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In the capital of Gujarat, over 60 vendors associated with the Ahmedabad metro project are sitting on a ‘dharna’ in Gandhinagar for protesting against non-payment of dues of about Rs 70 crore.These vendors state that their dues are pending since last six months. Jatin Bhayani, chairman of MEGA Vendor Welfare Association which was formed recently [...] Continue Reading »
The parliamentary panel says that the law should be applicable on the constructions built on 100 sq m area or more. The Standing Committee says that the small projects has been removed from the purview of the Bill where the area of land is less than 1000 sq m or where a building does not [...] Continue Reading »
Financial assistance of Central government for the Jaipur Metro Phase-I project might not be taken by the state government. “The total project cost for Phase-I is Rs 3,149 crore said a senior official source. The previous state government had sanctioned Rs 1,802. More funds might not be required as recently, the BJP-led government, too, has [...] Continue Reading »
It could end up embarrassing the congress party that the company in which Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra has shares earns huge profit from purchasing land at minimum prices and selling these at high rates. After BJP MP from Bikaner Arjun Meghwal demanded investigation of the irregularities committed in the land deals, the [...] Continue Reading »
A nine member inter- departmental high powered project monitoring committee has been constituted by the state IT (information technology) department in a bid to expedite the completion of Info-valley project. Spread over 600 acres of land, the Info-Valley, the second IT Park in the city, has the development on slow lane, is. On the outskirts [...] Continue Reading »
On Monday Dushyant Dave Senior Supreme Court advocate caused a stir in the Supreme Court when he referred to what he described as the phenomena of bench hunting in the top court. Dave to voice his concerns used the occasion of mentioning time — usually reserved for urgent out-of-turn cases. He was appearing before a [...] Continue Reading »
The Bombay High Court rejected Maharashtra Chief Minister’s discretionary housing quota citing that the allotments of flats in this quota were illegal. The court added all the policies of the state government regarding this quota are not up to the mark. The court stopped the state government from allotting the 2 percent of the Maharashtra [...] Continue Reading »
Recently, Hyderabad district administration has taken back 3.31 acres of prime government land in Jubilee Hills allotted to Anand Cine Services, which is an outdoor film unit ,because the management failed to utilise it for the purpose it was assigned. The land which is resumed is expected to be worth nearly Rs 100 crore. In [...] Continue Reading »
The state government’s proposal of four-laning of the 220-km National Highway No. 20 (Pathankot-Mandi) has been once again rejected by the Ministry of Surface and Transport. The National Highways Authority of India had not included this important road project in its plan outlay for 2014-15, in the absence of political will as per the official [...] Continue Reading »
Illegal mining renewal in Tauru and Nuh has started ringing alarm bells in the region. Environment activists blamed the state government and local administration on Monday, for their disappointment to act inspite of Supreme Court orders of ban on such activities and pressurized them to take the case to the apex court or the National [...] Continue Reading »
