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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 »
The residents of Doddanekundi are sick of the nearby polluting-factories. The members of Doddanekkundi Residents’ Welfare Association have been complaining to Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) regarding this issue for more than a decade but till now no action has been taken. Sources said Graphite India is one of the few units that have been [...] Continue Reading »
The Mumbai home sales market has stagnated in June due to high prices and most buyers stop purchasing and expect the prices to come down. The Mumbai real estate market piles up with unsold inventory amounting to 80,000 units which forms 37 per cent of the total residential supply under construction. However, rising inventory with [...] Continue Reading »
The Mumbai apartments sale in the financial year 2012 dropped by more than 60% from its peak in 2007 and 35% from 2011. The city’s real estate market has stagnated with only 45,000 apartments sold in the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR) during 2011-12, well below the market average of 80,000 units annually. A report released by Knight Frank research [...] Continue Reading »
At the BBMP Budget session on Wednesday, Mayor of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, D Venkatesh Murthy, announced that all 198 corporators should take up an ‘andolan’ to ban plastic in their respective Wards. He added that whoever is successful in this campaign will be rewarded with Rs 1 lakh. Though the Palike had taken [...] Continue Reading »
Dust that flies in from the stone-crushing units in the area is the major problem faced by the residents of Sankar Nagar in suburban Pammal which is a town in the neighbourhood of Chennai. There are 53 stone-crushing units in the Sankarnagar, polluting the homes, streets and shops situated in the area. Exposure to such [...] 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 »
The state authority has issued notices to renew licenses of lifts and elevators, to many residential and commercial buildings in Ahmedabad and other cities of Gujarat. It is mandatory that lifts need to be licensed and be renewed regularly. Using lifts that are older and which are not in proper condition is dangerous. An incident [...] Continue Reading »
Real estate developer True Value Homes India has announced a Rs 600-crore super premium apartments project ‘Quadrant‘ in Chennai on Monday. Chairman N Ravichandran said the firm will begin its construction on the 18-storeyed building this week. He also said that Quandrant will have about 100 units with a size of 2,000 sq ft to [...] Continue Reading »
The Kerala State Housing Board is set to launch commercial ventures to build 60 green apartments in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. The apartments will be set up on land it owns in Panampilly Nagar in Kochi and Ambala Nagar in Thiruvananthapuram. The Board has applied for Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (Griha), the national rating [...] Continue Reading »
