Annoyed with the haphazard dumping of soil by the workers of the Infra Project Pvt Ltd, the company involved in the construction of the Shillong by-pass on their cultivable land,the farmers of Dien

International airport at Devanahalli triggers real estate boom

The State Cabinet on Thursday decided to withdraw a 2006-notification which disallowed
conversion of agricultural land for residential and commercial activities in the towns of Sathanur in Kanakapura taluk, Ramanagara, Solur in Magadi taluk and Nandagudi in Hoskote taluk.

AHMEDABAD: A division bench of the Gujarat high court refused to direct the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to allow another environment impact and risk assessment study to develop

India Inc has generally welcomed the Land Acquisition Bill cleared by the Cabinet on Monday and endorsed its objective of ensuring reasonable compensation to land owners who sell their land to the industry. But corporates have also expressed concern over the likely burden of procedures and the high cost of the relief and rehabilitation (R&R) policy which could finally lie on the industry.

80% local manpower, 15 Enggs from Jammu engaged
JAMMU: In a major step aimed at providing safest road link in the landslides prone areas of the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway 1A, the work on first section of the country’s longest road tunnel between Chenani and Nashri was started today.

Today, the water structure is invariable common property, which can be taken apart
We were standing at the edge of what looked like a swamp — there were grass, pools and streams. On one side there was land heavily barricaded with high walls, barbed wires and armed security. A board read: East Coast Energy, Kakarapalli. A bloody battle had taken place in this village in Andhra Pradesh a few months ago. People protesting against the takeover of their wetland were shot at and three of them lost their lives. Now the site of the 2,640 Mw thermal power plant is under siege — locked and in court.

The Rajasthan Government's urban bodies signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Ircon International Limited, a railway undertaking, for construction of 12 railway over-bridges and under-bridges across the State here over the weekend.

The Karnataka Slum Development Board (KSDB) is using monolithic concrete structures for its housing project for slum dwellers here, saving money and time in the construction process.

The decision of the State government to promulgate an ordinance to regulate stone-crushing units in Karnataka is likely to hit the existing operators really hard.

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