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The Supreme Court order permitting export of dreaded pesticide Endosulfan has taken many by surprise in Malabar. On May 13, SC had imposed an interim ban on production, use or export of Endosulfan. After considering report from expert committee under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) SC has [...] Continue Reading »
In New Delhi the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee are ahead of examining the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Adarsh housing society scam for misusing housing norms. The officials from the Defence Ministry chaired by BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi reported to the parliament about rules not being followed by the state ministers in [...] Continue Reading »
The senior forest officials approved an ambitious scheme to plant 100 crore saplings across the state in Maharashtra. The principal forest secretary Praveensingh Pardesi reported saying that they have come up with a comprehensive plan to plant 100 cr saplings within a year. However the government agencies are initiating NGOs, educational institutions and entrepreneurs for the [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana city residents shares sentiments about the frequent power cuts. The electricity department in Haryana has promised its residents with proper power supply by weekend. However the residents are not convinced since the department has been promising this since the beginning of summer season. YK Srivastava a senior vice-president of Sector 56 Resident Welfare Association [...] Continue Reading »
The cleanliness plan to fight malaria and dengue cases in Ahmedabad city. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) claimed that collection of wastes and garbage are being left over since long time, henceforth spreading out epidemic outbreaks all over the city. One of the senior municipal official belonging to solid waste management department reported saying that [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore has a migrant population surviving in the apartments on the outskirts of the city. The apartment communities are decorating their homes on the occasion of Dussehra and the residents have been decorating their houses during all the nine days for Dussehra celebrations. Suman Bailur one of the resident belonging to the apartment community reported [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore residents should be prepared to pay more for Electricity Supply Companies (Escoms) are spending nearly Rs 1,000 crore from April 2011 to August 2011. The Karnataka state has purchased only 40.5 million units at a cost of Rs 27.7 crore for the financial year 2008 and Rs 899.56 crore for the financial year. Henceforth [...] Continue Reading »
The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) ordered for the power distributors in Mumbai to supply power to the Group Housing Societies (GHS) in bulk. Also to consider GHS as franchise which also has many possibilities for common power consumers. MERC has made a mandatory rule for the power suppliers to sign a franchisee agreement including [...] Continue Reading »
The Regulatory Commission in Uttar Pradesh has taken up a decision that the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation will have to compensate its consumers monetarily for every load shedding long lasting last for six hours. Power consumers from now on are benefited from long power cuts if they are facing prolonged power cuts by the electricity department. One [...] Continue Reading »
In New Delhi at Zakir Nagar residents have raised over their voice as the stagnant sewage water is raising a stink to all the residents. The residents have been complaining to the civic authorities about the issue but none of the authorities have returned back to the residents. The rickshaw pullers in the area are [...] Continue Reading »
