2022-08-26
Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) Launching a drive against people violating building permission norms and property taxes for that sealed nearly a dozen commercial establishments. Three establishments of Bicholi Mardana area including two food outlets and an automobile service station were sealed for operating without completion certificates.
2022-08-25
MUMBAI: A special PMLA court discharged Omkar Group promoters Babulal Varma and Kamalkishore Gupta from a money laundering case. Earlier this month, the accused moved discharge pleas before the special PMLA court through their advocates Vijay Aggarwal and Rahul Agarwal.
2022-08-25
The Central Ground Water Authority (CGWA) has issued a public notice, directing old and new housing societies, and residential apartments in urban areas to register their groundwater withdrawal by September-end. The notice stated that strict action would be initiated against those not registering with CGWA. The Maharashtra State Housing Federation said its members were willing to share information on the groundwater use but refused to pay the registration fee of Rs10,000 per unit for fresh permission to withdraw the same, as demanded by the Central Ground Water Authority in a public notice.
2022-08-25
Municipal commissioner Vikram Kumar said citizens who have received SMSs to make additional payments towards property tax should not pay the amount, as the text messages were inadvertently sent due to some technical errors. Nearly 60,000 property owners across the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits had received such messages from the civic body.
2022-08-25
Indore district administration, in Record of Rights (ROR) under Swamitva Scheme, has started compiling a data of ‘original owners’ of a land in as many as 400 villages to provide the occupant of the properties its legal ownership. In the remaining 321 villages, the administration is facing some technical issues or the same have been listed in the ‘abandoned’ category in the existing records.
2022-08-25
Due to alleged inferior quality of works done by Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA), some 320 families residing in flats constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) are facing rainwater seepage, electric shocks and other problems within a year of taking possession. Under PMAY, NMRDA had constructed 942 flats on khasra no. 62 under mouza Tarodi. There are 48 wings with G+4 floors each. NMRDA had handed over possession of 450 flats, of which 320 are occupied.
2022-08-25
Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj Kapil Moreshwar Patil ordered the release of pending amount of Rs 35.28 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Rural) to Punjab. The directions came after Punjab Rural Development Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal brought to the knowledge of Patil the pending funds under the scheme. Patil ordered the release of Rs 35.28 crore for building 10,654 new houses and completing 7,293 under-construction houses in Punjab.
2022-08-25
The Supreme Court held that Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 does not have retrospective application and the authorities cannot initiate or continue criminal prosecution or confiscation proceedings for transactions entered into prior to the coming into force of the legislation. The top court said the continued presence of an unconstitutional law on the statute book does not prevent it from holding that such unconstitutional laws cannot enure to the benefit of or be utilised to retroactively amend laws to cure existing constitutional defects.
2022-08-25
Infosys Technologies has picked up about 5 lakh sq ft office space in Bengaluru on lease to expand its operation in one of the largest office lease deals in the city in recent times. The software major will be paying a rental of around ₹51 per sq ft. The lease term has a five-year lock-in period with a 15-year lease. The company plans to set up 1,000-seat offices across Kolkata, Nagpur, Coimbator, Vizag and Noida. The tech major added 21,171 employees during the first quarter of 2022-23.
2022-08-24
A Delhi court has denied bail to businessman Ajay Ramesh Nawandar in a Rs 34,615 crore bank fraud case involving Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), on account of his possible influence on both evidence and witnesses. The court held that the accused was prima facie complicit at some stage in the diversion of the "humongous funds" originating from the loans. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had earlier conducted searches at Nawandar's premises and recovered a large collection of uber-luxury watches worth crores of rupees, including Rolex Oyster Perpetual, Cartier, Omega, and Hublot, and two paintings worth Rs 33 crore, the officials said.
