Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Housing Board (RHB) on Thursday announced that it would launch housing schemes in Mansarovar, Pratap Nagar and Indira Gandhi Nagar this year in the city. During the budget meeting the RHB said it would construct 7,917 houses across the state and passed the budget of Rs 631crore. According …
Observing that water is a part of the constitutional right to life, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for allegedly refusing to provide water connection to 11 residential buildings in Goregaon (East) for nearly two years. Mantri Realty Ltd (MRL) and its director …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petitions filed by Emaar MGF Land, Sandur Power Company and others seeking to stall the ongoing CBI probe into the land allotments made to these companies during the tenure of late YS Rajasekhara Reddy as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. These …
Realty firm Emaar-MGF (EMLL) had allegedly created 10 companies in the name of its employees on directions of its managing director to usurp prime land being developed near Hyderabad, causing loss to a state-run firm, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has said in its chargesheet. By an agreement dated …
The Rajasthan Government will construct five lakh houses during the next five years under an affordable housing scheme for providing shelter to the weaker sections of society. A loan worth Rs.3,400 crore is being obtained from HUDCO for another housing scheme as well. Stating this while launching the Gandhi Nagar …
Tamil Nadu “destination of choice” for Japanese investors With more Japanese investors considering substantial investment in Tamil Nadu, the State government will take steps to expedite the Ennore-Manali Road Improvement Project, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said on Sunday. Promising that her government will extend its support to attract more Japanese investment …
It is another Greater Noida project gone wrong, as the Uttar Pradesh government is in the middle of a new land deal controversy, and coming just ahead of the assembly polls in the state. The latest controversy is about the Union environment ministry asking the state government and private builder …
The Supreme Court has directed the Bangalore City Cooperative Housing Society Ltd to return the vacant portion of the land it had acquired years ago to its rightful owners, holding that the land acquisition procedure by the state government was “illegal.” A Bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A …
All large residential, commercial and retail projects, projects involving redevelopment of slums, cessed or dilapidated building and public infrastructure projects that fall within the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) will henceforth be required to go through a detailed public hearing in order to get a CRZ clearance. The state government, through …
The second half of 2012 will prove critical for the Vizhinjam International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) project. The three-season Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the project will be completed in July. Before the port can come up on the 110 hectares of land reclaimed from the sea, the EIA report …
The government on Tuesday revised the economic growth rate for 2010-11 financial year slightly down to 8.4 per cent from the earlier estimate of 8.5 per cent. “The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at factor cost at constant prices in 2010-11 has registered a growth of 8.4 per cent over the …
Pune Lavasa Corporation has said it will be filing a writ petition in the Bombay High Court to set aside the orders of the Pune court. The Chief Judicial Magistrate N T Ghadge had ordered Lavasa Corporation and 15 others including promoters and directors to appear in the Pune court …
Govt unable to acquire land for flyovers Shillong: Hopes for Shillongites to see flyovers in the city is about to come crashing to the ground with the government expressing its inability to acquire land for construction of these flyovers. “It is difficult to acquire land. Since most of the land …
Builders constructing malls and multiplexes, even in district headquarters across the state, have to leave a whopping 66 per cent space of the total built-up area for parking. It is mandatory for all municipalities, municipal corporations and urban development authorities in the state to follow this rule while approving building …
The completion of the second phase of Monorail is expected to be delayed despite more than 50 per cent of the civil work on the 11.30-km route from Wadala to Jacob Circle in Byculla being done. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is still hesitant to set a deadline …
Extension of metro up to Nedumbassery under consideration Executing the Kochi Metro Rail project as a Centre-State joint venture scheme has numerous advantages over implementing it as a public-private partnership project. Elaborating on the disadvantages of including private stakeholders in the construction, experts in the mass-rapid transportation sector, who did …
The fate of the Rs 5,000-crore Worli-Haji Ali sea link now lies with the Maharashtra government. A joint technical committee had last week strongly recommended construction of a coastal road between south and north Mumbai. The Rs 9,000-crore coastal road can make a Worli-Haji Ali sea link redundant. The government …
The wait for the Navi Mumbai international airport is getting longer. The state-run City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), nodal agency for the project, is yet to get forest clearance and approval of the Bombay High Court. Though the project had received environment clearance on November 22, 2010, the acquisition …
New Delhi Applying for environment and forest clearances could become easier with the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) saying it would now entertain online applications. Allowing companies to submit project proposals online would also make the process for clearances transparent. Smaller projects that get screened, appraised and cleared by …
Days after two tribals from Pune district filed a petition in the Bombay High Court challenging a government notification which empowers Lavasa Corp to act as a special planning authority, the company termed the move as “motivated and malafide”. The realty firm, constructing a hill city (called Lavasa) near Pune, …
