Mumbai
Mumbai- Fire brigade officials have said that a fire broke out in Nariman Point area. They said that the incident happened in the office of the Mittal Towers on the fifth floor but they could find the reason for the fire. The fire was brought under control with the help of four fire engines and [...] Continue Reading »
The BMC said that due to lack of technical issues many civic projects are lying incomplete, so they decided to form a technical advisory committees (TAC) for most of its departments. Sitaram Kunte, Bhrihanmumbai Minicipal Corporation chief had decided to form such committees for education, water, sewage and solid waste management departments. These types of [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- Juhu residents allege that the airport authorities are cutting lot of trees without taking approval from the respected authorities. However the authorities denied the allegations saying that they have cut only the unwanted bushes and shrubs. According to them, they have cleaned the bushes so that the slum dwellers do not indulge themselves in [...] Continue Reading »
Starwood Hotels & Resorts, the owner of luxury hospitality brands Westin, Le Meridien, St Regis and W is planning to construct a hotel in Mumbai. Negotiations are on and the group is planning to conclude at least one deal for a luxury hotel management in central Mumbai and one in south Mumbai within few months. [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body is considering to give the rebate in property tax to the industries in Satpur and Ambad industrial areas of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). Haribhau Phadol, NMC’s deputy municipal commissioner (Octroi), said that they have already given five percent discount to the industries in property tax for using solar energy but now [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- The state government has made it mandatory regarding township projects to create approximately one-fourth of the area for economic activity to boost creation of new economic hubs. Exclusive township projects usually are those when a developer is allowed to create a township as well as offers all the necessary amenities and infrastructure in a composite plot [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is to construct a new public parking lot in Lower Parel in coming January as residents in Mumbai are facing difficulty to park their vehicle. The developers have to handover the parking lot constructed under the parking floor space index (FSI) policy revised by the state government in 2011. The parking [...] Continue Reading »
The state government offers 32 authorised public parking lots under the revised parking floor space index (FSI) policy for 30,000 vehicles in the city. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has received 70 proposals out of which 32 got government’s nod, 20 of them are located in the isle of the city and nine in the western [...] Continue Reading »
With State Bank of India offering the lowest home loan interest rates, people who who have taken loans from other private banks switched to SBI. In the first two months of the third quarter SBI had obtained Rs 800 crores in home loans. Consumers with Rs 400 crore of home loans switched to SBI in November [...] Continue Reading »
Jumeirah Group, a Dubai based hospitality company signed a deal for luxury hotel at Lower Parel in central Mumbai. Jumeirah is the operator of Dubai’s seven-star hotel Burj Al Arab. The hotel in Mumbai will be operational by 2017 and will offer 470 luxurious rooms, service apartments and suites, as well as wide variety of [...] Continue Reading »
