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The National Green Tribunal (NGT), on July 3, 2018, rapped the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, for not obeying its order to refund Rs 12 crores to a private builder in the state and … READ FULL STORY
The Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis-led Urban Development Department, helped a private builder to ‘illegally acquire’ 24 acres of notified land at Kharghar, in Navi Mumbai, in the name of compensating a group of … READ FULL STORY
Toll exemption for small vehicles and state transport buses, offered by a few state governments, is emerging as one of the major risks for road developers, particularly working on the state-led build operate transfer … READ FULL STORY
The civic body in south Delhi, has rolled back an increase in the rate of tax for small commercial property owners, for the current financial year, in a move that will benefit nearly 30,000 … READ FULL STORY
The empowered committee, set up by the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, will reach out to home buyers to resolve their problems ‘at the earliest’, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, on July 1, … READ FULL STORY
The Bombay High Court, on June 30, 2018, asked the director of IIT-Bombay, to set up an expert team comprising structural engineers and others, to inspect the site of the recent wall collapse at … READ FULL STORY
The Salem-Chennai expressway project is not meant for the benefit of any individual but for the overall development of Tamil Nadu, chief minister K Palaniswami said, on June 30, 2018. “It (the question) itself … READ FULL STORY
The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC), on June 28, 2018, approached the Bombay High Court, seeking an urgent hearing on a plea filed by the Parsi community in the city, opposing the alignment of … READ FULL STORY
Union housing and urban affairs minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, on June 28, 2018, said that the agencies (NBCC and the CPWD) entrusted to executing the redevelopment of seven colonies in south Delhi, have been … READ FULL STORY
The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) has sent a show-cause notice to Google India Ltd, for allegedly destroying a green belt in front of its office in Sector 15 and constructing a road to … READ FULL STORY
The government has started discussions, for the sale of Air India’s iconic building in Mumbai to the country’s biggest container port JNPT, as part of its efforts to raise funds for the cash-strapped national … READ FULL STORY
In a letter to union power minister RK Singh, Delhi’s power minister Satyendar Jain, said that the thermal generation stations, Dadri I and II, Jhajjar and Badarpur, had been facing an ‘acute coal shortage’ … READ FULL STORY
In a novel, environmental-friendly move, the Madras High Court has set up an ‘Environmental Fund’, to finance tree plantations or maintenance of water bodies, out of the costs imposed on litigants or voluntary donations … READ FULL STORY
