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The final hearing of the acquisition of land in Greater Noida Extension including Patwari where the notifications were quashed by the division bench of Allahabad High Court has arrived. The hearing will be on July 26. A bench of the court deferred till July 26 hearing in about two dozen other writ petitions filed on [...] Continue Reading »
A close look at the overall property sales across India in the last nine months reveals that residential homes in the price bracket of Rs 25 -40 lakh accounted for more than 85% of property sales. There is latent demand in mid-segment housing nowadays. Indian economy started picking up and most of the developers are [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai-based RNA Builders (NG) have to pay Rs 1 lakh fine for the failure in handing over the flats to their buyers. The forum National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission then ordered the builder to return the money along with compensation.The complainants, however, were aggrieved at this ruling as they did not want the money, but [...] Continue Reading »
Residents in some parts of Bangalore have evolved various forms of water management. Cases like these are a dime a dozen in Bangalore East. Residents of these areas get the least quantity of Cauvery water when compared to other older areas. Water supply is so scanty in Davis Road that residents of apartment block have [...] Continue Reading »
Once East Coast Road (ECR) was the pride of Chennai but because of encroachments by builders, unauthorised on-street parking and extensive damage due to water pipeline laying work has made it into a deathtrap for pedestrians. In the last three years about 60 pedestrians were killed by speeding vehicles as unauthorised construction have shrunk the [...] Continue Reading »
The issue of badly potholed roads within the civic limits of Pune is worsening day by day with corporators from all parties criticising the administration for the sorry state of affairs. Some of the roads and the potholes on them have developed due to lack of storm water drains. Contractors are doing inferior quality work [...] Continue Reading »
The under-construction building which collapsed recently in Shalimar Bagh, Ghaziabad was built by the construction firm, Kranti Associates. Police is invetigating the case and came to conclusion that- builder’s elder son had not only ordered his workers “to use substandard cement, but also did not allow sufficient curing of the cement to save on electricity” [...] Continue Reading »
Resident Welfare Association (RWA) of L B Shastrinagar started a noble cause of sorting out the wet waste In 2006, the Resident’s Welfare Association (RWA) in L B Shastrinagar, started working on an anti-plastic drive. Three years ago, little did hard core techie Suresh Kumar think that a seminar on environment would usher in a [...] Continue Reading »
From September, Bescom Bangalore Customers can get information on power outages, reminder to pay bill and warning prior to disconnecting power supply in their mobile phone. Bescom Bangalore is working with Infosys Technologies to establish this customer call centre. For this, you have to give your contact details to Bescom (Bangalore Electricity Supply Company). Bescom [...] Continue Reading »
The selling rate of apartments at UB Towers is Rs 30,000 to Rs 33,000 a sq ft. But the guidance value, released recently by the government’s stamps and registration department, puts the revised rate at Rs 10,000 to Rs 11,000 per sq ft. This shows that there is a sharp decline of whopping 200 per [...] Continue Reading »
