India’s Right to Information (RTI) Act is rated as the third best in the world as far as its provisions go but its rating for implementation and actual transparency ranks India at number 66. “There is a growing tendency
As the Delhi government announced emergency measures to help citizens cope with the public health crisis of hazardous air pollution levels, Greenpeace India has reiterated the central demands of its ‘Clean Air Nation’ campaign:
As the residents of Delhi and its adjoining satellite towns gasp for breath due to exceedingly high pollution levels, an IIT study that was submitted to the Delhi government in the beginning of this year had identified the factors that caused poll
The seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) began near Delhi on Monday. It is the first occasion that a COP meeting is being held in India. COP7, being held from November 7-12, 2016, brings together the WHO Framework
Delhi has approximately 70,000 homeless children, more than any other Indian city. These children, on an average, are slightly over 12 years old. The lowest estimate of drug addiction among them is 36 percent and the highest is 80 percent. A large
India currently has the highest number of tuberculosis (TB) patients in the world. But hold your breath! A new study has suggested that the number of TB cases in India is a gross underestimate. In fact, it may be up to two to three times higher th
Seema Devi, a 34-year-old woman, is not much different from other homemakers of her village – Takerson in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh. But ask her about her latest acquisition, and she turns into an ideal candidate for promotional ad on
Accommodating juveniles in conflict with law (JCLs) with multiple crimes along with other inmates in combined observation homes (OHs)/special homes (SHs) was in violation of law, noted a report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Od
Jharkhand is on the boil over acquisition of tribal land. On October 5, four people were killed and more than a dozen injured while protesting against a coal mining project of NTPC, a Maharatna PSU. In September, more than 40,000 people fr
Feeling breathless in the national capital. Well, the enthusiastic bursting of firecrackers in Delhi and its surrounding satellite towns are to blame. Air quality at all 10 System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting
Standard and Poor’s global ratings affirmed its `BBB-` long-term and `A-3` short-term sovereign credit ratings on India. It said that the outlook is stable. The ratings on India reflect the country`s sound external profile and
To ensure timely implementation of real estate projects, the Real Estate (Regulation & Development) Agreement for Sale Rules, 2016 specify the rights and obligations of both the promoters and buyers, including the right to terminate the agreem
The Delhi government, Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and municipal corporations of Delhi have been told by the urban development ministry to sort out various issues to enable notification of regulations for the land pooling policy.
Should the Indians be worried about Afghanistan’s future? National security advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval offers a perspective on this. In 2001 then US president George W Bush had launched an all-out ‘Operation Enduring Freed
The time has come for India to announce to the world that India can no longer be transgressed or trespassed with impunity. And there couldn’t have been a more telling way of doing so than by unleashing the special mission operations, with th
The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has collaborated with Common Services Centers (CSCs) to expand the reach of its services to the employees’ provident fund (EPF) members. The CSC network is an internet-enabled
The Goods and Services Network(GSTN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) for sharing of foreign exchange realisation and Import Export code data, a move that is expected to strengthen processing o
Ketan Desai, a famous name in the medical world, is a man with unimaginable access and influence in the power galleries, be it in Gujarat or Delhi, with Congress or BJP. And his election as the chairman of the World Medical Association (WMA), desp
With the fighting intensifying in Syria’s Aleppo, parties to the conflict are aggressively pushing their agendas beyond the battlegrounds. The battle over the war-struck city has great symbolic significance for the big powers, particularly t
