Thursday 19 November '09
Five months ago Shruti Kamble was left bedridden as she suffered severe back injuries after a fall from the Andheri railway bridge.Monday 16 November '09
A central committee set up to review proposed amendments to the Environment Impact Assessment notification of 2006 has struck down a proposal to dilute norms to benefit the real estate sector.Tuesday
3 November '09Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd has requested the state government to grant a Floor Space Index of 4...Tuesday
3 November '09Each time the development-versus-slums debate plays out in his constituency, three-time MLA and minister Naseem Khan has sided with the latter.Friday
30 October '09The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has requested the state government to grant it powers and relaxations on par with the Slum Rehabilitation Authority to expedite its rental housing projects.Thursday
29 October '09London, Shanghai and several other international cities have had it for long; closer home, Delhi will have one before the Commonwealth Games. Next, Mumbai will follow with a dedicated Metro service to its international airport.Thursday
29 October '09During his Mithibai College years, Krishna Hegde won a spate of inter-collegiate fashion shows while dabbling in his family’s garments business.Monday
26 October '09The voting pattern in an overwhelming majority of Mumbai’s 36 Assembly seats has thrown up an interesting fact.Thursday
22 October '09The city’s archetypal low-cost housing model, its BDD chawls, are set to give way to larger apartments that will be built under either of the two recent redevelopment policies of the state government...Tuesday
20 October '09A proposal by Dynamix Balwas Group at Turf Estate in Mahalaxmi has become the first to get government clearance under the cluster development policy.Tuesday
13 October '09Half the city’s 27 recontesting MLAs have criminal charges against them. Mumbai Votes, an online resource that tracks elected representatives, has counted 13 with such cases.Monday
12 October '09Mumbai's MLAs have, on an average, grown richer by a mind-boggling 400 per cent over the last five years.Tuesday
29 September '09In Bandra West, the Assembly poll candidates know that they can ignore neither the active residents’ groups nor the sizeable majority of slum residents.Friday
25 September '09The proposed Metro station near Nanavati Hospital, part of a typically high-traffic-density route, has been chosen for a pilot study on the implications of granting additional built-up rights on land along the Metro routes.Tuesday
22 September '09Developers who have been hiking rates of apartments hoping to cash in on the demand have lost out — as far as sale in the second quarter of 2009 is concerne— to those who held on to reasonable prices.Wednesday
16 September '09In a fresh lease of life for the city’s architectural history, the state government has initiated the much-delayed move to notify a revised heritage list for Mumbai.Friday
11 September '09Heritage structures listed as Grade-III can now be redeveloped if a slum scheme demands it, following a dilution of the norms for preservation of less prominent heritage buildings and precincts.Tuesday
8 September '09Two months after plans for four skywalks in the vicinity of heritage structures in South Mumbai were scrapped, the Practicing Engineers Architects, and Town Planners Association has submitted an alternative design, proposing roofless, elevated walkways instead.Monday
31 August '09The 39-acre expanse where the Beggars Home is located in Chembur is the latest in a series of government properties being handed over for redevelopment to private developers in the run-up to the Assembly elections.Thursday
27 August '09Housing societies will have to do a lot of paperwork, some of it allegedly unnecessary, before they get a conveyance deed along with redevelopment rights, rights to open spaces or exploit any additional construction rights.Tuesday
25 August '09In what could be the largest building redevelopment plan in Mumbai, the state government has finalised bids for its ambitious project on the 95.80-acre Bandra Government Colony...Friday
21 August '09Motorists who line up their vehicles below flyovers can no longer do so. The state urban development department on Thursday issued orders to all planning authorities in the state to ban parking below flyovers with immediate effect.Thursday
20 August '09The Taj Group has proposed to rebuild Searock Hotel at Bandra Bandstand and make it two-and-a-half times taller.Thursday
20 August '09The National Textile Corporation’s decision to put Finlay Mills to tender for the fourth time is likely to set back its plans to launch the second phase of its auctions...Tuesday
18 August '09Responding to a letter from the registrar general (Personnel and Protocol), Bombay High Court, the state government has ordered an inquiry into sub-standard construction work in the Maharashtra Judicial Academy building at Uttan inaugurated by President Pratibha Patil on June 27.
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