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Residents of the prestigious Diamond District Apartments, located on Old Airport Road, are a worried lot. Around 100 cement pillars on which the apartment complex stands have developed cracks due to seepage. Residents of Diamond District allege that beams and columns at the basement of the sprawling complex have developed large cracks. The builder, entrusted [...] Continue Reading »
Builders in collusion with the officials have encroached upon vast extent of lake land to construct apartment complexes and form layouts. Their modus operandi is simple: Dump debris to fill the lake. Once a portion is levelled off, usurp it by creating fictitious documents. The defiant act doesn’t end there. A survey of 842 lakes [...] Continue Reading »
The cover of PAN has been gradually extended by the Income Tax Department. The move is expected to help the tax department track high value transactions. The Finance Ministry has stated that any individual who makes a transaction of Rs 25 lakhs and more, and fails to quote the PAN, will receive summons by the [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation Gurgaon (MCG) commissioner has called a meeting regarding the disposal of sewage in open drains and vacant areas on Thursday and has also asked the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) officials concerned to attend to the problems. It has been brought to the notice of civic bodies by RWAs and individuals that [...] Continue Reading »
Noida and Greater Noida have become populous cities. In addition, several housing projects are underway in Noida Extension. In the last two years, 397 hectares of land has been dedicated for group housing schemes and that has led to a hike in population density. The density of Gautam Budh Nagar is 1,252 now as compared [...] Continue Reading »
Isha Foundation a non-religious, non-profit, public service organization, which addresses all aspects of human wellbeing offers Inner Engineering with Sadhguru, founder of Isha Foundation. Inner Engineering is offered as an intensive program for personal growth and establish the possibility to explore the higher dimensions of life and offers tools to re-engineer one’s self through the [...] Continue Reading »
Industrial waste which was earlier getting illegally dumped directly into the outflow tank of the plant at the exit gate has been stopped and security personnel man both entrances and exit gates and have barricaded the outflow area. After the incident of assault on chief conservator of forest U V Singh on February 20, BWSSB [...] Continue Reading »
People-friendly administration is new Krishnagiri District Collector C.N. Maheshwaran’s agenda. At his maiden weekly Grievance Day Program on Monday, he gave instructions to all department heads to maintain registers for public complaints. He insisted that each and every complaint should be countersigned by the head of the department. All the departments should appoint a liaison [...] Continue Reading »
About two decades ago, IIT Madras estimated that about 650 waterbodies existed in the Chennai region. More than half of them were located south of River Adyar. At present, most of the waterbodies within the city have vanished and only a few remain in the immediate periphery. According to records of the Water Resources Department [...] Continue Reading »
The delay of Porur flyover made life difficult for motorists travelling on Mount Poonamallee Road and Arcot Road. The delay in the land acquisition process has delayed the project to construct a flyover at the busy Porur junction. The Rs.34.72-crore flyover would benefit motorists travelling on Mount Poonamallee Road and Arcot Road and expected to [...] Continue Reading »
