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A crude sutli bomb exploded at city builder Sunil Jejani’s front yard at Chakenya Layout, the intensity of which led to panic among nearby residents. When the blast took place, Jejani was having dinner with state minister Nitin Raut at their residence. On being informed by his family, Jejani and Raut rushed to the spot [...] Continue Reading »
Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) across Noida have taken an initiative to survey all the sectors and make residents aware of tenants and servants verification. This move was developed following the murder of a jeweler by his servant on July 2 in sector 50. Vimal Sharma, the president of RWA sector 50, said that, on July [...] Continue Reading »
Bandipora, a north Kashmir town has been turned into a garbage dump with heaps of garbage present on the roadside in many wards including the main market. Locals said that traders and municipality employees dump garbage and as a result foul smell emanates from the garbage which makes movement of pedestrians difficult. Residents of ward [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Yamunanagar town, Jind and Gurgaon, blocked the National Highway No. 73-A and also quarreled with the police protesting over power problem on Tuesday. The police even chose to a mild cane charge to scatter the protestors who were demanding regular power supply to their homes. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, told the residents [...] Continue Reading »
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet against 13 accused people in the Adarsh Housing Society scam, including the former Maharashtra Chief Minister, Ashok Chavan, the former MLC, Kanhaiyalal Gidwani, senior retired Army officials and bureaucrats and a former employee of the Defence Ministry. Charge sheet has also been filed against senior bureaucrats [...] Continue Reading »
Beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines has planned to sell two of its unused properties in Mumbai and Goa to partly repay staggering loans of about Rs 7,500 crore. The Mumbai property is likely to fetch Rs 120-90 crore and Rs 30 crore for the Goan villa by the current market value. Prakash Mirpuri, an airline staff, said [...] Continue Reading »
A workshop was organised by Embarq India, a not-for-profit enterprise of the World Resources Institute (WRI), in which town planners, architects, mobility experts as well as developers discussed the concerns with regard to sustainable mobility and infrastructure within special residential zones (SRZs) that are coming up in the city outskirts. According to the Confederation of [...] Continue Reading »
It has been a happy time for those hunting for a house in Bhubaneswar. Tenants are left with multiple options to choose from. The rental market in Bhubaneswar has become tenant friendly. There are many houses with ‘to let’ signs in and around IRC Village, Nayapalli, Neeladri Vihar, GGP Colony, areas to south of Khandagiri [...] Continue Reading »
In order to increase revenue from property tax, Nagpur Municipal Corporation has set new targets for revenue inspectors across 10 zones. Property tax inspectors have been directed to identify 75 new properties each that are not being taxed in their zones in this financial year. According to a senior official, Laxmi Nagar zone has 16 [...] Continue Reading »
An environmental researcher, Arshinder Pasricha, has been raising her voice against residents’ burning of leaves practice in Mohali for the past couple of months. Few of the Resident Welfare Associations have also joined her in this effort. She says that usually, the employees of the Municipal Corporation burn leaves and other related stuff. But now, [...] Continue Reading »
