Puts Congress-NCP alliance under embarassing situation ahead of Lok Sabha polls

About 23 farmers from the hailstorm and untimely rainfall hit villages in Maharashtra have so far committed suicides. Six each are from the underdeveloped Vidarbha region and Nashik in north Maharashtra, 10 from Aurangabad and one from Sangli.

Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) is yet to get on with survey of encroachments around Siddique Hassan Khan Talab. Also, the state government hasn't yet drafted a rehabilitation policy for encroachers around the water body.

Taking a serious view, National Green Tribunal (NGT) central zone bench ordered the BMC and the state government to expedite work around the talab.

After extending legal cover to all slums that came up prior to January 1, 2000, the Congress-led Democratic Front government has now legitimised occupants of protected slum homes till 2013.

In a notification issued by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan-led Urban Development (UD) department on March 3, the government has said “it intends to rehabilitate slum-dwellers who have been residing continuously for at least one year in protected slum structures.”

The members of four different organizations named Youth Against Social Evils, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), Sara Bharat Krishak Sabha and Sara Assam Nirman Shramik Union along with t

The 400-km-long Vadodara-Mumbai Expressway, expected to cost Rs 27,000 crore, is among the four expressways that may be scrapped unless the state governments concerned are prepared to take care of

In a setback to Coca-Cola and UltraTech Cement, which are setting up plants in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Harish Rawat has declared that he is not focusing on industrialisation.

Activists Say Hutments Should Be Removed From Wetlands

Dahisar, the last suburb within Mumbai limits on the western track, primarily needs a comprehensive slum rehabilitation plan to protect its mangroves, free public space and allow affordable housing.

After some dilly-dallying on the matter, the Gujarat government finally filed a curative petition in the Supreme Court against the planned translocation of some lions from Gir to Kuno Palpur wildli

The ongoing slum rehabilitation project in Yerawada for the urban poor has been awarded the first prize in the HUDCO Design Awards 2013 in the ‘cost-effective rural/urban housing including disaster