Governments being the biggest litigants should exercise restraint in approaching courts in order to decongest the system and reduce overall pendency of cases, President Pratibha Patil said on Saturday.
The rail link is considered necessary as it will help decongest the growing traffic once the proposed airport comes up in Navi Mumbai.
On October 25, the government issued an ordinance on the denotification. Earlier, in July 2016, it had denotified fruits and vegetables, thereby allowing farmers to sell these to buyers within or outside APMC yards, as they chose
There would be a marginal 3% increase in freight rates.
With the expert panel's recommendations, the project comes a step closer to getting the environment clearance (EC), to be given by the Union Environment Minister.
The Karnataka government on Monday decided to launch a monorail project and unveiled plans for Metro-II to cover more areas in a bid to further decongest the city's roads.
Aimed at 'decongesting' the traffic in populated cities, the project envisages the railway boogies running on elevated track set on a series of eight-metre-high pillars.
Book a rail ticket online and get it delivered at home.
Over 92,000 undertrials have either been freed or granted bail as part of the government's scheme to decongest jails, with the Allahabad high court leading the tally.
The RBI on Friday said it will give banks Rs 1 trillion through targeted long-term repo operations (TLTROs), of up to three-year maturity, to deploy in "investment-grade corporate bonds, commercial paper, and non-convertible debentures over and above the outstanding level of their investments in these bonds as of March 27, 2020."
"I wanted to give my support and the Congress president's support to the chief minister," he said.
Passengers struggling with heavy luggage and senior citizens trying to make their way in the maze of crowded railway stations can now breathe easy as the Railways have decided to install 100 escalators in major stations.
Announcing this at a function in Pune, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said the decision to double the FSI for new urban townships has received the Cabinet nod. He said the new townships would decongest big cities offering residential premises to a growing number of urban population. The developers in these areas would be charged an extra amount by the government for the additional FSI which would be utilised for other projects, he said on Sunday.
negotiations are on with FIs for funding these projects
He said India was planning to build projects on three rivers flowing into Pakistan to use its share of water.
Coastal road will decongest the traffic of Mumbai and will create 91 hectares of green space.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest scheme to decongest New York is to carve a 10 km path through the centre of Manhattan and turn it a pedestrian zone for select times in a day.
The Airports Authority of India has plans to give a facelift to the Juhu airstrip (India's first civil aviation airport) within a year. AAI will be investing around Rs 75 crore to Rs 80 crore in this project.
Mumbai rail service may get a facelift as the Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav announces the Phase II of developmental plans this Budget.
Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu aligns priorities, funding and organisation to shape a transformation agenda.
The two airports, which are being upgraded, have been facing severe congestion as a result of which aircraft wait many minutes to take off or land.
In a bid to decongest airspace over three major airports, the government plans to increase charges on airlines which operate flights during peak hours and reduce it during the non-peak timings.
Karnataka projects tier-II cities for IT growth
The 80-odd projects completed till now are already valued at Rs 14,000 crore.
The airport would comprise two runways and handle 70 million passengers and 3 million tonnes cargo annually when fully developed.
The ropeway like system runs on electricity and driverless pods and comes down at designated stations, removing the traffic burden from congested roads.
Italian bobsleigh athlete William Frullani has tested positive for a banned substance at the Sochi Winter Olympics and will not compete with the team on Sunday, Italian officials said on Friday.
Smart cities would be built in a way so that they have uninterrupted power, water, proper sanitation, efficient management of solid waste, decongestion of roads, last mile connectivity and effective use of ICT.
Jayalalithaa was admitted to Apollo Hospital on September 22.
Karnataka government would float a special purpose vehicle soon to take up the much-awaited Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) Bangalore Metro Rail project, chief secretary K K Misra said on Thursday.
The petitioners challenged the reclamation and construction work for the project on the primary ground that it will result in damage to the coastline and destroy major marine life along the coast and livelihood of the fishermen.
The DoT has set up a committee for the issue of spectrum cap.
Urban planners and real estate experts say bad town planning in Mumbai and rising deaths during the ongoing pandemic are a "sad reality". Dev Chatterjee and Raghavendra Kamath report.
The meteorological department has forecast more rains through the day and relative humidity at 100 per cent in Delhi.
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