More than two years after these were purchased by the Municipal Corporation (MC), the mechanised road sweeping machines continue to be money guzzlers.

While the utility of these machines purchased from Italy had been under scanner, it has come to light that Rs. 32.63 lakh has been paid in excess to the amount approved by the General House for the project. Besides, around Rs.

New Delhi: The caf

The Municipal Corporation has decided to buy out eight prototype high-end toilet complexes built on its land from private developers following the Lieutenant-Governor's direction to scrap the project's further extension owing to heavy public criticism.

The decision was announced after a meeting of the MCD on Monday attended by Delhi Mayor P. R.

Mumbai: Without stronger basic infrastructure, particularly better roads, water supplies, sanitation, electricity, information and communications technology and other essential services, developing countries will be hard-pressed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets, said Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Haruhiko Kuroda.

The MDGs are eight internationally-agreed targets,

The World Bank today approved four loans worth $4.3 billion (about Rs 20,631 crore) to help India finance its infrastructure programmes and further strengthen the capital base of state-run banks. The approved loan includes a a budgetary support of $2 billion for capital infusion in select public sector banks to help them maintain credit growth.