Hyderabad: The planning commission has cautioned the state government over the high maternal and infant mortality in one fifth of the state and asked it to take effective remedial measures.

The environment ministry's 2012 guidelines for high-rise buildings that link a building's height with the width of the road on which it is located — and had been strongly opposed by state governmen

Hyderabad: The planning commission appreciated Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy’s welfare initiatives including the ‘Bangaru Talli’ (monetary assistance to girl child) and approved the annual plan

Kohima: Nagaland's annual plan for 2013-14 has been fixed at Rs 2000 crore.

Meghalaya for 2013-14 was on Tuesday finalized at Rs 4151 crore following a meeting between Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr.

The Annual Plan for Madhya Pradesh for the current fiscal was finalised at Rs.35,500 crore at a meeting here on Wednesday between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chie

Planning to corner the Opposition BJP on the issue of food insecurity in the country, the Congress Core Group met today to discuss ways of enacting the pending food security Bill ahead of the cruci

Along with the Eastern Himalayas, the Western Ghats host India’s richest wilderness in 13 national parks and several sanctuaries.

India needs to spend at least Rs 1,000 crore a year to tackle nutrition-related problems among children and women in 200 high-burden districts, the Working Group on Nutrition has said, proposing an

The Annual Plan for Assam for 2013-14 was on Tuesday finalised at Rs. 12,500 crore at a meeting here between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

Initiating the discussions, Mr. Ahluwalia lauded the State’s economic performance in the last four to five years with both expenditure realisation and growth showing positive trends and satisfactory progress in human development. Performance in the social sectors, including health and education, was also appreciable.