To ease the land acquisition process for infrastructure projects and curb disputes, the NITI Aayog, on October 31, 2020, released a draft model land titling act and rules for states, on conclusive land titling. … READ FULL STORY
The NGT directed the Environment Ministry on Wednesday to issue within two months a notification banning RO purifiers where total dissolved solids (TDS) in water are below 500 milligrams per litre. A bench, headed … READ FULL STORY
The World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas, has ranked India 13th among 17 countries, on the list of ‘extremely high’ water stressed countries. India has more than three times the population of the … READ FULL STORY
A private player has already won a bid to operate the Thiruvananthapuram international airport but the central government will take a view on the second bidder, the Kerala government, in the coming days, civil … READ FULL STORY
In a conference held in New Delhi, to address the issue of waste management, environmental experts said ‘a mass movement’ was required, to reduce the burden of waste in the country. Speaking at the … READ FULL STORY
Eminent scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), K Kasturirangan, has called for an agriculture regime, where water requirement comes down from (the current) 80-85 per cent to something like … READ FULL STORY
The NITI Aayog is proposing to set up a ‘Yamuna River Authority’, with a view to coordinating the work being done by various government departments for cleaning the river, its vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said, … READ FULL STORY
India has sought China’s assistance, to speed up the Bengaluru-Chennai railway corridor to 150 kms per hour, at the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) held between the two countries, in Beijing, NITI Aayog’s vice-chairman Rajiv … READ FULL STORY
The centre will invite companies from across the world, to showcase their construction techniques and adopt the selected ones, to build affordable houses for poor families in the country, a top official said, on … READ FULL STORY
The NITI Aayog has chosen four infrastructure projects of the Delhi government and will help in their execution, under its development support policy. Two of these projects are related to transit-oriented development – smart … READ FULL STORY
