Haryana is all set to award its largest highway project (156km) connecting its southern region to the northern parts.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday called for complete transparency in awarding highway projects to eliminate the possibility of favouritism or crony capitalism.

A government panel has suggested pathbreaking reforms to revamp the country’s crippling healthcare system, including regulatory mechanism for the health sector— both public and private — to ensure

The ministry of rural development is mulling over changes in the implementation guidelines of the country’s largest rural employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employmen

The National Water Policy 2002 is up for a revision and the Planning Commission is drafting India’s Twelfth Five Year Plan. A country which is fast turning into a “water stressed” nation, one can no more be complacent on water planning. India cannot afford a short-term vision of water resources management anymore.

A high-level government committee, headed by Planning Commission member, Saumitra Chaudhari, on Monday ruled out pooling of natural gas prices, stating that domestic natural gas users could not be asked to subsidise costlier imported liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Slap moratorium, revamp environmental clearance procedure
A Pune-based think tank has called for an immediate moratorium on any further grant of environmental clearance for thermal power plants (TPPs). These include a 5,00,000-MW capacity awaiting environmental clearance, apart from plants which have reached the terms of reference (TOR) stage or are awaiting the TOR.

New Delhi: Faced with a growing gap between demand and supply, Delhi government is now working on an ambitious proposal of placing parallel pipelines for providing potable and treated waste water f

New Delhi: Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said states should invoke the penalty clause against government officials for not doing their work under the job scheme.

New Delhi: The differences of opinion in the higher echelons of the government about India’s international climate change stance has now come out in the open with a Wiki-Leaks cable showing senior