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Mumbai is the most expensive city for expatriates in India, according to a global consulting firm’s Cost of Living Survey, released on June 26, 2018, with Hong Kong topping the list as the world’s … READ FULL STORY
A petition seeking to declare as null and void, the entire land acquisition proceedings initiated for the proposed greenfield Chennai-Salem highway project, was filed in the Madras High Court. The plea, filed on June … READ FULL STORY
Societies in Gurugram, where diesel generator (DG) sets were operated for several hours a day, had 30 per cent higher PM2.5 and PM10 levels, compared to the levels before the usage of DG sets, … READ FULL STORY
A Bombay High Court division bench of justices AS Oka and Riyaz Chagka, on June 26, 2018, warned that it will not accept any excuses from the Maharashtra government on any breach of noise … READ FULL STORY
Cities were awarded under the Swachh Survekshan-2018, for their work on cleaning the city but not on how to process and recycle the waste, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said, on June … READ FULL STORY
Amid a major hue and cry over the felling of around 14,000 trees, for the redevelopment of residential colonies in Delhi, the state-owned NBCC, on June 25, 2018, defended its decision, saying it would … READ FULL STORY
The Telangana government will soon implement electric feeder services in the high-density corridors as a pilot project, municipal administration and urban development minister KT Rama Rao announced, on June 25, 2018. He instructed officials … READ FULL STORY
The Haryana Town and Country Planning Department has decided to recover long-pending dues from developers and colonisers in the state, for the provision of various city infrastructure by the government. The Department has started … READ FULL STORY
The government has notified amendments in the Delhi’s Master Plan, which will also allow shop-cum-residence complexes to continue with activities permissible in a local shopping centre (LSC), subject to conditions. The LSCs are government-approved … READ FULL STORY
The Madras High Court was, on June 22, 2018, informed by an amicus curiae that unauthorised constructions were continuing close to the beach, along a prime stretch of the East Coast Road on the … READ FULL STORY
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), in an affidavit filed recently, informed the Bombay High Court that it was a ‘conscious decision’ to opt for an elevated route for the Mumbai Metro 2B … READ FULL STORY
Eminent scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), K Kasturirangan, has called for an agriculture regime, where water requirement comes down from (the current) 80-85 per cent to something like … READ FULL STORY
According to a report by property consultant Knight Frank, co-working companies took up two million sq ft space in the first quarter of 2018 itself, which has exceeded the annual tally of 2017 at … READ FULL STORY
