Press Trust of India (PTI), headquartered in New Delhi, is India’s largest news agency. It was registered in 1947 and started operations in 1949. PTI has more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers, who generate more than 2,000 stories and 200 photographs every day. Subscribers to PTI’s feed include the mainstream media, research groups, specialised presses, companies, government organisations and NGOs.
Over 89% of urban municipal wards in the country have achieved complete door-to-door collection of solid waste under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), the government said in an RTI reply. The union Housing and … READ FULL STORY
Thousands of local residents, members of various organisations and students of colleges and schools, formed a human chain at Futala Lake in Nagpur, on May 1, 2019, as a protest against the proposed felling … READ FULL STORY
During a meeting in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh’s principal secretary of the Transport Department, Aradhana Shukla and director general of police (DGP) OP Singh, directed officials of Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad, to strictly … READ FULL STORY
Residents of 17 colonies in the Trans Hindan area, protested against the Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (PVVNL) in Ghaziabad, on April 29, 2019, for a near 29-hour-long power outage in their neigbourhood. The … READ FULL STORY
The Bombay High Court has said that there was no provision for Mumbai’s civic chief, to frame rules for laying down guidelines for determining the capital value of a property, based on which tax … READ FULL STORY
The Central Works Public Department (CPWD) has set up a committee, under the chairmanship of its additional director general MK Sharma, to formulate a design policy for building construction and infrastructure development, a government … READ FULL STORY
Gautam Buddh Nagar district magistrate Brajesh Narain Singh, on April 24, 2019, ordered the formation of a four-member committee, to probe the death of two workers at a construction site in Greater Noida and … READ FULL STORY
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on April 24, 2019, said it has provisionally attached land and buildings in Madurai and Chennai and fixed deposits, totalling to Rs 40.34 crores of Olympus Granites Pvt Ltd, under … READ FULL STORY
A Supreme Court bench of chief justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna, on April 22, 2019, said that it is not inclined to interfere with the Madras High Court order … READ FULL STORY
The Environment Ministry, while noting that there were operational issues including the overloading of waste against its designed capacity, sought an explanation from Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company Pvt Ltd, which operates the Okhla … READ FULL STORY
After the Congress accused the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance of misleading Mumbaikars on the property tax waiver, the BJP has clarified that all components of the levy would be waived in future bills. The process … READ FULL STORY
India could make a major dent in air pollution and save about 2,70,000 lives a year by curbing emissions from dirty household fuels such as wood, dung, coal and kerosene, according to a study … READ FULL STORY
The Maharashtra government, through its Cooperatives Department and collectorates, has reminded housing societies about its seven-year-old directive, to make their presidents and secretaries ‘booth-level volunteers’, to ensure 100% voting on their premises. The department … READ FULL STORY
