The ministry of urban affairs is set to discuss the concept of safer cities with the officials of home departments of states and Union Territories. The discussions will form part of the two-day

The Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. Vijai kapur, constituted a committee to advise the Delhi Development Authority on the ways to preserve the Tughlakabad heritage zone and make it more attractive to

The Asian Development Bank has ranked Calcutta as the world's second "speediest" city after Seoul, according to West Bengal transport minister Subhash

In keeping with its promise in its National Agenda for Governance, the BJP-led Government today decided to grant full statehood to Delhi. It also moved a step closer to fulfilling its assurances on

With the July 1 deadline for the emission test for pollution control certification nearing, the agencies involved in enforcement are taking up a test campaign against polluting vehicles.The

The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Union Ministry of Urban Affairs and Employment and the Lieutenant -Governor of Delhi on a public interest litigation challenging the proposed

Road crashes will be third largest killer by the year 2020, ahead of war HIV and other infectious diseases. This was revealed by World Disasters Report, 1998. The report which is released annually

The government plans to construct 13 lakh houses in the rural areas in the current financial year in partnership with the private sector and also set up a Rural Housing and Habitat Development

The state government decided on 1 November 1997 to lease out 406.64 acres of tea garden land to a company for constructing a satellite township in Siliguri. But the company did not exist when the

The urban policy model initiated at Jawaharlal Nehru's instance for Delhi four decades ago, and then adopted by the rest of India, was formally abandoned as a gross mistake. Union urban affairs