Mumbai Slumdwellers and residents of housing societies cannot be on an equal footing, the high court has ruled. A division bench of Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud and Justice Anoop Mohta dismissed a petition filed by some slumdwellers residing on a prime...

Bangalore Observing that the government has failed its own agency BDA, the Karnataka high court on Wednesday quashed acquisition of land for J P Nagar VIII phase layout in and around Kothanur in Uttarahalli hobli. “It is an illusion on the part of the...

Bangalore The land at Rachenahalli in Bangalore, which landed CM BS Yeddyurappa in trouble, was denotified BDA land. The one-acre plot, which was sold to a mining company by the CM’s family for a whopping Rs 20 crore, was purchased for a meagre Rs 40...

Chennai The first bowstring girder flyover in the suburbs, in Eshwari Nagar of Pallavaram, is expected to be completed by January next year. The under-construction road overbridge (ROB) to replace the railway level crossing in Eshwari Nagar on the Old...

Chennai Ever since the National Housing Bank (NHB) started preparing residex — an index for tracking the prices of residential properties — in 2007, Chennai has been in the news for steep increase in residential prices. Over the past four years, housing...

Kolkata NTPC has conveyed to the state government that it is ready to buy land directly for the proposed super critical power project in Katwa. Chairman of the central power utility Arup Roy Choudhury said that it is keen to go ahead with the project...

Pune The city is set to be connected with the Dighi seaport in Raigad district as part of the proposed $90 billion Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor. Pune district collector Vikas Deshmukh said, “The Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor was proposed for setting...

Cooperative housing societies in Noida were dealt a major blow on Wednesday, as Supreme Court ordered individual registration of their flats as per the prevailing circle rates. According to the Uttar Pradesh stamp department, the judgment would affect...

Hyderabad The issue of encroachments in the Secunderabad Cantonment jurisdiction area has got serious enough that it was discussed at a meeting between defence officials and director-general of police V Dinesh Reddy on Wednesday. The defence officials...

Delhi/NCR With just 17 days in hand to resolve the Noida Extension crisis, Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) on Wednesday invited farmers of the denotified Patwari village for talks on all contentious issues. At 589 hectares, Patwari...