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......
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......
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......
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......
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Saturday said that India needed to fight communal forces effectively for its economic and social development. "Economic and social development of the nation......
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......
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......
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......
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.......
As India witnesses a boom in its urban population, New Delhi and Washington have agreed to deepen their ties in the urban development sector. The decision in this regard was taken when urban......