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 National Green Tribunal has sought the Centre's response on a plea of an environmentalist seeking demolition of alleged constructions raised in the Hindon Bird Sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad district. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi issued notices to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate …
Regularizing apartment complexes and commercial buildings that have violated coastal regulation zone (CRZ) norms, a Central act, will not be easy for Maradu municipal authorities. According to municipal officials, who are experts in Kerala Municipal Building Rules (KMBR), they can only regularize buildings that have violated plan norms, and don't …
MANGALURU: Dakshina Kannada Coastal Regulation Zone Management Committee has decided to grant no objection certificate (NOC) to Lakshadweep Administration for the construction of their office and other amenities at Bunder in the city. Committee resolved to grant NOC at a meeting convened by deputy commissioner A B Ibrahim on Monday. …
SHILLONG: The State Government will decide its future course of action on removal of illegal structures along the Wah Umkhrah River only after disposal of a case filed pertaining to this issue. Following a directive from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to remove all illegal structures along the river, the …
NOIDA: In order to boost green building movement in Noida, Greater Noida and the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) areas, the process of green building certification by GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) will soon be strengthened. Even though the three development authorities provide incentives to all those …
The Union Cabinet approved on Wednesday the launch of the “Housing for All by 2022” programme for the rehabilitation of slum-dwellers and promotion of affordable housing for the urban poor. The target is to provide nearly 20 million houses over seven years. The programme is a key promise in the …
PUNE: The National Green Tribunal bench in Pune has restrained two developers from constructing a resort-cum-hotel on a hill top at Lonavla for causing environmental degradation and also endangering property of a welfare home for ageing blind located adjacent to the construction site. In a judgment pronounced on May 26, …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has “prima facie” found merit in the recommendations by the Chandigarh administration for declaring an eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary. But instead of an ESZ measuring 100 metres in radius, as suggested by the Punjab government, the UT administration …
Policy Announced Over A Year Ago; Will Help DDA Get Land For Housing Taking the city a step closer to another housing boom, the Union urban development ministry notified operational guidelines for implementing the land pooling policy on Tuesday.The policy itself was notified one-and-a-half years ago and its implementation will …
The Punjab Government wants to have just 100 metres of eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) around the Sukhna Wildlife Sanctuary. If cleared by the Central Government, this could not just pave the way for construction of Camelot, multi-storey and multi-towered housing project by Tata Housing Development Corporation, but also by several other …
Out of its six housing projects for rehabilitating the urban poor of the city under the Centre's JNNURM scheme, the Dehradun Municipal Corporation could start construction only in two, while three were cancelled as land could not be acquired. The fate of the last hangs in the balance. What's more, …
Foreign tourists start online campaign to save trees Deodar trees in McLeodganj, Bhagsu and Dharamkot areas near Dharamsala are under threat. The trees have been taken inside the constructed areas of commercial buildings coming up in these areas. In some cases, trees stand in the middle of buildings which illustrates …
PUNE: Expressing concern about the city and the region losing its wetlands to untamed urbanisation, experts have demanded that urban ecology should be a part of the city's infrastructure development plan. "Urbanisation in Pune is a pervasive and rapidly-growing form of change in land use. Especially, the encroachment around water …
Buildings coming up illegally in areas which were hit by floods Residents of Srinagar city are alleging rampant construction of shopping malls and other commercial buildings in the flood-hit localities. They alleged that violations of the Srinagar Master Plan were taking place under the nose of the authorities but nothing …
Over three billion sq ft area of green building projects has been registered so far by Indian Green Building Council, which aims to rope in 10 billion sq ft by 2022. IGBC is a part of the industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), which is involved in promoting the …
The DIPP has asked all secretaries of central ministries and chief secretaries of the states and Union Territories to simplify regulatory environment and to introduce online filing of forms so as to improve the ease of doing business on "priority basis". Listing out the steps, it said that all return …
The Delhi Government on Wednesday decided to use remote sensing satellite technology for tracking and mapping illegal constructions and encroachments in the Capital and to keep a check on them. Task forces led by sub-divisional magistrates have also been formed to stop illegal constructions. Official sources said that the State …
The High Court of Meghalaya, which took up the case of high rise buildings on Wednesday, posted the matter for hearing again on May 27, since the copies of the report of the Committee constituted by the Court on illegal buildings had not been furnished to the counsels of the …
There is nothing one can do, except approaching a court Imagine buying a house by liquidating crucial investments and taking a huge loan. When it’s time for you to move in, the government declares it illegal. This is exactly what happened with buyers in two separate cases in Noida. In …
Chief minister Oommen Chandy has announced that the state government would start a housing project for the endosulfan affected people in Kasaragod district and also a rehabilitation village would be set up for the affected people. Inaugurating the mass contact programme in the district on Thursday, he said the 100 …
