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 …
New Delhi: The environment ministry has ordered demolition of the 31-storey Adarsh housing society building for failing to obtain green clearances needed for construction in a coastal zone like south Mumbai
PIL calls to stop development projects near lake to protect water level, ecology The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Haryana government to explain if the upcoming housing colonies by various developers will pose a threat to the catchment area of Sukhna lake. A Division Bench comprising acting …
Amruta Byatnal Pune: Chairman of the expert team of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) Naresh Dayal said on Friday that prima facie there was no large-scale destruction of forest land for the controversial hill city project, Lavasa. Speaking to journalists on the third and final day of inspection, …
Workers in the construction industry are in a state of unemployment as a result of the ban on sand transport in the district. Deadlock: The Ambedkar Bhavan in Chikkaballapur is still far from complete. (Right) Coolie workers, building workers and public and private contractors' union protested in front of the …
Amruta Byatnal Pune: The Ministry of Environment and Forests team that is visiting Lavasa, the controversial hill city near Pune, was greeted by two opposing groups on the first day in the city. The five-member team led by retired IAS officer Naresh Dayal will be in Lavasa for three days …
The Lavasa Hill Township and its holding company HCC are caught in a legal logjam. Following the 25 November show-cause notice and stop-work order from the environment ministry (MoEF), work at the township site near Pune has come to a halt. According to the company, 10,000 workmen are sitting idle. …
The Bombay High Court (HC) today declined to interfere with a directive of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) asking Lavasa Corporation to stop construction at its multi-crore township in Pune district, pending hearing of a showcause notice. The HC asked MoEF to take, by January 10, a …
Shalini Nair THE PROJECT Lavasa is a hill city being developed by Lavasa Corporation Ltd sprawled over 25,000 acres in the Sahyadri Hills of the Western Ghats, near Pune. It will comprise five towns (Dasve, Mugaon, Dhamanohol, Sakhari-Wadavali and a Central Business District) with apartments and villas facing the valley …
UMESH MOHITE MUMBA A division benc of the Bombay high court hearing the petition filed b the Lavasa Corporatio Limited, has asked the min istry of environment an forest (MoEF) to conside allowing Hindustan Con struction's Lavasa unit t resume part of constructio activity. The HC has sug gested that …
The Bombay High Court on Thursday asked the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to consider allowing Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) to carry out construction work on its projects in Lavasa that would cause minimal environmental damage.
The minutes of a crucial meeting held at the Union environment ministry just before the issue of the show cause notice to Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in Colaba point to the key role played by the Maharashtra urban development department in allowing the scam to take place. At the meeting, …
In a point-by-point rebuttal to the issues raised by the Environment Ministry, Lavasa Corporation, which is developing a township near Pune, has said that its project was
