As the prime minister asked the Group of Ministers on Bhopal tragedy to meet immediately, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is a member of the GoM, said on Monday that the panel can probe under......
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI) has been constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. The constitution of the high powered Committee comes in the wake......
India has got the highest recognition at the United Nations Habitat with Minister of State for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja having been unanimously elected as President of its......
Every time the prime minister goes abroad, it costs the exchequer Rs 40 lakh per day, on average. India paid Rs 10 lakh a day for the prime minister's Mauritius visit and over Rs 75 lakh a day when......
Twenty-two ministers were sworn-in by President Pranab Mukherjee, his first swearing-in since becoming President, on Sunday morning. Seven were sworn in as Cabinet ministers, two as ministers of......
Aiming at sensitising policy makers and planners towards the dynamics of poverty in cities, governmentreleased on Tuesday a reportoutlining the nature and extent of urban poverty in the country.......
There has been a growth of 17.8 million in urban slum population of India in the last decade, according to a government committee formed to create a 'reliable statistical model' of enumerating......
Tourism and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Minister Kumari Selja has welcomed the proposals made in the Union Budget 2010-2011 in tourism and housing & urban poverty alleviation sectors. She......
The government is finalising a policy for urban areas that will encourage the role of private players to make owning a house affordable in towns and cities. "Taking feedback from sectoral......
Urban development minister S Jaipal Reddy is afraid of going to Parliament as the newly-elected members of the Parliament besiege him and ask for development funds but the ministry hardly has any......