covers lawns on either side of the two-kilometre long Rajpath -- now renamed as Kartavya Path — from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate, covering around 101 acres. They have been replanted with different species of grass appropriate to location, according to sources associated with the project.
Thu, Sep 08, 2022
September 06, 2022 02:17 IST
Sureshwar Sinha was 88, and had been unwell for the past couple of years. Sinha, who was from Bihar, was commissioned in the Indian Navy in 1954, and was the Commanding Officer of INS Kadmatt, an anti-submarine ship, in the late 1960s.
Tue, Sep 06, 2022
September 05, 2022 09:58 IST
Of around 5,575 trees present at the AIIMS project site, 1,910 trees are to be transplanted and 731 will be cut. The remaining 2,934 trees will be retained at the site.
Mon, Sep 05, 2022
September 04, 2022 09:14 IST
Of about 16,461 trees that were transplanted in Delhi in the past three years, only 33.33% have survived so far, according to data submitted before the Delhi High Court in an affidavit by the Forest Department in May this year.
Mon, Sep 05, 2022
September 02, 2022 01:30 IST
The State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) considered the proposal for environmental clearance at a meeting held Wednesday. While it granted environmental clearance, the SEIAA made strong observations about the tree preservation aspect of the project.
Fri, Sep 02, 2022
September 01, 2022 01:28 IST
The proposal has been recommended to the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), which will now examine it for clearance.
Thu, Sep 01, 2022
August 31, 2022 07:32 IST
Altogether, in the four forest divisions, a total of 4,09,046 saplings were to be planted as part of compensatory afforestation and only 1,58,522 were planted, as per forest department records.
Wed, Aug 31, 2022
August 30, 2022 16:02 IST
Transplanted trees in general have a poor survival rate, but which kind of trees can be transplanted and how expensive is transplantation? What are the the steps involved in transplantation? We explain.
Wed, Aug 31, 2022
August 30, 2022 01:41 IST
The forest department’s estimate of the survival rate did not match the figure submitted by the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) to it. As per the affidavit, the CPWD estimated that 266 transplanted trees have survived.
Tue, Aug 30, 2022
August 21, 2022 02:04 IST
The Indian Express visited offices and residences whose addresses were mentioned in the CBI's FIR.
Sun, Aug 21, 2022
August 16, 2022 19:30 IST
Prior to demolition, around 736 flats in ATS Greens Village and 650 flats in Emerald Court are to be evacuated, according to the RWAs of the two apartment complexes
Tue, Aug 16, 2022
August 16, 2022 19:11 IST
The ‘charging’ of the two Supertech towers in Noida, slated for demolition on August 28, is on track to be completed by August 25.
Wed, Aug 17, 2022
August 13, 2022 04:11 IST
Discharge from Hathnikund barrage, located over the river in Haryana, determines the level of water downstream in Delhi. The peak discharge Friday was 1,49,849 cusecs at 1 am, lower than the peak of 2,21,786 cusecs recorded Thursday.
Sat, Aug 13, 2022
August 09, 2022 02:34 IST
The issue is over the transplantation of trees and the need to retain more trees at the site, a source said. The State Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC), which considers these proposals before they are sent to the SEIAA for clearance, examined the Executive Enclave project proposal at its meeting on Saturday.
Tue, Aug 09, 2022
August 05, 2022 19:58 IST
Sunil Kumar, who was Shankar’s coach at the school from class 8 onwards, said sweets have been distributed in the school multiple times since he bagged the medal with a jump of 2.22 m. Alumni of the school, too, have taken to social media with congratulatory messages.
Fri, Aug 05, 2022
August 05, 2022 01:56 IST
Older ghats dating back to the Mughal period like the Qudsia Ghat, built by Qudsia Begum, wife of Mughal emperor Mohammad Shah, in the 18th Century, may now be under what is now the Ring Road, said Divay Gupta, Principal Director, Architectural Heritage division, INTACH.
Fri, Aug 05, 2022
August 04, 2022 12:46 IST
A public hearing was planned in 2019 but shelved due to protest by the residents. Now, another public hearing is set to be held next month.
Fri, Aug 05, 2022
July 30, 2022 08:51 IST
There would be an average of 150 to 200 kikar trees on one hectare in the Ridge, officials say. The slow process of removing them is likely to go on for several years.
Sat, Jul 30, 2022
July 26, 2022 11:41 IST
Of the 3.6 hectares allotted to the MCD for a construction and demolition (C&D) waste processing facility in Tehkhand, 1.98 hectares fall in reserved forest area.
Tue, Jul 26, 2022
July 25, 2022 01:57 IST
The private builder had applied for environment clearance thrice, with the first application submitted in 2009.
Mon, Jul 25, 2022
July 19, 2022 01:31 IST
With the reallocation, the power available to discoms in Delhi has fallen and BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL), which supplies power to South and West Delhi will be hit the hardest.
Tue, Jul 19, 2022
July 17, 2022 02:50 IST
One of the proposals that the committee considered at its recent meeting was a project of the Public Works Department (PWD) to construct an elevated road along the riverbank from Wazirabad to DND.
Sun, Jul 17, 2022
July 15, 2022 19:54 IST
With most schools in Delhi affiliated to the CBSE and following the NCERT curriculum, students found that the questions in Friday’s papers drew from the syllabus they had studied in their schools.
Sat, Jul 16, 2022



