About 33,000 kilogrammes of outdated hazardous chemicals-pesticides and insecticides-have been lying in storage at a makeshift shed in Paro for the last two years as government officials from Bhutan

The Madhya Pradesh Government plans to mobilise funds from the World Bank, financial institutions and private sector for a Rs.205-crore Slum Networking Scheme for development of slums and

Bangladesh and Myanmar will conduct a joint investigation on a raucous dispute over construction of a dam across river

Slum-dwellers will be counted as a separate category in the coming census. This will give local governments an exact idea of the extent of the slum population in every city and make a realistic

On November 17, a review petititon was filed in the Supreme Court by the NBA asking for a review of the verdict, which it says "was delivered on false premises in respect of rehabilitation of

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has finally felt the heat of the compressed natural gas (CNG) crisis in the capital. He has convened a meeting on August 30 where petroleum minister Ram Naik, law

The government is planning to set up a human settlement academy for slum relocation in various cities. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation

Delhi's unplanned urbanisation woes are aptly summarised by the increase in the number of slum-dweller, which has swelled by 5,000 per cent over the past five decades. Settlers are estimated to be