Dumping of construction waste at unauthorised places will soon invite a fine of Rs 1,500. This was decided during a review meeting of the Malba Bylaws sub-committee held on Wednesday.

External lenders may not find low-income or affordable housing attractive, due to the low profit margins and high risk

A proposal has been mooted for all external commercial borrowing (ECB) for affordable housing to be routed through the National Housing Bank (NHB), mooted by the latter. Many in the real estate sector are sceptical about the practicality of the Budget proposal on ECB for this segment.

The Yashoram Infra Developers Private Limited has informed the Kerala High Court that the implementation of the proposed sky city project would not cause any damage to coastal ecosystems or the backwater system in the city.

In an affidavit, the company said that no reclamation of backwaters or wetland was needed. The affidavit said that there was no violation of Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2000. Sky city project envisaged construction of two flyovers over the Chilavanoor backwaters.

The European Union (EU) has provided Rs 210 million to implement the project titled "Vertical Shaft Brick Kiln and other Sustainable Construction Practices.

The Madras High Court has directed the Director of Indian Institute of Technology-Madras to nominate three experts who should survey the Vridhachalam-Ulundurpet-Villupuram Road and submit a report on the quality of the work completed by contractors till date. Till the report is submitted, the sum should not be disbursed to the contractors.

The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has issued a new set of rules for building high rises. The guidelines relate to height of buildings, adequacy of fire-fighting facilities, width of the road and distance from the fire station, among other requirements.

This is the first time the ministry has come up with such guidelines linked to skyscrapers.

Non allocation of funds and legal complexities have either stalled or slowed down two projects for saving the Buriganga River from land grabbers or restoring stretches of it through dredging, offic

GUWAHATI: The Brihattar Guwahati Unnayan Samiti Samuhar Aikya Mancha alleged that the provisions of the Guwahati Waterbodies (Preservation and Conservation) Act, 2008 has been flouted by the district administration.

The Mancha said that a part of the waterbody at the Bunda village in Beltola Mauja under the Chandrapur Revenue Circle had been allegedly handed over to the Maria Public School in 2002 by the district administration, which was a violation of the Guwahati Waterbodies (Preservation and Conservation) Act, 2008. Again in 2007, another portion of the waterbody had also been handed over to the same school.

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined the managing director of a housing company Tk 22 lakh for cutting hills to develop housing projects in Sylhet.

Pakistan’s environment protection agency has suddenly gone soft on the stone crushers in the Margalla Hills, allowing them to go on denuding the hills, but without degrading the environment.