The BIS drinking water specification (IS 10500:1991), which is a voluntary standard, was drawn up in 1983. It was last revised 17 years ago. A revision initiated in 2003, is still in its draft stage.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit expressed confidence that polio would soon be eliminated from the Capital.

The Supreme Court today told the Centre that Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) cannot claim monopoly in supply of CNG in areas around the Capital, including Faridabad and Gurgaon in Haryana and Noida and

THE taps are beginning to run dry in the Capital, although summer's scarcely begun. It's symbolic of a deep-seated problem in the water sector.

As many as 42,000 women from rural areas in Delhi, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh have learned to read and write.

The Delhi unit of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced that the party would order an

The chaos on the roads points to the alarming fallout of the huge rise in vehicle population. Pedestrians, the bulk of the urban poor, are affected most of all.

Cleaning The River By 2010 Is A Tall Order, Environmentalists Sceptical Of Govt Claims.

Keeping up its reputation of beating deadlines, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has completed construction work on its brand new railway bridge across the Yamuna in a record time of 26 months.

MCD officials today said the engineered sanitary landfill site, which the civic body is developing at Jaitpur, will be ready by December this year.

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