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In a Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, India’s financial capital Mumbai has been ranked third cheapest place to live, while national capital New Delhi is fifth. In this year’s ranking of costliest cities of the world, Mumbai has been placed at 131st position, up a place from 132nd a year ago, while New Delhi has [...] Continue Reading »
RBI on June 16, increased key rates for the tenth time in 16 months According to credit rating agency Crisil Ltd, the home loan market’s CAGR is 30 per cent and the total outstanding home loan portfolio is Rs 3.4 trillion. The growth is primarily due to falling property prices in non-metro regions. According to [...] Continue Reading »
In two separate incidents, Noida residents had their cars stolen from the sector 18 parking. Moreover, the parking attendants had no clue about what had happened to the vehicles. In the first incident, Govind Singh, a senior official in electricity department and resident of sector 20 went to sector 18 market along with his family [...] Continue Reading »
Any commercial activity within municipal limits of Gurgaon without obtaining business licence is “illegal and bound to be penalized” without any further notice under section 330 of the Act. The licence clause is applicable even for the existing establishments in the area with retrospective effect since the corporation came into existence in June 2008. The [...] Continue Reading »
A massive pool of stinking sewage water lies dormant along HUDA’s sector 43 entire eastern flank as far as the eye can see. This is a storm water drain which is blocked on all sides and has nowhere to go. With each monsoon shower, the level of the stagnant green muck rises, raising fear amongst [...] Continue Reading »
The civic agencies - Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is responsible for maintaining 80-odd roads and PWD around 30 – are now busy blaming each other for a job not done. MCD and PWD claim that they have repaired a large number of roads in the city, a list of pothole-ridden roads issued by Delhi [...] Continue Reading »
There are a number of large-scale constructions being developed in and around the city Pune and similar works are in the pipeline in other cities as well. Most such projects will impact the ecology of the particular area. Citizens need to be informed about these works at the time the project begins,” Shiv Sena MLC [...] Continue Reading »
The traffic authorities in Pune have said that with the massive increase in the number of vehicles on the roads every year, parking problems are going to increase and that the carriage width of the roads will be reduced if roads are increasingly used to park vehicles. The traffic authorities have also pointed out that [...] Continue Reading »
The 72 wards currently present under Coimbatore Corporation within the corporation limit will be downsized to 60 in the city. The corporation will have 100 wards under its limits. However the expansion plan has excluded Vellalore and Perur town panchayats which were earlier proposed to be included under the expanded corporation limit and have replaced [...] Continue Reading »
Authorities said many directives to control noise pollution and other issues had been issued in the past, but most of them were not adhered to. The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) authorities are now preparing a policy to ensure that all its directives are complied with. “Noise pollution is a serious issue. It has [...] Continue Reading »
