Prakash Javadekar said the forest cover in the national capital has increased since then and public transport system has also improved.
Security was beefed up following a terror alert that said some terrorist have entered the state through Kutch. NSG teams have been sent to Gujarat from Delhi following intelligence inputs, police sources said.
Many of these companies have a waiting period from 6-18 months now, indicating a rise in demand.
Punjab National Bank claims Vadodara municipal corporation worker Shantilal Solanki owes them Rs 16 crores.
Kajal Sharma, personal secretary of Indrani Mukerjea told CBI that she had refused to forge Sheena Bora's signature in a resignation letter to Reliance's Mumbai Metro.
Petrol and diesel prices were cut by Rs 2 per litre each as state-owned oil companies ended a nearly two-year-long hiatus in rate revision, just hours before the general election schedule was announced.
The retail prices of key pulses such as tur and urad have fallen by up to 22 per cent in metro cities over the last three months, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Friday.
The activists argued that an appeal would be filed in the apex court on Monday but by then the MMRCL would have completed cutting all the trees in the colony.
Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik on Tuesday took a jibe at the Shiv Sena-headed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation after his residence in central Mumbai's Kurla area got water-logged following heavy rains.
In the first phase, 1,600 CISF personnel will be deployed to cover the 59 stations of mass transit system, stretching over 62 kms, as against the present system of 700-odd men guarding the network round the clock.
If Ahmedabad is India's preferred candidate, as seems likely, hosting Olympics 2036 should give it a leg up: A bigger airport, a better metro network, more hotels, flyovers and so on, observes T N Ninan.
'It was immoral to cut the trees at Aarey, says Delhi law student Rishav Ranjan.
Red signal for Mumbai Metro Phase II.
This is no surprise, given that the deadline for digitisation in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai was October 31 and DTH firms and multiple-system operators were eyeing a windfall.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday took note of the Eknath Shinde faction's claim about the Uddhav Thackeray camp stalling the proceedings before the poll panel where the former's application staking claim over the Shiv Sena and its symbol is pending, and said it will consider listing its plea before a Constitution bench.
Tokyo -- the songs Japan, Love In Tokyo and Sayonara from the 1966 Hindi film automatically pop up in the mind -- is buzzing and crowded like any other metropolis, discovers Deepa Gahlot. The modern apartment blocks are built cheek by jowl, so close together that one can open the window and borrow sugar from the neighbour in the next building. One of the fears of the Indian traveller is the unavailability of vegetarian food. Every city and town in Japan has an array of Indian restaurants that serve every variety of cuisine, right from Gujarati to Punjabi to Andhra and Kerala meals.
Adani said he expected the number of flyers in the country to grow five-fold, which means India would require 200 additional airports to handle over 1 billion domestic and international passengers across the tier-1, -2 and -3 cities.
The Sena and Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray labelled each other gaddar (traitor) after Shinde's rebellion split their original party last year, while Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis publicly asserted he had exacted revenge on Thackeray for his betrayal.
Officials 'disappointed' as major cricket centres miss out on staging ODI World Cup games
Professor Avkash Jadhav, head of the history department at St Xavier's College and trustee of the city-based KAASH Foundation, said a Special Investigation Team should be set up to inspect the site where trees were cut and ascertain the actual damage done.
Fares to key routes such as Delhi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad may shoot up 80 per cent
Six decades and more later, we are now captives of our identities. Every poll is based on elaborate calculations of electability of candidates on the basis of their castes and other narrow definers. That, along with voter promiscuity, is what defines our political culture, which remains stubbornly resistant to any change, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
Drug major Cipla on Tuesday said it has launched drone-powered deliveries of critical medicines - cardiac, respiratory and other essential chronic therapies - to hospitals and pharmacies across Himachal Pradesh in partnership with Skype Air Mobility, a Gurugram-based drone delivery company. Cipla is the first among large Indian pharmaceutical companies to adopt drone-based deliveries to facilitate expedited supply to stockists in remote areas, it claimed. The Mumbai-based firm said the use of drones will support the on-time delivery of its medicines to chemists and clinics in remote areas, and minimise risks of affecting cold chain products due to temperature excursions.
WhatsApp's advantage is that it is the first app millions of Indian check first thing in the morning and innumerable times during the day and night.
The company will invest Rs 7,000 cr over 2-3 years to launch services in eastern, northeastern states.
The advertisement carries Sena's bow-and-arrow symbol and images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Shinde. It has no image or photo of Shiv Sena founder late Balasaheb Thackeray, a noticeable departure going by its earlier publicity materials.
In the wake of the haul of RDX in Haryana on Wednesday, the Centre has advised authorities in four metros, as well as Hyderabad and Bangalore, to remain on high alert, since there is a possibility of a terror strike strike during the festival season.
To start with, the air freight service will be introduced connecting all four metros-- Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata -- taking Nagpur as a hub of operations in the first phase. This will happen as soon as the Air India could provide an aircraft on wet lease to India Post.
In accordance with ''Level-1'' alert under the graded response action plan (GRAP), private offices will function with physical attendance of 50 per cent of the staff, barring essential categories.
'Corona will go on for more than six months now in Mumbai city.' 'It cannot vanish within just two or three months.' 'This infection may remain there in communities, somewhere or the other, like swine flu.'
Activists and leaders of the opposition -- Congress and Nationalist Congress Party on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court's order restraining authorities from cutting anymore trees in Aarey Colony in Mumbai to make way for a Metro car shed.
Germany's Metro AG to invest 300 million euro in India and open wholesale stores in Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai.
Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com meets the Mumbaikars protesting the decision to relocate the Metro carshed in the city's Aarey Colony forest, an ecological disaster.
During the Diwali week (November 10-16), airfares on major routes across the country have surged by up to 44 per cent.
The elite women runners of the Tata Mumbai Marathon slammed the event organisers, saying there were too many casual runners on the course and that the Metro construction work was also a hindrance.
'Later, I asked Hrithik how he could have remained so calm in the circumstances. He told me simply, "What could have happened? At the most, they would have killed me".'
Museums in metros will undergo a major overhaul with the Centre planning structural changes in its management to bring it at par with the best in the world and the total cost for the exercise is pegged at Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion).
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