The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
KOCHI: The main highlight of the state budget for the year 2010-11 is that there was no hike in taxes, said Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac. At the post-budget discussion organised by the Kerala Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Sunday, the Minister said that special focus had …
Rajesh Ahuja CHANDIGARH: The Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (HSIIDC) has successfully completed the acquisition of about 3,000 acres of land and another 3,000 acres is likely to be acquired by the end of the current fiscal year, Managing Director Rajeev Arora said on Wednesday. Talking to …
Gangtok, March 2: The 13th Finance Commission has recommended a package of Rs 400 crore during the next five years as grants-in-aid for meeting specific needs, including Rs 200-crore Bhaley Dhunga sky walk project, in Sikkim. The commission, in its report tabled by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament …
This EIA guidance manual addresses the related environmental concerns for the Airports. This manual consists of terms of reference (TOR), manual and questionnaire. It helps the regulatory authority to review the report as well as the public to become aware of the related environmental issues.
About 120 km southeast of Imphal, on the India-Myanmar border, the first steps are being taken towards giving shape to the Indian part of a grand Asian dream
Mineral ore exporters ready to create infrastructural facilities PANJIM, FEB 23 Goa Mineral Ore Exporters Association (GMOEA) today told the government that they are willing to put in funds to build infrastructural facilities like roads in the mining belt provided land is given to them free of all encumbrances. This …
The Minister DoNER is contemplating a study on roadmap for air connectivity in the Northeastern region in consultation with the Ministry of Civil Aviation. The study would include viability of air connectivity within the Northeastern region (NER) and linking airports within the region to other metros, said Civil Aviation Minister, …
The B K Chaturvedi Committee, set up to recommend ways to expedite the National Highways Development Project, seems to have been guided by the misconception that infrastructure can be built by simply doling out additional concessions to the investors. The new rules make inadequate capacity highly rewarding for investors, and …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: With the economy poised to register a 7.2 per cent economic growth in 2009-10 fiscal and the government pegging the GDP growth at around 8 to 8.5 per cent in 2010-11, the target can be achieved only by removing various policy bottlenecks and accelerating spending in …
Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling laid the foundation stone of a new 575-bedded multi specialty STNM Hospital at Suchakgang (Sichey) in the city outskirts here recently. The Hospital will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 400 crores with a plinth area of 6 lakh square feet, housing 18 …
India will become the world's second largest steel producer by 2012, more than doubling its capacity of 57 million tonnes as part of push being given to assist overall infrastructure development, Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh has said. "I have set a target of 124 million tonnes by 2012. Yes, we …
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said that India may clock a growth in the upper range of most projections including the 7.75 per cent growth projection given by the Economic Survey last year. Mukherjee sounded optimistic that India would cross the 7.2 per cent growth rate predicted by the Central …
In a move that also rehabilitates former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor and infrastructure expert Rakesh Mohan, the government today set up a National Transport Development Policy Committee to chalk out a multi-modal strategy to meet the country
BHAWANIPATNA: Kalahandi continues to be backward and underdeveloped with human development index touching nadir. To pave the way for speedy development and free Kalahandi from the vicious cycle of regional imbalance, there is a need to go for macro and micro-level planning. This was the consensus at the day-long brain-storming …
After the Educational Development Index (EDI) showed Delhi had slipped from its fourth rank to the eighth place in elementary education, the state is considering taking up the matter with the Ministry of Human Resource Development and National University of Educational Planning and Administration, officials said. According to the report …
Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: Aslali gram panchayat has set an example for other panchayats to follow. This panchayat, situated on the city outskirts, has gone in for infrastructure development without getting any grant from the government. It spent Rs 5.49 lakh on plantation and managed to raise around Rs …
THE Maharashtra government has gone back on its promise to give developed land to farmers who cede land for infrastructure and industrial projects. In December¤ the state amended the law that provided farmers developed land in lieu of land acquired from them. The Maharashtra Project Affected Persons’ Rehabilitation Act¤ 2009 …
