Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Tuesday said the decision to close existing airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore, after the opening of the new airports, would be reviewed.

The Rajya Sabha witnessed noisy scenes today over the government's reported proposal to give pre-cooked food to children at anganwadi centres under the Integrated Child Development Scheme.

THE Right to Education bill seems to have run into rough weather yet again.

civil society groups have asked the union government to table the long pending hiv-aids bill at the next session of parliament. The ngo, Indian Network of People Living with hiv - aids says

IN the empty courtyard of Sajabhai Bodat's hut, there is nothing but a white, plastic chair propped against a mud wall in faded green.

Underestimates can result in the problem being ignored, says PAC report Inflated figures may take resources away from other health programmes

Issues relating to protection of the planet continue to capture media headlines and provoke public and political debate. The United Nationsʼ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has referred to global warming as a ʻweapon of mass destructionʼ (IPCC, 2007). However, global warming is not the only earth-threatening issue – there is also an increasing amount of environmental crime. The term ʻenvironmental crimeʼ is relatively new to the UK government lexicon but does not capture or harness the actions of the powerful towards acts of global environmental harm.

The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed noisy scenes with MPs, cutting across party lines, targeting the Government on the issue of Special Economic Zones (SEZs).

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 is a law whereby: any adult who is willing to do unskilled manual work at the minimum wage is entitled to being employed on local public

Germany continues to invest in brown coal mining, despite ambitious climate targets. Requirements for carbon capture and storage could eventually make the fuel unprofitable. March 2008

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