A Japanese delegation visited the pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor between Ambedkar Nagar and Moolchand on Tuesday morning and declared it to be

North Delhi Power Limited(NDPL) has been awarded Edison Award, thus becoming the first power distribution utility from India to be honoured at an international level. NDPL officials said the award was presented to discom for operational excellence in the electric industry and for innovative utilization and using Geographical Information System (GIS) for network planning, operations, commercial and asset management.

If you are lucky you might get through one of the listed numbers of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) control rooms. Delhiites who have been calling to complain about waterlogging say that the listed numbers are either continuously busy or they have to call for hours to get through. Meanwhile, the civic agency maintains that there is no such problem. Said director, press and information, MCD, Deep Mathur:

For the first time in 108 years, monsoon has hit the Capital this early. But though its onset has been premature, the rainfall has been very good this year and well distributed. Between June 1 and June 15, the overall rainfall across India has been 44% above normal. And in the northwestern zone, which includes Delhi, the overall rainfall has been 194% above normal during the same period.

The city's cellphone services could get a jolt if the Delhi Pollution Control Committee's latest move to curb noise and air pollution is taken to its logical end. Waking up to the hazards of cellphone towers in residential areas, the committee has sent out notices to the seven cellphone service providers in Delhi to set things right in three weeks.

The meeting of the UPA-Left panel on the India-US nuclear deal on Wednesday could well be the final opportunity for the controversial pact to go through before both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US president George Bush reach the end of their tenures in office.

The price rise has moved beyond commodities and fine decimal points

India's steel production is likely to surpass the domestic requirement by 2011-12, easing pressure on prices of the alloy, which has been adding to the spiralling inflation. "We shall achieve 124 million tonnes of steel capacity by 2011-12, well exceeding the requirement that would be to the tune of about 110 million tonnes at that point of time,' steel minister Ram Vilas Paswan said.

Kuala Lumpur: Inflation in Asia will hit 5.1% in 2008 due to surging food and fuel prices and could threaten economic growth in the region, the Asian Development Bank warned.

Rising research and development(R&D) initiatives in the pharma sector has made India a more mature place for drug discovery activities than China, says a report. Further, the report prepared by US-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation noted that Indian companies are playing a strategic role in early drug discovery processes due to their vast experience in the field of generic drugs.