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The officials of Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) claimed that due to unavailability of coals and pitiable condition of their thermal power plants in Panipat, Kanjhawal, Yamuna Vihar and Jhajjar, DHBVN could not generate electricity to meet the demands of 200 to 250 lakh units per day. A demonstration has been held by all [...] Continue Reading »
The government focuses on austerity over growth to contain the increasing fiscal deficit, it has cut the size of interest rate subvention corpus for affordable housing loans by 20%. It has fixed the corpus at Rs 400 crore for the current fiscal, 20% less than last fiscal’s Rs 500 crore. The government runs a 1% interest subvention [...] Continue Reading »
Open plots in residential areas in Indore are turning into garbage dumping ground, where people allegedly dispose of domestic waste without caring for health and hygiene of those living here. A survey found that vacant plots in three posh areas of the city have been converted into garbage dumping points. Deepsingh Chhabra, a resident of Shreenagar main [...] Continue Reading »
The government is to provide interest subsidy of up to Rs 14,912 this fiscal for housing loan not exceeding Rs 15 lakh, which came as a relief to small home loan borrowers. The Cabinet decided to extend by one year the interest subvention scheme of one per cent on housing loans up to Rs 15 [...] Continue Reading »
State Bank of India’s (SBI) home loan portfolio grow by less than 2% in the three months ended June – its lowest sequential, or quarter-on-quarter, growth in five quarters. The portfolio stood close to Rs1,05,000 crore as of June 30, compared with Rs1,02,739 crore as of March 31, according to a senior official at the [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) budget session was committed to Ramky Environ, which manages the Mavallipura dumping yard. Opposition leader MK Gunashekar questioned the mayor that why the ruling party was protecting Ramky’ engineers who were responsible for water and air pollution in the area and surrounding villages. Gunashekar accused Ramky of polluting the [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of Malleshpalya and GM Palya are suffering due to insufficient water supply. They get water once in 10 days and sometimes, a whole month goes by without water supply. Malleshpalya and GM Palya, both located adjacent to CV Raman Nagar in East Bangalore, are not yet included in the Cauvery water supply belt. In [...] Continue Reading »
The nation’s capital has been witnessing severe water scarcity, intense heat and burning greens nowadays. There is an acute shortage of water in Delhi as a result of which green covers are scorching up. Almost 20 per cent of the plants and grass are getting dried up in the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area [...] Continue Reading »
Representatives of the Kochu Veli Janakeeya Samithi said they would stage a sit-in in front of the railway station as the garbage from the city was being used for a platform construction project. The action council formed at Kochuveli in protest against the disposal of garbage at the railway station has decided to block garbage [...] Continue Reading »
Angry residents have blocked the Gurgaon-Delhi Expressway due to power cuts which lasted for more than 10 hours on Tuesday morning. Hundreds of people from several areas of Gurgaon protested against the prolonged power cuts in the range of 12-18 hours on Monday and Tuesday. The agitation, during the peak hours, led to a massive [...] Continue Reading »
