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 …
About 900 residential and industrial township projects in the state, mostly in Mumbai, awaiting environment clearance may soon get a push. Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Monday assured that state would soon take up the legislators' demand to increase the condition of construction area for environmental clearance from 20,000sq …
As India is expected to witness rapid urbanisation, the new government at the Centre needs to take stringent measures to ensure use of green technology in the construction and realty space, according to experts. "After a period of slowdown, we now expect to see a growth in the construction and …
PUDUCHERRY: A water users' forum has taken a strong exception to the Puducherry government's decision to provide house sites to the Scheduled Tribe people by converting lands classified as ponds, irrigation channels and community forests. An RTI query filed by the Bangaaru Vaickal Neeraadhara Koottamaippu revealed that the government had …
SURAT: There is uncertainty over return on investment in 11,000 Low Income Group (LIG) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) houses being built by Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) in the city. The SMC has only received 9,200 applications from prospective buyers for the houses until the last date for the submission …
The brick red government houses in Chandigarh are set to go green as, from the government houses designed by architect couple Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, the city is set for a major shift to green housing. The plan for new-look, environment-friendly housing is ready and all new housing projects …
BHOPAL: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stayed all the ongoing constructions in the green belt of Kaliasot River. Director of town and country planning (T&CP;) and chief municipal officer (CMO) of Kolar municipal council would be held responsible in case any buildings are constructed in the green belt after this …
Tells builders to file affidavit with regards to illegal constructions on Katraj hill Pune: The National Green Tribunal Bench (western zone) has summoned the district collector, commissioners of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), following a complaint filed against them for failing to stop rampant …
300-Acre Project In Dombivli, First And Biggest Under New Policy, & 200-Acre Pune Plan Get Nod Two days before the election code of conduct came into force in March, the state urban development department (UDD) headed by chief minister Prithviraj Chavan approved the Lodha Group's sprawling 300-acre township near Dombivli. …
CHENNAI: More than 15,000 buildings along the coastline are likely to be enumerated by the Chennai Corporation for violation of Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification. Sources told City Express that Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) will furnish maps indicating the CRZ areas. The Corporation authorities will mark the areas in …
JAIPUR: Jaipur Development Authority's (JDA) recent survey reveals that around 1,200 residential colonies developed by the housing societies in the city cannot be regularized. With this, residents staying in these colonies will not be able to procure land deeds and avail proper basic facilities such as roads, electricity, sewerage etc. …
Mumbai: Environmental NGO Awaaz Foundation has pointed out several problems in a draft notification on the Western Ghats issued by the ministry of environment & forests (MoEF) earlier this year. The NGO, which had earlier petitioned the HC to declare the Sawantwadi-Dodamarg elephant corridor in Maharashtra an ecologically sensitive region, …
The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday constituted a committee comprising representatives of the Environment & Forests Ministry, the Ridge Management Board and the Delhi Government’s Additional Chief Conservator of Forest to inspect the site of an alleged illegal ‘ashram’ constructed by self-styled godman Asharam Bapu in the Ridge here. The …
At a time when there is an uproar against Haryana government’s move to allow more construction in unexplored regions including the Aravalis, the state has moved the Supreme Court aiming to free huge tracts of land declared as “forest” by the court in a mining related case in 2004. In …
The amount is required to reconstruct a total of 11 lakh slum households in the city as per latest Census figureS. Mumbai will need Rs 55,000 crore if it has to target each and every slum over the next ten years under the central government’s flagship slum-free cities scheme Rajiv …
70 per cent of buildings that will stand in 2030 have not been constructed’ What should set alarm bells ringing for urban developers and policymakers is the data released by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) that says more than 70 per cent of the buildings that should stand …
With the aim to prevent construction activities in Aravalis, including Mangarbani forest, the National Capital Region Planning Board (NCRPB) has asked the Haryana government to address environmental concerns raised by various quarters in the state’s sub-regional plan. According to sources, Haryana has agreed to demarcate the Mangarbani grove as a …
Sets aside Punjab & Haryana HC order giving green light to Tata project The Supreme Court today transferred the cases relating to the controversial high-rise township project of Tata Camelot near Chandigarh’s Sukhna Lake to the Delhi High Court for adjudication by August 31. It also set aside the Punjab …
Even as industrial output is hitting new lows every passing month, India Inc is belatedly waking up to a major environmental clearance deterrent that is jeopardising investments across manufacturing, services and even the agriculture sector. In early 2013, the environment ministry had made it mandatory to obtain a prior environmental …
Even as industrial output is hitting new lows every passing month, India Inc is belatedly waking up to a major environmental clearance deterrent that is jeopardizing greenfield and brownfield investments across manufacturing, services and even the agriculture sector. In early 2013, the Environment Ministry had made it mandatory to obtain …
The district administration has not taken any step to resume its flagship project `System for Attumanal Neutral Distribution’ (SAND) even as people have been facing acute shortage of sand. The district administration had launched the webbased project in April 2012 to distribute sand to bona fide applicants at a reasonable …
