Some projects under the Smart Cities Mission would not be able to meet the June 30 deadline and the respective state governments would be responsible for completing them thereafter, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary told the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs. In its report on the …
Oil Minister Has Urged PM To Set Up A Ministerial Panel To Decide Issue Sanjay Dutta | TNN New Delhi: An increase in petrol and diesel prices is almost a certainty once dust settles on the Budget session of Parliament. The quantum of increase will depend on whether the government …
NEW DELHI: A full-fledged probe into the incident of radioactive material being found in the scrap at Mayapuri in west Delhi earlier this month is under way. The scrap apparently came from abroad, Minister of State for Atomic Energy Prithiviraj Chavan told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
An interim report by a committee set up to determine the reasons for suspension of licences of three public sector vaccine manufacturing units is said to have concluded that then Union health minister Anbumani Ramadoss gave the order without a clear analysis of the matter. According to sources, the report …
The government on Tuesday admitted its helplessness in providing adequate compensation to victims of radiation exposure in Mayapuri market in the absence of a specific law backing compensation to victims of radioactive accidents. Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan told the Rajya Sabha that such a law …
Minister of state for science & technology Prithviraj Chavan was clearly on the backfoot when he admitted in the Rajya Sabha that the Cobalt 60 detected in a west Delhi scrap market had been brought in undetected from abroad. This deadly consignment was found in Delhi
The Government will come out with a set of rules on May 15 to manage electronic waste (e-waste), Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday. He said the new rules will have public-private partnership (PPP) and focus on recycling of useful material and destroying toxic waste. …
With illegal recycling of used electronic goods like mobile phone and computer posing environmental and health hazard, the Government will in less than a month come out with e-waste management and disposal rules. Replying to supplementaries during Question Hour, Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh told the Rajya Sabha that …
Noting that the Department of Land Resources under the Union Rural Development Ministry has not been getting required funds during the 11th Plan period (2007-2012), a Parliamentary Standing Committee has urged the Planning Commission to allocate the requisite funds for better execution of the Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) and …
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel on Thursday criticized railways for tardy implementation of rail projects during the 11th Plan period, highlighting that the department could lay only 513km of new tracks in the first two years of the period against the target of 2,000km. Parliamentary standing committee on railways has …
BHUBANESWAR: Fearing that the proposed Seeds Bill, 2004, if enacted, would harm millions of small and medium farmers across the country and only benefit the multi-national companies, city-based United Coalition Against Genetic Engineering (Uncage) today said that all stakeholders in agriculture and environment sectors must come forward to oppose the …
Renewable Energy Ministry Working On Rs 2.53-Crore Project Likely To Become Operational By February Next THE Parliament House complex is going green. With the emphasis on energy conservation and pollution free environment gaining momentum, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has greenlighted the project to reduce the dependence on conventional sources …
States blame the Centre for their fiscal problems, particularly when the political parties in power at the two levels are different. This is what the Punjab Finance Minister did while presenting the State Budget for 2010-2011. True, almost all the elastic sources of revenue
Battery-operated vehicles and solar lighting are being considered by a joint panel of MPs for Parliament House to protect the grand symbol of India's democracy from pollution. At a recent meeting of Parliamentary forum on Global Warming and Climate Change under the chairmanship of Speaker Meira Kumar, the idea of …
Misleading the public on safety of genetically modified crops or organisms without scientific evidence would not be made a punishable offence, the government has decided following concerns raised by some scientists and civil society groups. A relevant clause to this effect in the proposed Bill to set up the National …
New Delhi: Parliament security has said it is ready to let in members on bicycles, in what can add a novel feature to the transport system among politicians. Security authorities have veered round to the view that not much needs to be done to make the system, geared for fourwheelers, …
