Cities
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 »
As the Monegar Choultry Road subway nears completion, the North Chennai residents are happy as from three-four years they were facing problems commuting in one ways. The subway work started in March 2008 was stopped and resumed many times. The subway would have completed faster if it was in South Chennai, said the residents and [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- The city will now see different lanes for about 160 roads as the ‘ Disaster Management Lanes‘ by the end of this year. A person driving on these lanes at the time of disaster will be punished. The lanes will be designed with 3.5-meters and will be painted blue in colour on the [...] 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 »
Bangalore- The construction of an organic waste convertor unit at Jayanagar was opposed by the residents fearing the negative effects of the convertor. Concerned about the health hazards associated with the organic waste converter unit, the residents of Jayanagar staged a protest to stop the unit from being set up on the Jayanagar swimming pool [...] Continue Reading »
Till November 2012 the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has collected Rs 362 crores as property tax compared to Rs 317 crore in the same period last year. Debabrata Majumder, Member Mayor-in Council (MMIC) Revenue told that they have set a goal for collecting a minimum amount of Rs 700 crores property tax in this financial year. [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- The first ever consumer meet by the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) officials in Division-IV ( Red Hills) was flooded with innumerable complaints of about 80 addressing the grievances. This consumer’s meet was held in order to curb people’s grievances related to water bills, water supply, sewerage, electricity and others. It was held by a team of officials [...] Continue Reading »
Hyderabad- Unlike many other colonies in Chatrinaka police limits, residents of Banjara Colony in Falaknuma won the battle with the bootleggers by getting rid of illicit liquor flourishing from three decades from their neighbourhood. Within 5 km limit of Chatrinika police station is the Ravindra Naik Banjara Colony sheltering 3000 families and is the key place for the illicit liquor sale. [...] Continue Reading »
