Delhi/NCR Home buyers in Noida Extension were dealt a double whammy on Tuesday. While their agony is going to get prolonged as hearing of petitions filed by villagers in the Allahabad High Court has been deferred, they may soon have to shell out additional...

Delhi/NCR Faced with the prospect of agitating farmers derailing housing projects across Noida, Noida Extension and Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district, the UP government on Tuesday decided to accept their demand for regularization of inhabited...

Delhi/NCR Be ready to pay more in EMIs. Lending rates will go up in all segments, including home and car loan, after RBI hiked the key rates again on Tuesday. The central bank has increased the repo and reverse repo rates 50 basis point each. “We are...

Property prices are expected to correct around 20% as realty developers may not be able to hold on to the current prices following the Reserve Bank of India’s liquidity tightening move to increase repo and reverse repo rates by 50 basis points (bps) each....

Mumbai When Ranjith Thomas, a finance executive, heard the RBI had hiked interest rates, his heart sank. His monthly outgoings for the Rs 20 lakh loan he had taken last year had just gone up from approximately Rs 16,000 to Rs 19,000. “I don’t have vices....

Ahmedabad If you want to witness the brashness with which laws are flouted with impunity visit Lakhia ni Pol in Khadia area in the walled city. Despite several notices issued by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) to demolish an illegal building,...

Chennai The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has decided to conduct a re-survey of the 15.67 acres of land it wanted the state government to acquire from a neighbourhood in Kolapakkam near Porur. Validating residents’ fears that the AAI is asking for...

Chennai Japanese engineering services company JGC Corporation, Mizuho Bank and Ascendas, a business space developer, have teamed up to develop a township near Mahabalipuram spread over 1,450 acres targeted at Japanese companies. The Omega project will...

Chennai The Chennai Corporation on Friday sealed three under-construction buildings at Choolai, in the Nungambakkam zone, for violating development control rules. This is the first time the corporation has acted against such structures. Earlier, the Chennai...

Hyderabad Allegedly under pressure from powerful politicians, chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Tuesday approved a controversial decision to change land use of a large chunk of land in Ranga Reddy district falling under the environmentally sensitive...