Butt out: warnings as smoking ban hits
A BUDGET hotel and a karaoke bar in downtown Xujiahui have been formally warned and are still being investigated as the city cracks down on public smoking. A ban on smoking indoors in public areas came
A BUDGET hotel and a karaoke bar in downtown Xujiahui have been formally warned and are still being investigated as the city cracks down on public smoking. A ban on smoking indoors in public areas came
The Federal Government will soon issue a $20bn bond to raise funds to tackle the negative effects of climate change, the permanent secretary in the ministry of environment, Bukar Hassan, said yesterday.
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary panel has expressed its unhappiness over "unsatisfactory" utilisation of funds for pollution abatement by the environment ministry and asked it to "introspect" its performance
Formally kicking off the annual Budget making exercise, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will hold pre-Budget discussions with agriculturists on Friday.
The Budget proposals for 2015-16 has no strategy in place to address green concerns, the Centre of Science and Environment (CSE) said, adding that the only “green initiative” of the Narendra Modi government
Priti Patel sets date for event that was planned before Trump administration reintroduced so-called ‘global gag rule’ Britain will lead efforts to secure extra funding for family planning at an international
The Treasury will allocate Rs. 150 billion for the health budget in 2014, a Health Ministry spokesman said. The spokesman said a special discussion was held between Finance Ministry Secretary Dr. P.B.Jayasundara
The ministry of environment, forests and climate change has put tax breaks and fiscal concessions for instruments that measure and help abate pollution at the top of its wish list for the upcoming Union
A watered-down UBI based upon a dismantling of the existing social welfare schemes would be disastrous. (Editorial)
Springs are the most important source of water for millions of people in the mid-hills of the Himalaya. Both rural and urban communities depend on springs for meeting their drinking, domestic, and agricultural
<p>On 08/04/2020, 143 confirmed cases were being treated, 39 of which were in health facilities and 104 at home. Of the 104 confirmed cases at home, 68 are being transferred to health facilities. 56 per
This document produced by Nepal's Ministry of Finance is centered on the key measures adopted by the Government of Nepal in integrating climate change and climate finance into national planning and budgeting
Dehradun: The Centre has sanctioned a budget of Rs 2.5 crore to Uttarakhand to aid the state in its State Action Plan of climate change (SAPCC). R N Jha, chief conservator of forests and nodal officer
देश की दो तिहाई से अधिक आबादी आज भी खेती की जर्जर प्रणाली पर निर्भर है। केंद्र की राजग सरकार ने इसे बखूबी समझ लिया है नई दिल्ली, [सुरेंद्र प्रसाद सिंह]। गांवों की गरीबी केवल खेती के रास्ते ही भाग सकती
The Environment Ministry is proposed to be allocated Rs 2,675.42 crore in the 2017-18 Union Budget, an increase of Rs 399.42 crore over the last fiscal. In 2016-17, the ministry had got a hike of over
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai has said that his government will double budget for agriculture in the fiscal policy. The government will double the budget to ensure food safety and promote
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba cracked opened a R6bn war chest to assist areas in the country hardest hit by drought, particularly the Western Cape and Cape Town. The R6bn is part of an augmentation
The Survey's GDP growth figure for the current fiscal is lower than 7.1 per cent the Central Statistics Office had forecast earlier this month. India’s economic growth has been pegged at 6.5 per cent
NEW DELHI: India should play a proactive role in promoting open global markets to fill vacuum in the international leadership, The Economic Survey today said. At a time of a possible resurgence of protectionist
The Government has allocated Rs. 125 billion for the health sector in 2013. Of this, Rs. 35 billion is to purchase drugs while another Rs. 36 billion is for health sector salaries, Health Minister Maithripala