The tourism ministry has roped in oil PSU ONGC to keep six major tourist sites clean and environment-friendly. The six sites are: Taj Mahal, Khajuraho temples, Konark Temple, Ajanta-Ellora Caves, Bodhgaya and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal. ‘ONGC has expressed its willingness to join the Clean India campaign and take up six tourist destinations across the…
The Shimla Municipal Corporation’s green fee on all vehicles bearing non-HP registration is expected to be applicable from the first week of September. The union government has given its permission to the MC to implement the green fee. Earlier, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) had allowed the implementation of the fee in principle….
Nearly 30,000 low-income cotton farmers in India stand to gain in terms of increased incomes by switching to organic cotton production, following a commitment made by two Japanese companies to the Business Call to Action (BCtA). BCtA is a global initiative that encourages companies to develop innovative business models that combine commercial success and sustainable…
According to a new United Nations report, in 2009 around 54 per cent of children in India were enrolled for pre-school education as compared to around 48 per cent in China. Comparatively, in 2000 around 22 per cent of children in India were in pre-schools as compared to 38 per cent in China. The vastly…
‘A theory which explained everything else in the whole universe but which made it impossible to believe that our thinking was valid, would be utterly out of court. For that theory would itself have been reached by thinking, and if thinking is not valid that theory would, of course, be itself demolished. It would have…
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has sought assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for a project to build houses for the economically weaker population in the capital. ‘I don’t know whether the USAID will help us in this regard. But I would want them to assist in building houses for economically…
‘A domestic animal is one, such as a dog or a cat, that is sufficiently tamed to live with a family, or one, such as a cow, a chicken or a horse, that can be used to contribute to a family`s support,’ according to various English dictionaries. When something is `domesticated`, it is converted to…
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs will soon come out with a sustainability reporting framework for companies to ensure that they follow certain parameters while meeting environmental challenges. ‘Any corporate body while they perform, while they do corporate social responsibility, they should also ensure certain parameters (are met),’ Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily stated to the media…
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has announced an offer of Rs 990 crore to the Women and Child Development Ministry for its women empowerment programmes in gram panchayats. In his words, ‘We can start with the most backward Naxal-affected districts or districts where female literacy is low. We can share one per cent of the…
An absence of aspiration is putting sustainable development goals in jeopardy All film lovers will recall the famous scene in the acclaimed Western movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: our anti-heroes stand at the cliff edge with the prospect of either jumping off into the rapids below or being caught by the chasing posse…
