New Delhi: The majestic Rajpath was completely choked on Monday as numerous vehicles of visiting political leaders were parked at the historic stretch in the heart of the Capital.

As the parking lots around Parliament filled up, vehicles of leaders headed to see the debate on confidence motion were parked on all the nearby roads in Luytens' Delhi. The spillover reached Rajpath too, where the traffic police first allowed parking in two general parking lots located on both sides of the road.

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Indian cos big carbon credit hedgers

The risk-taking ability of an Indian entrepreneur, coupled with his penchant for maximising returns has resulted in India having the largest number of unsold carbon credits among all carbon markets in the world. According to Green Ventures, India currently has over 46 million unsold carbon credits. This means over 40% of world's unsold CERs (certified emission reductions) or carbon credits are from India.

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The reopening of schools after the summer break has thrown the city into a severe CNG crisis. The waiting time at filling stations, which was just 5-10 minutes at the beginning of the year, has increased to an average of three to four hours, leading to serpentine queues and traffic bottlenecks at CNG pumps.

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RW Urges Govt To End Support To Vigilantes A day before the Centre takes stock of the situation in four major Naxal-affected states, international human rights organization Human Rights Watch on Tuesday questioned the role of security forces and Salwa Judum (anti-Naxalite citizens' movement) for their "involvement in numerous violent abuses' and urged the government to end all support to vigilantes.

Taking a leaf out of Bihar's book, the department of information technology (DIT) has come up with the idea of setting up an RTI call centre which will allow applicants to seek information over the phone from any of the central government departments and organizations across the country. The call centre will save citizens the trouble not only of writing and posting the RTI applications to different public authorities but also of buying postal orders or demand drafts for paying the nominal fee of Rs 10.

High Sugar Levels Impair One's Ability To Fight Infection: Study Diabetes has now been found to be fuelling India's deadly tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. In fact, according to researchers, it may be to blame for more than 10% of TB cases in India and China.

Nitin Sethi | TNN Who is opposed to the Forest Rights Act meant to recognize rights of tribals and others over forest lands? Besides the staunch wildlife NGOs and activists, it seems the other group dead set against the Act is the retired forest officials. Now one more petition has been filed by another set of retired forest officials in the Orissa high court against the implementation of the Act. The sixth petition now sitting in the state high courts is by an ex-zamindar of the land what is now a tiger reserve and has tribals living in it.