The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The Greater Mohali Area Development Authority has failed to ensure affordable housing for economically weaker sections of the society in projects of private builders, according to the annual audit and inspection report for the financial year 2013-14. As per the report, builders developing a project of 40 hectares or more …
The Supreme Court has directed the Jammu and Kashmir Government to concentrate on efforts to restore the pristine beauty of the world-famous Dal Lake even as it rejected the plea of the State Government for discontinuing the service of Irfan Yasin, Vice-Chairman of the Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA), …
Move comes Uttar Pradesh’s January proposal to notify 100 m around sanctuary Echoing the Uttar Pradesh Government’s proposal in January to notify 100 metres around the Okhla Bird Sanctuary as “eco-sensitive zone”, the Delhi Government’s Forest Department is set to propose the same. As per a directive issued by the …
To kick-start the ambitious project of “Housing for all by 2022”, the government will be holding a meeting of housing and urban development secretaries and ministries to take stock of the schemes in this area. The two-day meet from July 2 is to be presided by Union urban development and …
Companies will now have a more wide range of activities to choose to fulfil the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) norms under the new Companies Act. The government has expanded the activities allowed and included housing for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), disaster management, rural development, road safety and skill development of …
KCZMA handed over details of over 10,000 ‘land modifications’ to local bodies in February. Weakening the Supreme Court’s drive against encroachments and Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) violations along the banks of the Vembanad, the local bodies of Kochi, Kottayam and Alappuzha are sitting on a project for pinning down violators. …
The controversy over the environment clearance for the apartment project of the DLF Group at Chilavannoor is likely to be discussed at the next meeting of the Kerala Coastal Zone Management Authority (KCZMA). The project was given green signal by the KCZMA even when it had appointed a subcommittee to …
Real estate developers who have projects within a 10-km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary here are using environmental concerns to delay giving possession, buyers of these units have alleged. A National Green Tribunal order in April this year had stopped all new constructions within the 10-km radius pending the …
If National Green Tribunal orders are followed, townships in vicinity of Ralamandal Wildlife Sanctuary will land in troubled waters. Taking up the cause of conservation of the forest, the green body has banned construction within 10km radius of the sanctuary thereby bringing the townships at bypass road under scanner. A …
HYDERABAD: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) commissioner Somesh Kumar has directed housing department officials to prepare detailed project reports (DPRs) on two-bedroom houses for weaker sections in upcoming projects. The commissioner held a review meeting with officials of the engineering wing on upcoming housing projects in Greater Hyderabad on Thursday. …
Real estate developers who have projects within a 10-km radius of the Okhla Bird Sanctuary here are using environmental concerns to delay giving possession, buyers of these units have alleged. A National Green Tribunal order in April this year had stopped all new constructions within the 10-km radius pending the …
Many pinned the blame on builders and the Noida Authority for not pointing out irregularities at an earlier stage. Home buyers were left in the lurch after the Supreme Court refused to entertain real estate firm Jaypee Infratech’s plea to direct Noida Authority to grant completion certificates to its projects …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea of real estate firm Jaypee Infratech seeking a direction to Noida Authority to grant completion certificate to its projects which fall within 10km radius of a bird sanctuary. A bench of justices J S Kehar and C Naggapan said, "Let …
In October 2013, NGT had directed the Noida Authority to stop construction activity within 10 km of the wildlife sanctuary The Supreme Court has rejected a real estate firm Jaypee Infratech’s plea that the Noida Authority be directed to grant completion certificates to its projects near the Okhla bird sanctuary …
NGT Order forbids giving completion certificates to projects in 10-km radius of Okhla bird sanctuary Builders in Noida are unable to hand over more than 30,000 completed homes to their buyers, because of a National Green Tribunal order forbidding the Noida Authority from giving completion certificates to projects within a …
Affects 20,000 Homebuyers In Okhla Bird Sanctuary Zone Almost 20,000 homebuyers in Noida face a delay in receiving possession of their completed apartments. This is due to a recent judgment by National Green Tribunal, which prohibits Noida Authority from giving any completion certificate for projects within a 10km radius of …
The Haryana Government has framed a policy for planned development of low-density eco-friendly colonies to discourage development of farmhouses in a sporadic manner in the agricultural zone. A spokesman of the Town and Country Development Department said here today that the aim of the policy was to promote planned development …
All government buildings in the district should implement rainwater harvesting system by June 20, Collector L. Subramanian said on Tuesday. He was addressing a meeting of officials from the district administration and the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage (TWAD) Board convened to discuss measures to raise awareness among the …
The state government is apparently heading for trouble for its policy to regularise unauthorised colonies. Justice Rajan Gupta of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the state to explain the conflict between the policy, announced just before the parliamentary polls, and the provisions of the Punjab Apartment and …
With the National Green Tribunal (NGT) restraining the Himachal Pradesh Government from lifting ban on construction in 17 green belts of Shimla, the entire exercise to allow construction in these green patches has been put on hold, at least for the time being. The state government has been compelled to …
