India
UP cops destroy Akhilesh's 'communal' excuse to suspend IAS officer
The excuse of communal tension to suspend Durga Shakti Nagpal has been flayed by opposition parties and other IAS officers, and now so have the local police.
India
UP: IAS officer Nagpal, leading crackdown on sand mafia, suspended
A woman IAS officer, who had clamped down on illegal mining and resolutely taken headon the powerful sand mafia in Uttar Pradesh, has been suspended barely 10 months after she got her first posting in the state.
India
Why India needs to find an alternative to sand in construction
With sand mining playing havoc with India's coastal biodiversity, environmentalists have called for developing alternatives for construction and development activities.