Japan International Cooperation Agency, which funded Phase I and II of the Delhi Metro rail network, signed an agreement with India on Thursday for providing Rs.7,922 crore as soft loan for construction of Delhi Metro's Phase III that would add another 103 km to the network.

The agreement was signed between JICA, the official donor agency of the Government of Japan, and the Union Finance Ministry here.

Members of Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan, a civil society consortium working in the area of restoration of the Yamuna and its various tributaries, has written to Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways Dr. C. P. Joshi stating that “they were alarmed by the fact that the Ministry had recently sanctioned proposals from the Delhi Government to turn a few of the city drains into roads''.

Planned by British architects Chapman Taylor, and to be executed by the National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC), East Kidwai Nagar is an ambitious redevelopment project, pegged at an app

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Union Ministry for Environment & Forests, the Central Pollution Control Board and the Delhi Jal Boad on a petition by a social activist alleging that the release of effluents from the Capital's sewage treatment plants into water bodies was polluting them as well the ground water making it hazardous for use.

BJP MP Chandan Mitra on Tuesday blasted the Delhi government for ignoring a high court order to put on hold the implementation of the 5.8-km BRT corridor in south Delhi, which was “causing enormous

Bulk users now required to file annual returns by June-end

Bulk consumers of electrical and electronic equipment will now have to ensure that e-waste is deposited with the distributors or authorised collection centres, given to the registered dismantlers or recyclers, or sent back to the producers through pick-up or take-back services, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court on Monday expressed serious reservation over the Delhi chief secretary’s failure to honour its August 2011 order, asking him to detail the action taken following a CBI report abou

“Delhi despite being the Capital has one of the worst sex ratios of 866 females per 1,000 males according to 2011 census; the situation in the south-west district is one of the worst with the child sex ratio of 836 girls per 1,000 boys; and with low levels of awareness and nuclear families the aspiration and desire for male child is growing by each passing day,” said a release issued by Centre for Social Research.

‘Everybody, irrespective of where they are living should be given water to drink and for non-potable uses as well'

In the densely populated Sangam Vihar, water and its limited supply is often the reason for skirmishes between neighbours and the cause for street fights. In the absence of a well regulated water supply from the city's water utility, the Delhi Jal Board,

As its contribution for the construction of the 135.6 km long Delhi Western Peripheral Expressway

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday approved transfer of Rs 621 crores to the National Highway Authority of India as its contribution for construction of the Delhi Western Peripheral Expressway, which is also called the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP Expressway).