Finding parking space in the city is becoming an impossible task and with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) yet to furnish a list of parking sites along the 2,183 notified commercial and mixed land use stretches

Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN

New Delhi: This is as big as it gets. To be precise, it is Rs 60,000 crore of foreign direct investment in Indian projects.
The inflation-flogged industrial sector was cheered up on Friday by the Supreme Court, which greenlighted the start of work at the much-delayed Rs 55,000 crore steel plant by Korean chaebol Posco and the stalled Rs 5,000 crore alumina refinery by the Sterlite group

Year 2010 could be a landmark for city transport. With the state transport department having drawn up an elaborate makeover plan to improve the Capital's public transport system, you may be tempted to dump your car and hop on to a train, bus or cab. And, if the plan on paper is anything to go by, all this will be comfortable, accessible, reliable and easy on your pocket too.

Saibal Dasgupta | TNN

Beijing: Prithviraj Chauhan, the Prime Minister's envoy on nuclear issue, spent an hour with Dai Bingguo, the state councilor and chief political adviser to the Chinese government on Tuesday, trying to sell India's nuclear case. But the Chinese leadership made it apparent that it will keep its cards close to its chest.

The Chhattisgarh forest department has issued orders to shoot a wild elephant responsible for the death of eight villagers in Jashpur district over a span of three months. Jashpur divisional forest officer O P Yadav told TOI,

Geneva: The nine-day laborious WTO talks to salvage the Doha trade round collapsed on Tuesday after the US was locked in a deadlock with India and China over import rules for farm products. WTO chief Pascal Lamy said, "the core group of seven nations, including India, US, EU, China and Brazil, failed to reach a convergence over Special Safeguard Mechanism sought by developing countries against agriculture imports.

Pankaj Doval & Rupali Mukherjee | TNN

New Delhi: Auto and consumer durables industries are fearing a slowdown as interest rates are expected to rise after RBI's decision to hike CRR and repo rate.
Sales may go down as customers would not be much inclined to enter showrooms with auto loans rates are going up, say car makers. "This will put further pressure on growth, as the market sentiment is already down,' says Arvind Saxena, Senior V-P at Hyundai India.

The world can ill afford to haggle over climate change

Brahma Chellaney

Climate change has been correctly identified as a threat multiplier. Yet it has already become a divisive issue, with the danger that the rich nations' efforts to lock in their advantages by revising the 1992 Rio bargain and rejigging their Kyoto Protocol obligations through a new regime could create another global divide between haves and have-nots

After a resounding success in Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore, the Surf Excel Children's Festival, in association with The Times of India, is all set to mesmerise the children, parents and teachers alike in Delhi from July 31 till August 4

Govt To Invoke LPG Control Order Under ECA

Ambika Pandit | TNN

New Delhi: After six intensive raids in the past four months and 217 prosecutions, the weights and measures department finds that LPG continues to be stolen and siphoned off from domestic cylinders into the black market.

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