France has proposed to give India a 1 billion euro ($1.4 billion) credit line to fund sustainable infrastructure and urban development projects, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday.

The Alakolaveva-Padiyapelalla road development project was launched by Private Transport Minister C. B. Ratnayaka recently. A fund of Rs.

New Delhi : In the decade spanning 2001-2011, the urban population of India grew annually by 2.8% adding 9.1 crore people to India’s population residing in cities.

KOLHAPUR: Environmentalists from the southern Maharashtra have demanded that the existing laws should be effectively used to protect the ecologically-sensitive Western Ghats.

Despite a stay order by the Lahore High Court (LHC), the Punjab government could not get the work on a road in the Salt Range stopped, Dawn has learnt.

The High Court order that earlier declared illegal the Ashiyan City Housing Project in Uttara here and asked its authorities to stop selling plots, filling land and doing other business activities