Day after Diwali, Delhi's air quality in 'severe' zone

Delhi's air quality took a sharp plunge and entered the 'severe' zone on Friday, following night-long Diwali revelry when people set off millions of firecrackers and reduced a Supreme Court ban on......

TEXT: President Patil's last address to Parliament

President Pratibha Patil on Monday addressed Parliament for the last time as President when she flagged off the Budget session. Here's the text of her speechHonourable Members I welcome you to this......

President's address to the Parliament

Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......

The complete text of the PIL

In the high court of Delhi at New Delhi (extraordinary original writ jurisdiction) Civil writ petition no. ______ of 2007 In the matter of: - Shantanu Sharma, Son of Shri Suresh Sharma, Resident of......

The irony of green levies by courts

The National Democratic Alliance government has tabled a bill in Parliament to send back most of the green tax to the states these have been collected from. On October 9, the Supreme Court imposed......

Govt rushes to ease green norms for industry

Amendments to six environmental laws likely in Budget session The National Democratic Alliance government is in a rush to relax green norms for industries to avoid frequent legislative......

Cabinet okays Rs 7,000 cr to clean Ganga

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved a Rs. 7,000-crore (Rs. 70 billion) project for cleaning of River Ganga to be implemented by the National Ganga River Basin......

Entire text of finance minister's Budget Speech

Budget 2010-11 provided considerable relief to income tax payers by raising the slabs at two levels but hiked the central excise duty on non-petroleum products across the board from 8 to 10 per......