NEW DELHI: Parched for water for long years, several areas of West Delhi including the mega township of Dwarka and the sprawling Najafgarh can now look forward to a better and more regular water supply.

The Supreme Court has done well to impose a blanket ban on all mining activities in the ecologically fragile Aravali hills, spanning the Faridabad, Gurgaon and Mewat districts of Haryana.

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

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