Some of the Capital's best minds stressed that the citizens of Delhi should utilise the up coming elections by improving the city

The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on the ongoing construction of the Commonwealth Games Village that has been challenged on the grounds that it could harm the ecological system of the Yamuna riverbed. A division bench headed by Justices A.K. Sikri and Rekha Sharma reserved the order after hearing the arguments from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and environmentalists. "We are giving one week's time to all parties in the case to file their affidavits if they want to say anything else in the case,' said the bench.

the High Court of Bombay at Goa recently asked two industries in Goa to close down their operations. The plants

scientists from Nagpur-based National Environment Engineering Research Institute have discovered hundreds of hitherto untapped friendly bacteria from Common Effluent Treatment Plants (cetps). This,

despite petrol's benzene content being lowered from 3 per cent to 1 per cent in 2000-2001, there has been no significant effect on the current ambient levels of this carcinogenic chemical.