Hemant Kumar

Kalka, May 12
Due to the negligent attitude of the department of Haryana water supply and sanitation, the project of setting up of four tubewells, boosting stations and water pipelines in Pinjore town to cope with the water scarcity problem is hanging fire for more than three years.

Once again the apex court has had to step in to avert a disaster. The wanton exploitation of western India

Supreme Court intervention welcome

Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern over large-scale ecological degradation, the Supreme Court on Friday ordered suspension of all mining activities in the 448 sq. km. area of the Aravalli Hill range falling in Haryana

The Supreme Court judgement ordering suspension of all mining activities in the 448 sq. km. area of the Aravalli Hill range falling in Haryana's districts of Faridabad and Gurgaon including Mewat.

It is a curious situation. On one hand, the government limits supply of gas

Reliance power-owned Sasan Power may have tied up Rs 14,550 crore of rupee loans from a clutch of banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) to achieve financial closure of the 4,000- MW ultra mega power project (UMPP) at Sasan in Madhya Pradesh, but the company is already scouting for foreign funds to replace at least 50 per cent of the debt at the earliest.

Sandeep Joshi
Too many applications, too few repayments in hope of another bonanza
Farmers happy with the UPA government

Although the Union Finance Minister in his 1999 budget speech declared the 1999-2000 as the year of the Gram Sabha, adequate efforts were not made to enforce the declaration excepting in a few states like West Bengal and Kerala. The culture of not holding GS meetings got wide currency because the elected bodies and officials wanted to implement various developmental programmes in secrecy.

There is new courtship ritual in Haryana. Villages in the state have recently been plastered with a slogan

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