Don't know how relationship with AAP govt will improve: Baijal after swearing-in

IMAGE: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal greets Anil Baijal after he was sworn in as the New Lieutenant Governor at Raj Niwas in New Delhi on Saturday. Photographs: Atul Yadav/PTI Photo Amid......

Former home secretary Baijal to be new Delhi LG

Career bureaucrat Anil Baijal was on Wednesday appointed as the new Lt Governor of Delhi, a post which has fallen vacant after sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung. Seventy-year-old Baijal, a 1969......

Crores spent yet Yamuna remains dirty

A parliamentary panel has noted that Yamuna river seems "dirtier" than before despite Rs 6,500 crore having been spent on its clean-up even as a project to lay interceptor sewers along the three......

Govt unveils campaign to showcase UPA's 'achievements'

With an eye on the general election, the government on Monday unveiled a series of audio-visual clips, as a part of its multi media campaign to highlight its achievements and showcase the impact of......

Little has changed in urban India

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, or JNNURM, is unique in some ways. It was the first large development initiative to specifically focus on urban India. Till then the......

Is India moving toward urban disaster?

With 130-140 million Indians likely to move to cities in the next decade and an equal number in the one after that, the development of urban India represents the biggest challenge you can think of......

What ails India's billion dollar construction business

Acute shortage of labour and migration towards social schemes like Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), a......

8.8 million families live in 33,510 urban slums

About 8.8 million households are located in 33,510 urban slums across the country of which nearly 44 per cent of the habitats are on private land, a government study conducted in 2012 showed.......