MUMBAI: The state government and City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), which are developing the international airport at Navi Mumbai, have firmly refused to allow residential buildings near the site.

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Bangalore: People made homeless by north Karnataka

THE Madras High Court has rejected a plea to restrain the TN Slum Clearance Board and other authorities from carrying out any reclamation and/or construction activity at Okkiyam-Thoraipakkam village and to restore the land to its original state.

Mumbai: Doctors across the city agree that construction work is the chief cause of the current bout of malaria in the city.

In June this year, over 3,500 patients with malaria were admitted to hospitals, while over 1,250 have been hospitalised since July. Five patients have succumbed to the mosquito-borne menace so far.

Mumbai: The state government may make it mandatory to install noise barriers at construction sites, minister of state for urban development Bhaskar Jadhav informed the legislative council on Wednesday.

Vijayawada, June 29: As part of the mega housing project under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the Vijayawada municipal corporation (VMC) will construct 3,072 G+3 units in Ajit Singh Nagar and Kabela colonies, each unit at a cost of Rs 2.50 lakh.

Last week

Activists of the Villagers Group of Goa (VGG) on Saturday visited various controversial real estate projects at Sancoale on the occasion of World Environment Day.
The VGG activists first proceeded to a hotel project along the NH-17B at Upasanagar that is under construction and later went near the BITS Pillani complex, where private forest land has been converted to accommodate a hotel project.