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 …
Tamil Nadu Government would construct one lakh concrete houses at a cost of Rs 1000 crore to replace damaged huts in the Cyclone Thane affected districts of Cuddalore and Villupuram, Governor K Rosaiah said on Monday. The state government has also presented a memorandum spelling out the quantum of damage …
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 state government has issued a notification making it mandatory for all projects on more than 2,000 sq m land to reserve 20 per cent of the plot or constructed space for smaller sized affordable housing. The rule would be applicable to the 26 municipal corporations and all municipal councils …
The members of All India Farmers' Association staged a demonstration in front of the Collectorate on Monday. They urged the Government to construct houses under the Green House scheme to those who built dwellings in the Government poromboke areas. Before removing the encroachment by the officials of Public Works Department …
25 acres for Amritanandamayi Trust to set up hospital, medical college The State Cabinet on Thursday went on a land allotment spree sanctioning prime real estate in different parts of the State to private players and government agencies for commercial, industrial and residential purposes. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Higher …
After dealing with the Adarsh file on several occasions, seeking a green nod for its construction and owing a flat in the same building, former babu PV Deshmukh now says that he isn't sure if the 31- storey apartment building in upscale Colaba is legal or illegal. " I cannot …
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, …
Chandigarh: The Tatas today defended its ambitious plans of raising skyscrapers in the vicinity of Chandigarh by claiming the project neither obstructed the view of the Shivaliks, nor was it in the Sukhna Lake's catchment area. In a reply filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, managing director of …
After a long hiatus, the state government has given its nod to another cluster redevelopment project - that of the century-old Botawala chawl in Masgaon. The redevelopment of the chawl is only the fifth such project to be sanctioned in three years since the rules for cluster scheme came in …
In yet another push for the redevelopment of Dharavi slums, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced four floor space index under the revised Development Control Regulations (DCR). The state government plans to provide 300 sq ft of carpet area for the existing occupier of a structure free of cost and …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought reply from the Uttar Pradesh government and the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority on a petition filed by villagers of Ghodi Bacheda seeking quashing of the land acquisition for developing housing projects in several Noida villages. Farmers of Ghodi-Bacheda have been unhappy …
The ambitious Rs 15,000-crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), which aims to redevelop the largest slum in Mumbai, got a shot in the arm on Tuesday with the state government approving the new Development Control Rules (DCR) for the project. On Monday, the government had announced that the current occupiers of …
Maharashtra Cabinet changes norms to make present occupiers of slums eligible for rehabilitation. Ahead of the crucial elections to the Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation next month, the Maharashtra government on Monday took a crucial decision with regard to the eligibility of the occupiers of slums for rehabilitation with cut off …
There is some relief in sight for the allottees of Commonwealth Games Village flats. The Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) has found the project acceptable “from the point of view of aesthetic quality of urban and environmental design”. But the commission has made it clear that issuing completion certificate for …
The High Court on Monday ordered notices to the State government, BBMP and Maverick Holdings and Investment Company in connection with a petition filed after the failure to construct Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quarters. The petitioners Meena S and 12 others submitted that the State and the BBMP were trying …
KOCHI: The Public Works Department (PWD) has formulated 50 projects which will be implemented in the state soon, PWD Minister V K Ebrahim Kunju has said. “Most of these projects have already begun. Strict instructions have been given to the officials concerned to complete the projects on time. A state-level …
Families from economically weaker sections (EWS) in Ejipura have a reason to cheer as the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has finally come out with a plan to construct new quarters for them. The BBMP and the Maverick Holdings entered into an agreement on Monday to construct residential-cum-commercial complex at …
Over a dozen housing societies, including the military-run Defence Housing Authority (DHA), are in trouble with the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) for brazenly violating the environment laws of the country. Section 12 of the Environment Protection Act 1997 says no proponent of a housing project can commence construction, or …
Dharamsala: The green cover in the McLeodganj area in Dharamsala is being threatened by illegal dumping of solid waste along the hill slopes. People carrying out construction work in the Dharamsala area are posing a threat to the hills by throwing muck of dismantled buildings. Many such constructions are coming …
CHENNAI: Seven years after tsunami, there is hope for 566 families of Nochikuppam as they will be allotted a new house under the Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project (ETRP) of the World Bank at Okkiyam Thoraipakkam under the hire-purchase scheme. Sources said the decision to allot houses to the beneficiaries by …
