Agartala, Dec 17 (ANI): Hundreds of environmentalists, social activists and other enthusiasts took to the streets of Agartala on Thursday to stage a rally to create awareness to protection the ecology.
The objective of the ‘Walk for Climate’ rally was to issue a [...]
Lucknow, Dec 16 (IANS) The Allahabad High Court Wednesday ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to take adequate measures to end the shortage of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in the state capital.
The Lucknow bench of the high court also instructed the government to submit report on the matter within three weeks.
The court’s directives came on a [...]
Kolkata, Nov 24 (IANS) Normal life remained virtually unaffected in West Bengal Tuesday despite a dawn-to-dusk shutdown called by the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), an ally of opposition Congress-Trinamool Congress combine in the state. It is protesting on various issues including rises in the prices of essential commodities.
Police said the 12-hour shutdown from [...]
New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy Monday said the country is not prepared for the urban explosion that many towns and cities are seeing at the moment.
Urban development, not just in terms of infrastructure but also capacity building of people is, therefore, what is urgently required to meet the challenges, [...]
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The Delhi cabinet Monday cleared the proposal for the start of corporatization of the city’s private bus service in order to phase out the bluelines.
‘At present in Delhi, the blueline buses are run by individual operators who have either a number of buses or a single bus. Under the new [...]
New Delhi, Nov 7 (IANS) The level of particulate matter in the atmosphere – in other words, the pollution level – has trebled in Delhi over the past few days. The immediate effect is on health, especially on those with respiratory problems, and probably even on the Commonwealth Games, said an expert at the Centre [...]
Pune, Oct 12 (ANI): As Maharashtra goes to poll on October 13, expectations of voters in Pune were high from who would represent them.
Residents say that the city, coping with the country’s first and highest number of swine flu cases, has a woefully inadequate public transport system. [...]
London, Oct.5 (ANI): Former MI5 chief Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller has said at the time of the 7/7 terror strike in London, the fear was that the service would not be able to cope with continuing terror attacks.
She said investigators did not immediately know the attack on the capital’s public transport system – which killed [...]
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Sunday flagged off 107 low-floor buses, including 30 air conditioned ones, in the capital. With these, the total number of low-floor buses plying on the roads of the capital has gone up to 763.
Garlanded and flashing words of welcome for the upcoming Commonwealth Games next [...]
