-The Asian Age New Delhi: With traces of toxic metals found in fruits and vegetables grown along the banks of the Yamuna river, the city administration is likely to ban farming with contaminated water from the river. The national capital receives 95 per cent of its vegetables and fruits from other states. Of the remaining five per cent, half of these are grown using the Yamuna's polluted water. As the move...

-Down to Earth Five out of 20 world's most water-stressed Cities are in India, says study Months after being named the city with world's most polluted air, here comes another blow for Delhi. A study, carried out by non-profit The Nature Conservancy, says that India's capital city is world's second most water-stressed city, just behind Tokyo. The study was carried out after surveying the water infrastructure of world's 500 Cities with population of...

-The Hindu We need a National Authority on Hunger Elimination, with adequate funds and exclusive powers, administrative and financial Of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations, the first relates to eradicating poverty and extreme hunger, halving hunger by 2015. But most of the countries, including India, have not achieved tangible results on this front. With 2015 around the corner, the new government has a major task of addressing...

-PTI New Delhi: Rising prices of rice in the open market prompted households to reduce consumption and rely on ration shops to buy it at controlled rate, shows a government survey. According to the NSSO survey, Indian families consumed less rice in 2011-12 but their purchases of the commodity under Public Distribution System (PDS) doubled in villages and rose by 66 percent in Cities. The monthly per capita rice consumption in villages was...

-The Hindu   The urban future depends on making Cities intelligent, and that applies equally to both new and old parts of the city Smart Cities, the flagship project of the Bharatiya Janata Party's urban vision, have received a firm financial allocation in the Union budget. The government has provided Rs.7,060 crore to build 100 smart Cities as satellite towns on the outskirts of large Cities to accommodate the burgeoning urban population. Foreign...