Despite EC nod, BEST yet to take a decision on new buses
Mumbai Even as the municipal transport units in Thane, Navi Mumbai gear up for the buying new buses after having secured the Election Commission
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Paswan writes to PM on Ramandurg issue, says NMDC rightful claimant
New Delhi: With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, the issue of the Mines Ministry
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Parties silent on eco-related issues
Jalandhar: Silence of the political parties contesting Lok Sabha elections over degradation of environment in Punjab has disappointed environmentalists in the state. No political party has made an issue of threat to ecology.
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Govt set to make diesel and LPG more expensive
Group of ministers to meet on June 9, quantum of increase the only issue, says senior official With Assembly elections over and the latest increase in petrol prices almost two weeks old, the government is set to make diesel, kerosene and domestic LPG more expensive. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has made a case for increasing the prices of these three fuels.
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Voters and the environment
Michael Leavitt, who runs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, declared recently that American voters on election Day has delivered a clear mandate for Presidential policies, a
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Campbell urges action on water
Australian environment Minister Ian Campbell said the time for politicking ended on election day and the states should recommit to the national water plan.Senator Campbell said the national water
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New world conservation boss eyes climate, oceans
The newly elected president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) said on Wednesday that global warming and the lack of protected marine zones were key challenges that needed to be hoisted high on
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Another free-trade battle
Dogfights in the U.S. Congress over free-trade pacts usually pop up not long after presidential elections. Back in 1993, President Bill Clinton doled out promises to everybody and his mother to get
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Two-child norm cannot be imposed on anyone
At long last, belated realisation has dawned on the government that imposing the two-child norm on elected representatives amounts to coercion. The health minister has sensibly withdrawn the Bill on
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Flood control measures yet to take off in Cuddalore district
CUDDALORE: Flood control measures at a total outlay of Rs. 600 crore are yet to take off in Cuddalore district. The Assembly elections have stalled the tender procedures for assigning as many as 54 works in this regard, according to K.V. Elangeeran, president of the Vettuvaikkal and Naraikkal Eri Paasana Vivasayigal Sangam. In a statement released here, Mr.
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No auctioning of sand mines: State
March 20: The state government has decided to cancel the auctioning of sand reaches in the state till the completion of elections keeping in view the model code of conduct. But it decided to review its decision on Saturday. A senior official of the mines and geology department said the CEO would be consulted in this regard on Saturday in this regard.
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Free rice for 4.24 lakh families
<p> Collector C.Munianathan chairs coordination committee meeting NAGAPATTINAM: Over 4.24 lakh family card holders would be entitled to the free rice proposed for distribution through the public distribution system, as promised by the Chief Minister in her election manifesto. A coordination meeting in this regard was conducted here under Collector C.Munianathan at the Collectorate on Thursday.</p>
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See no evil, smell no stink: Let the kids breathe poison, its poll time
Calcutta, March 17: Elections, the pride of India, have offered a fig leaf to cover Calcutta
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The Power Factor
A strong wind blowing through Umaidpur, West Bengal, shakes the kerosene lamp, disturbing Abhijit Das, 8, at his homework. When it eventually puts out the flame, the Class I pupil of Golbari Primary School waits for his mother to light it once again. Umaidpur is a village without electricity in Satgachia, the constituency that used to elect former chief minister Jyoti Basu.
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Killer needles
Going into the general elections, Narendra Modi will fight not his rivals, but a virus. A Hepatitis B outbreak in the northern district of Modasa and nearby villages has claimed 61 lives since February and infected more than 185 people. The virus attacks the liver and can cause death from cirrhosis or cancer.
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Environmental leaders predict states, business will force global warming curbs
With the re-election of President Bush, state governments and big business will likely be the biggest forces over the next four years to craft new policies and develop innovative technologies aimed
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Every solution under the sun is needed
Even as the government was mulling another round of reduction in fuel prices before the elections as international crude oil prices slip to their lowest, it is important that the Integrated Energy Policy (IEP) -which was recently ratified by the Union cabinet be implemented instead.
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Garbage segregation drive to be stepped up
The Chennai Corporation has decided to intensify the campaign for source segregation of garbage in north Chennai over the next two weeks. Senior officials, elected representatives from Tondiarpet
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Get Land Acquisition Bill ready, Manmohan tells Deshmukh
Directive comes in the wake of turmoil in Greater Noida Supplementing political offensive with a dose of administrative endeavour, in the build-up to the next round of Assembly elections, focussed on Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minster Manmohan Singh has asked Union Minister for Rural Development Vilasrao Deshmukh to finalise at the earliest the two amended Bills on land acquisition and rehabilitation a
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CMP falls short on ground reality
When the UPA government took charge in May, agriculture was touted as their priority area. Elevating the promise from election rhetoric, it was incorporated in black-and-white in the National Common