Maharashtra may ride on Special Purpose Vehicles
maharashtra is gearing up for a special purpose vehicle (spv)
maharashtra is gearing up for a special purpose vehicle (spv)
Maharashtra's draft state housing policy (dshp) is ready. Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh announced it on November 1, 2006. Prepared in a record three-month period by a taskforce headedby the state
India has toppled the us to become the second largest producer of cotton, after China, states the cotton fiscal of 2006-2007. Statistics also show that by October-end, the annual cotton farmers'
Special Economic Zones
the Gujarat government is planning to set up a water regulatory commission to monitor and regulate water supply and sewerage services, rationalise tariffs, curb subsidies and promote water
The skewed pattern of rainfall experienced across the country during this year's monsoon appears to be an anomaly.
After the liberalisation of the Indian economy, private health care units (hcus) have mushroomed across the country. Regulating them figures nowhere on the agenda of the Union government. The
Moneylenders are their bane
The trend of cotton farmers' suicides in Vidarbha keeps showing an upward spike since prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the area in early July and the announcement of a package for the
The Union ministry for non-conventional energy sources (MNES) has received investment proposals worth crores of rupees from private entrepreneurs, in India and abroad, to manufacture devices and systems for harnessing non-conventional energy resources under the proposed special economic zones (<font class="UCASE">sez</font>) policy. "The ministry will soon finalise the locations for setting up <font class="UCASE">sez</font> s.
This can happen only in India. Introspection is always with retrospective effect. On June 23, 2005, the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Bill was passed by Parliament into a law. Six months later, in February
it has been less than two months since prime minister Manmohan Singh visited Vidarbha, Maharashtra's cotton country, with a special package for the beleaguered farmers. Since then 200 more farmers
the Rs 5,745-crore Mumbai Urban Transport Project's second phase (mutp-ii) for a suburban railway is facing a roadblock because the Union ministry of railways and the Maharashtra government disagree
function table() { var popurl="image/20060930/43-table.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=575,height=500,scrollbars=yes") } It's been six months since the National Rural
<i>Chikungunya</i>, a viral disease borne by the <i>Aedes aegypti</i> mosquito, has assumed epidemic proportions in large swathes of the country, especially Karnataka. One problem with containing it is that the systems in place for monitoring the diseas
Controlling breeding is the way out
Floods in many parts of the country
Interstate Disputes over Krishna Waters
india is facing the worst kind of floods in some of its most dammed states. Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh top the list of states with the maximum number of dams.
"The Constitution guarantees the right to life and to personal liberty. The values which underlie Article 21 of the Constitution are seriously eroded by deaths on such a systemic scale, as the facts before the court in relation to the State of Maharashtra demonstrate... .