Here are some salient features of Indian Urbanisation While home to a minority of the population, Indian cities contribute to about 2/3 of the economic output. The population of Indian towns and cities is expected to increase from 282 million to 590 million in the next 20 years. Already, slums( manifestation of urban poverty) now…
KATHMANDU, April 20: The talks held between the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) on Wednesday to resume collecting garbage from Singha Durbar, Prime Minister’s Baluwatar residence and the Presidential residence ended without any conclusion. This has increased the conflict between the federal government and the Kathmandu Metropolis.
The Indian Railways have been running some goods trains without guards during the night hours, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in the last session of Parliament. Trains without guards would be the end state of modernised railways. But the reality, as unearthed by the Comptroller and Auditor G