Speakers at a roundtable yesterday called upon the government to prepare special housing policy for the 45 million people living in the coastal areas where they are most vulnerable in case of national disaster.

The lands, on which Bashundhara Group Chief Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam promised two football stadiums for Bangladesh Football Federation, are mostly part of protected wetlands and flood flow zones, which cannot be legally used for building anything on them, according to Rajuk sources.

CHANDIGARH: Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat Harmohan Dhawan on Monday asked how without a proper transfer policy could Union Minister of State for Finance Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Congress candidate for the seat, promise the residents another storey whereas they

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Considering the inconvenience caused to the residents of the area, President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday ordered the relevant officials to stop the construction of the 7.5 km stretch of the roadway between Kirulapone and Ratmalana Maliban Junction, with immediate effect.

Housing finance options for low-salary earners and the self-employed poor in India are severely limited and have significantly affected their housing conditions. A recent session of the governing council of UN-HABITAT focussed on this theme and emphasised the need to expand financing options.

The Punjab government is considering to move a bill in the provincial assembly of Punjab to discourage setting up of housing schemes at cultivable land.

The country, at present, is facing a shortfall of 6 million housing units and in order to bridge this gap the government needs to provide adequate funding for House Building Finance Corporation (HBFC), Vice chairman, standing committee on housing and construction industry of FPCCI, Saleem Kassim Patel said.

Five months after the Tatas shifted their small car project from West Bengal, the group is set to launch a new project in the state from the Tata Housing stable.