Meerut: A new high-speed train route between Anand Vihar in Ghaziabad and Meerut has been sanctioned, officials said here on Thursday.
The route, sanctioned at a meeting on Wednesday, has been surveyed by Delhi Integrated Multi Modal Transit System (DIMTS) and will have a total of 14 stations with seven of them located in Ghaziabad district, they said.
LUCKNOW: A day after Tuesday's violent protests by farmers in Agra, tension prevailed across trouble-hit areas in the western part of the state, which remained under heavy security deployment all through Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: In deference to the near unanimity among political parties against forcible land acquisition, the Centre on Tuesday assured the Lok Sabha that the interest of farmers would be protected and a comprehensive legislation formulated.
Responding to the 55-minute discussion on the issue of the farmers' agitation at Aligarh and Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, which was taken u
LUCKNOW: In a fresh impetus to bettering urban infrastructure in major cities of the state, the government of India has named Lucknow, Varanasi, Agra, Kanpur, Meerut, Allahabad and Mathura as mission cities under the urban infrastructure and governance (UIG) scheme of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
LUCKNOW: In a significant development, the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), on Monday, ordered 25 agro-waste based paper industries in the state to stop the process of chemical pulping, a move that could lead to closure of these units.
Union Minister of State, Rural Development, Pradeep Jain has written to his UP counterpart to highlight that not a single woman was issued a job card between January 2009 and December 2009 in six districts in the state namely Meerut, Agra, Aligarh, Rampur, Bijnore and Baghpat.
He said this had been discovered during a review of NREGS across the country on March 18.
