Hotter summer likely in 2023, parts of India to see above normal temperature

A hotter than normal summer is expected in 2023 with temperatures likely to reach 2-3 degree Celsius above normal in some parts of Indo-Gangetic plains and eastern India during the last week of......

Swachh Bharat man, Param Iyer calls it a day as sanitation secy

Iyer, popularly called Param, is keen to return to the US where he had spent several years working with the World Bank at its Washington office -- a job he later quit to become road manager for his......

Odisha, Bengal evacuate people as Cyclone Dana approaches

As Odisha and West Bengal are bracing for a severe cyclonic storm, governments of both states started evacuating people and while deciding to close educational institutions in vulnerable areas.......

Pradip Tripathi moves to Cabinet Secretariat as govt effects major bureaucratic rejig

Senior bureaucrat Pradip Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as secretary (coordination) in the Cabinet Secretariat as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Monday. A......

Price of piped water to all households = Rs 5 trillion

The current estimate, however, largely covers only the cost of infrastructure such as pipes, construction of borewells, overhead costs among others and not the expenditure to be incurred on......

Scanty rains: States told to gear up to meet water demand

With the MeT office predicting a ‘deficient’ rainfall across the country in the coming monsoon season, the Centre on Tuesday asked the states to make preparations to tackle drinking......

Prolonged lockdown to make India's water crisis worse

Making water available is always a serious challenge in the summer for all public authorities.This year, the challenge is higher when hand-washing at every opportunity has become a necessity.So......

'CSR spending should be made mandatory'

The Centre's proposal to downgrade 'ratna' status of Public Sector Enterprises if they fail to spend two per cent of their net profit on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities has......