Former home secretary Baijal to be new Delhi LG

Career bureaucrat Anil Baijal was on Wednesday appointed as the new Lt Governor of Delhi, a post which has fallen vacant after sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung. Seventy-year-old Baijal, a 1969......

Don't know how relationship with AAP govt will improve: Baijal after swearing-in

IMAGE: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal greets Anil Baijal after he was sworn in as the New Lieutenant Governor at Raj Niwas in New Delhi on Saturday. Photographs: Atul Yadav/PTI Photo Amid......

Crores spent yet Yamuna remains dirty

A parliamentary panel has noted that Yamuna river seems "dirtier" than before despite Rs 6,500 crore having been spent on its clean-up even as a project to lay interceptor sewers along the three......

Radia Tapes: CBI registers eight fresh preliminary enquiries

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday registered eight more preliminary enquiries in connection with issues related to intercepted phone calls of lobbyist Niira Radia against former......

Little has changed in urban India

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, or JNNURM, is unique in some ways. It was the first large development initiative to specifically focus on urban India. Till then the......

PM for urban reforms to check chaos

Noting that urban chaos was becoming a way of life, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday emphasised on urban reforms, saying cities and towns are not an acceptable face of a rapidly......

Column: Meeting the urban challenge effectively

The gap between promise and achievement in JNNURM is enormous, writes Subir Roy. The only positive change visible in Indian cities indicating that policy and action to meet the urban challenge are......

11th Plan: Rs 50,000 cr for urban development

The United Progressive Alliance government has earmarked Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) for Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission during the 11th Five-Year Plan period, Union Urban......