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GAIL India, said on Monday, that it is going to invest as much as Rs. 15,000 crore for laying new pipelines. This investment would be done within the period of two to three years.

The state-owned gas firm is going for these pipelines since it wants to connect the consumption centers in North India to the gas sources.

B C Tripathi, the CMD of the company made this announcement during a meet organized by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He said that the pipelines will connect cities within Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Punjab and Haryana.

On Monday, the Supreme Court (SC) allowed the stay order on the Reddy brothers' mining operations to be extended. These operations are going on in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Besides this, the SC has also directed the Survey of India (SoI) officials to submit their reports by April 22. This happened after the Reddy brothers were said to have encroached two mines.

The case was filed against the Reddy brothers and also the SoI. The panel from SoI had cleared a 68.5 hectare iron-ore mine project. It said in its report that there was no encroachment done.

The effect of global warming is causing a havoc on the residents of Himachal Pradesh especially Shimla with the temperature soaring an ever-high, i. e. above normal with the Mercury level in Queen of the Hills reporting at 27 degrees Celsius.

The climatic conditions tumbled as the night temperature in the capital town was 16.9 degrees.

Areas such as Sundernagar recorded a maximum of 36.8 degrees Celsius, Bhuntar 35 degrees, Dharamsala (32.8) and Una (40.6) during this phase of the year, according to the forecasts from the Met department.

Andhra students might have to rethink before bunking, as Biometric attendance system is being introduced for the first time in the country for Andhra students who are pursuing professional and non-professional education.

The DHE or the State Department of Higher Education has laid out hints to introduce the Biometric system in order to "improve the academic performance of students."

In a directive passed by the Cabinet on Monday, it has said that it is mulling over the establishment of a single-point clearance system for new hotel projects.

The move, has been taken so that the setting up of hotel infrastructure across India is faster and easier. The Ministry of Tourism is playing a very important role in the setting up of the new structure.

India is currently facing a huge deficit of hotel rooms and experts believe that this directly impacts the tourism sector in the country.

A soaring 45.6 degrees in Western Orissa has been reported, as the temperature continues to torment the residents.

In view of the rising temperature the coastal regions are also believed to have reported a rise in overall rise in mercury, yet the conditions are better off than other regions like Sambalpur, Hirakud, Jharsugoda etc.