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New Delhi: As per a study got conducted by the Ministry of Urban Development through M/s Wilbur Smith Associates Pvt. Ltd. in selected cities, daily trips are anticipated to double from 2286 lakh to 4819 lakh during the next 24 years.

New Delhi: The Centre has approved a grant of Rupees five crore to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to make five of its World Heritage Sites and 25 other ticketed monuments accessible to persons with disabilities.

New Delhi: Bilateral Air Services Agreement(ASA) between India and Brazil was signed by the Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Civil Aviation Shri Vayalar Ravi and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil Shri Antonio de Aguiar Patriota here today.

New Delhi: The Government has adopted Vision 2015 which has suggested strategy to ensure faster growth of the food processing sector. The Vision 2015 provideS for enhancing the level of processing of perishable to 20%, enhancing value addition to 35%.

The whirlwind of popular protests that overthrew Tunisian president Zine el-Abedin Ben Ali and Egypt’s long-standing ruler Hosni Mubarak shows no sign of abating. The entire Arab world is in revolt, from Yemen and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf to Morocco and Algeria in the Maghreb, and to Sudan and Djibouti in the South. Even the Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti regimes are beginning to look vulnerable. Protests in one country are inspiring revolts in other countries as people go through a process of creative learning-by-doing.

If the Congress’s earlier coalitional troubles were due to the Left’s ideological predilections, its present difficulties are the result of the propensity of the allies to use ministerial positions for financial adventures. Since the Congress itself harbours similar tendencies, as the Bofors episode showed, it is not always in a position to act as a moral guardian. The result has been that the allegations of sleaze have dragged both the Congress and its partners into a political quagmire.

New York: Colombia, Denmark, Netherlands and Sweden became the first countries to sign a new treaty that opened for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York today that provides international rules and procedures for liability and redress in the event of damage to biodiversity caused by living modified organisms.

Washington – Pointing to the “inherently unsustainable development path we are on,” World Bank Vice President Inger Andersen today called on governments, international aid agencies, and other development partners to join a new global knowledge platform aimed at fostering green growth. The platform, being developed jointly by the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the OECD, aims to bring together proponents of sustainable development to promote and implement green growth policies by exchanging knowledge, information, and experience.

Mexicans and Koreans worry more about their environment than people in the Netherlands. And many Australians and Norwegians say their own actions can make a difference.

New York: Iran is still not providing the cooperation needed to conclude that its nuclear programme is purely for peaceful activities, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency warned today.