Governance

Centre all set to construct 5.2 million toilets by August 31

Rs. 2,037 crore allocated for Ganga's revival in Union Budget 2014-15

Impact study demands for a no-go zone for hydel projects in Sutlej

India receives only 85.8 mm of rain this June

 Visitors and the Uttarakhand Tourism Department liken the mountain to 'devbhoomi' or the heavens but it isn't often that a villager of the area echoes those sentiments. Most of them are weary of the unending struggle to live in harmony with those steep slopes that make all manner of infrastructure difficult.

The National Foundation for Corporate Social Responsibility is launching the nine month intensive certificate course in order to meet the burgeoning demand for trained CSR professionals from the corporate, public and NGO sectors

Timeline for the Course

-Registration opens: 6^th May 2014

Registration closes: 31^st July 2014

High Court raps Narmada Authority over incomplete canal work

Twenty four students were washed away in the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh earlier this month. The students, all from an engineering college in Hyderabad, were picknicking in the river on their way back from the tourist town of Manali. While cooling their heels in the knee deep water and clicking photographs, they missed the rising wall of water that engulfed them in minutes.

Global surface temperature breaks past records

Closure notice issued to Coca Cola's UP plant