A parliament committee on ministry of urban development and poverty alleviation has charged the government for

Call it an irony of fate but it is a paradoxical fact that the Himalayan region is today facing an acute drinking water scarcity that is aggravating day by day thanks to drying up of rivulets and

Dolni, a tribal village in Madhya Pradesh was without the basic facilities like road, water and electricity during the last 55 years of independence. But MLA Harishankar Jaiswal had decided three

The Ring Road is going green

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's intent to project the human face of economic reforms may soon find place in a national policy for street vendors. As per instructions from the Prime Minister's

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit met the Lieutenant Governor Vijay Kapoor and told him that the formulation of a policy was needed for the demolition and relocation of slums from the Capital. The

In a major relief to builders, the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutional validity of a Banglore city building bye-law validating retrospectively all buildings of 165 feet high though the law

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, has written to the President, the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister, seeking their intervention to cancel the Union Environment Ministry's

Representatives of agencies working on the Bhoj Wetland Project have made an impassioned plea to the citizens to help in conserving and cleaning the Upper Lake, the major water reservoir of the

C. Sreenivasan, MP from Dindigul in Tamil Nadu has criticised the Ministry of Environment and Forests for issuing a 'unilateral' order banning the demolition and reconstruction of heritage buildings