DDA's draft plan for P-II zone talks about a highrise sub-city, complete with leisure valley, museum, open-air theatres, etc Ambika Pandit | TNN Skyscrapers complete with helipads to help residents reach their workplaces in a matter of minutes, new apartments for 4.22 lakh families

Deal And Govt Will Survive: Lalu A day after Sonia Gandhi asked the Congress to get ready for elections, CPM announced that it would withdraw support to the UPA government if it took the

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A Hyderabad TOI campaign has resulted in the revoking of all tree-cutting permissions in the city. Environmentalist Bittu Sahgal gets nostalgic about the slain banyan tree that triggered it all

Washington: Climate experts have warned that the world might have already reached the tipping point of climate change, where immediate actions needed to be done to reduce the effects of global warming. According to a report in Discovery News, the scientist who first put forward this theory is Nasa climate scientist James Hansen. Though Hansen had earlier warned about the dangers of climate change in 1988, his latest theory determines that "we have used up all slack in the schedule for actions needed to defuse the global warming time bomb.'

Ex-Army Researcher Sued US Govt For Publicly Naming Him During 2001 Scare Washington: A former army scientist who was named as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks will receive $5.8 million to settle his lawsuit against the justice department. Steven Hatfill claimed the justice department violated his privacy rights by speaking with reporters about the case.

Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: One in every 10 diseases and 6% of all deaths globally are caused by unsafe water and improper hygiene. In India, 1.03 crore people die annually of which, nearly 7.5%

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It's In Line With International Commitments Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The National Action Plan on Climate Change has been finalised and would in all probability released by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday. After two rounds of to and fro between different lobbies in the climate change council and within the government, the plan finally weds India's international negotiating stance with a domestic agenda on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Retired IIT Kanpur professor G D Agarwal is currently on a hunger strike against the proposed construction of more dams on the Bhagirathi-Ganga. Sunday Times reports on his struggle