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In a major relief to over five lakh site owners in the city, the BBMP council on Wednesday approved recommendations for the amendment of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, which enables site owners to obtain khata by paying improvement and conversion fees to the BBMP. According to the taxation and finance committee chairman P N [...] Continue Reading »
The BWSSB which has booked 92 cases of water theft under its amended Water Act has the biggest fish in its net. The residents of a 13-flat apartment complex on Jayamahal main road caught siphoning off lakhs of litres of water. The apartment has 13 families that used to consume six lakh litres per month, [...] Continue Reading »
Earlier, people used to prefer apartments over individual houses because they considered the former to be safer. But after a few murders in apartments recently,apartment dwellers are taking steps to ensure more security. Though luxury apartments follow strict norms in giving entry to visitors, apartments for upper middle-class group have also started restricting entry to [...] Continue Reading »
According to residents of Knightsbridge Apartment in Whitefield, Vishwanath Reddy, a co-builder tried to manhandle them at the police station who went to complain against him. Vishwanatha Reddy and his relatives owns 72 of the 308 flats but he behaves as if he owns the entire complex. He does not abide by residents’ association rules. [...] Continue Reading »
For more than three years now, the residents of eight posh apartment blocks on Ranka Colony Road in Bilekahalli Bangalore are managing with a narrow strip of mud road next to the dug-up area. Many of the apartments are vacant, only because there is no approach road. Thanks to BBMP suddenly changing its mind and [...] Continue Reading »
The Madras High Court has directed the Chennai Corporation to take appropriate action within four weeks against a building owner for running a service apartment without drainage and sewage connections. A private firm building which is being used as a service apartment does not have sewage and drainage connection, so the owner clears the sewage [...] Continue Reading »
The bureaucrats and politicians colluded with the private builder to grab the 30 acres of forest land in Pune. A special committee probe has found that 30 acres of forest land worth Rs. 1000 crore in Pune was sold to a private builder for mere Rs. 2 crore. The case is now in the Supreme [...] Continue Reading »
The wholesale traders in Delhi bought onions at about Rs 34 per kg while it was sold in retail at Rs 80 per kg.About 11,445 quintals of onion was bought in the Delhi wholesale markets on that day. So the total difference between what the wholesale traders paid and what Delhi households paid from their [...] Continue Reading »
According to the Internet Security Threat Report XV, India ranked second for malicious activity in the Asia Pacific Japan region last year and Bangalore had the fourth highest number of bot-infected computers in India. Cyber criminals could be promoting replica watches, health products, free gift cards, and other fake product offers related to Christmas, using [...] Continue Reading »
Rising price of onions making people teary-eyed is cliched. Restaurant owners across the city are also getting anxious on how to cope with the price rise without losing on profit margins. The government on Monday was forced to suspend onion exports till January 15 as retail prices of the vegetable skyrocketed to as much as [...] Continue Reading »
