-The Hindu 450 young men and women have been selected as "lead motivators" to spread awareness on PM Modi’s flagship Swachh Bharat Mission. New Delhi: Aimed at sanitising six cities of the National Capital Region (NCR), the Ministry of Urban Development is coming up with a new campaign named ‘Asli Tarakki’ (real development), which will be replicated in other States if it succeeds. About 450 young men and women with “communication skills and...

-The Indian Express In the industrial areas of the National Capital Region, life is tied to the assembly line. But even if rarely, workers clear a space for that which seems impossible: thought and contemplation, and even the artistic life. When the whir of engines and the clang of metal against obstinate metal die down, when the neon lights go down in hundreds of sooty factory buildings in Haiderpur, Ashish Kumar opens...

-Frontline The inability to resolve pressing problems with respect to the production, distribution and availability of food is one of the important failures of the entire economic reform process. IN the fateful month of July 1991, when the devaluation of the Indian rupee presaged the introduction of a whole series of liberalising economic reforms, agriculture was very far from the minds of most policymakers and commentators. The immediate focus was on...

-The Indian Express The UP government will challenge the NGT order on the grounds that the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act does not have a provision for deregistration of vehicles. New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to move the Supreme Court against the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order directing transport departments in the National Capital Region (NCR) to deregister and impound diesel vehicles older than 10 years. The UP government will challenge...

-PTI Chakan (Pune): Environment minister Prakash Javadekar today said the court ban on 2,000cc and above diesel cars and SUVs in the National Capital Region was "not the right way". Calling it "unfortunate", he said the government was taking measures to curb pollution but the ban had resulted in vehicles with latest technologies not being allowed while old polluting vehicles were still plying. "I am very sure that courts will also appreciate that...