In one of the major decisions, and a long awaited once concerning at least 20,000 people in the peripheral areas of Shimla town, the Himachal Pradesh Cabinet today decided to withdraw the newly

Two months of the six-months extension which the Supreme Court gave for commercial vehicles in Delhi to change over to compressed natural gas (CNG) are almost over. There has been little progress as

Minister for Information N Siva Prasad has today announced that Holland and Italy has come forward to execute Urban Slums Development Programme in Andhra Pradesh. Speaking as chief guest at the

The traffic police have welcomed the Supreme Court's orders on industrial pollution and CNG whole-heartedly. Beleaguered by the rising incidence of pollution-related ailments, the apex court's order

The Delhi Development Authority, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Housing and Urban Development Corporation will soon undertake two pilot projects each to ascertain the "feasibility of commercial

Recognising the involvement of the builders in the massive loss of human lives in the recent Gujarat earthquake, the Union Government has decided to draft a Bill to regulate their activities.

Archeologists working in the windblown coastal desert of Peru have discovered the ruins of a city as old as ancient Egypt and more than 1,000 years older than any previously reported urban center in

The World Bank (WB) has in principle agreed to release a loan of Rs 1,635 crore out a total project cost of Rs 2,030 crore for upgrading and improving 2,300 kms of state highways in

The Ministry of Rural Development has taken a serious view of the "parallel structures" created by the Madhya Pradesh and Haryana Governments as against decentralised 3-tier Panchayat Raj system

The Mumbai transport authorities' commitment to checking the authenticity of CNG taxis has declined after the deadline expired on Saturday, allege petrol pump owners and taxi drivers. March 31 was