Social Justice Ministry moots a Commission for denotified tribes
They can finally look forward to education, health care and economic empowerment Left untouched by the Centre’s welfare juggernaut, the denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes (DNTs) that comprise...
View ArticleDeclare water bodies in urban areas as assets, says Ministry
The Union Urban Development Ministry has advised States to identify lakes and ponds in urban areas and notify them in municipal land records as “assets”. The suggestion comes in the wake of the alarming
View ArticleMonorail to arrive in Delhi by 2017
Government has identified the 11-km Shastri Park-Trilokpuri sector for the first line Delhi is likely to get it first monorail by 2017, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Tuesday. She said the city...
View ArticleWho should draft Delhi Master Plan – DDA or municipalities?
Is the Delhi Development Authority the appropriate agency for drafting a Master Plan for the city or has it taken over the mandate of the municipal corporations? Even as the DDA is readying the Delhi...
View ArticleDon’t ban the wheel of life, Centre tells Mamata
The Union Urban Development Ministry has finally recognised the ban on cycles imposed in Kolkata as a contravention of the National Urban Transport Policy, 2006, and decided to take up the issue with the
View ArticleCabinet to take decision on FDI in farm land
The UPA government has formed a three-member Cabinet committee to examine the possibility of opening up agricultural land to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), following a proposal by the Urban Development
View ArticleExpedite Jamrani dam project, Koshiyari urges Centre
It is not right to put it on hold because drinking water needs can't be ignored’ Lok Sabha MP from Nainital, Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, wants the Centre to expedite the Jamrani Dam project on the Gola
View ArticleConditional nod from WHO for new drug to treat MDR TB
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed a new drug to stem the global spread of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis, but has cautioned that its use must follow a set of guidelines issued by
View ArticleHuge population at fluorosis risk
High fluoride levels in water in 14,132 habitations in 19 States With drinking water in 14,132 habitations in 19 States still containing fluoride above the permissible levels, the Union Health and Family
View ArticleModi wants norms for Smart Cities
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the Urban Development Ministry to identify parameters like basic infrastructure, quality of life, and citizen-centric services that would be essential to developing
View ArticleGlobal response to Ebola inadequate, says WHO
Despite severity of problem, essential surveillance, laboratory, data management, and other capacities were not in place The World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned that no single control...
View ArticleCancer cases may rise sharply: WHO
Over eight million people died of the disease in 2012 The number of new cancer cases is expected to rise by about 70 per cent globally over the next two decades, the World Health Organisation has...
View ArticlePrabhu for boosting ties with Dhaka
A partnership between New Delhi and Dhaka to save the rare ecosystem of the Sundarbans and that agreement should be signed in a boat — that was Union Minister Suresh Prabhu’s suggestion as Environment
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