UK wakes up to caste bias

Tuesday 26 March '13

House of Lords acknowledges it, over to Commons to clear legislation to protect Indian diaspora.

UK wakes up to caste bias

Tuesday 26 March '13

House of Lords acknowledges it, over to Commons to clear legislation to protect Indian diaspora

Unesco awards heritage tag to group of Tardeo buildings

Wednesday 29 August '12

A little-known enclave of five quaint buildings at Tardeo, housing tenants from the Parsi community for over a century now, has won a prestigious heritage tag for its conservation efforts.

Heritage panel wants its screen on Grade III structures, precincts

Monday 27 August '12

To save the heritage fabric of the city from the onslaught of reckless redevelopment, the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) will take up the issue of bringing heritage precincts and Grade ...

Despite lull in sales, property prices rise manifold in micro-markets

Wednesday 22 August '12

The latest data from National Housing Bank (NHB) shows a manifold increase in housing prices in most micro-markets across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) with rates peaking to an all-time high de...

Finally, revised heritage list out

Monday 20 August '12

Four years after an exhaustive exercise was carried out to revise Mumbai''s heritage list to include 948 monuments, structures and precincts to the existing 588 sites, the BMC has finally published th...

BMC to revive housing project for conservancy workers

Thursday 16 August '12

After a four-year delay, the project to get one-room tenements constructed to house conservancy workers is back on track, with the civic administration planning to move ahead with it.

Buyers miffed as MHADA hikes price of Powai flats by 43%

Thursday 9 August '12

Buyers of the public housing project in Powai were in for a rude shock recently when the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority slapped them with notices informing them of a 43 per cent hi...

35% gap in price of sold, unsold homes: Hint on correction required

Tuesday 31 July '12

While most developers continue to hold on to their sky-high rates, the discrepancy in the average price of sold and unsold residential stock in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) is an indication of...

Violations in Mumbai slum rehab plan

Monday 23 July '12

An ambitious project involving construction of swanky sea-view high-rises on prime Mumbai land after razing Mahatma Phule Colony, a slum sprawl at Nariman Point, is under scanner for violation of buil...

Violations in Mumbai slum rehab plan

Monday 23 July '12

The plot is located between the Manora hostel for MLAs and the Arabian sea

Slowdown hits Mumbai''s real estate market, 80,000 units unsold

Friday 20 July '12

The slowdown has largely hit the luxury segment.

Flats don''t sell but costly as ever

Friday 20 July '12

While the unsold residential stock in Mumbai has jumped dramatically, developers have stayed away from cutting prices in the low and medium segments of the housing market.

Few takers for diamond bourse in BKC as traders stick to Opera House bylanes

Tuesday 10 July '12

A year after the blast that claimed 10 lives and injured several others at Opera House, the nerve-centre of country''s $23 billion cut and polished diamond exports industry, the trade has still not sh...

MTSU brings out report on loss-making AC bus routes

Thursday 5 July '12

The Mumbai Transformation Support Unit (MTSU) has prepared a preliminary report on rationalisation of its 230 air-conditioned buses running on 28 existing loss-making routes in Mumbai.

39 Mumbai housing plots given to trusts, politicians and builders to be taken back

Friday 29 June '12

In April 2004, Bombay High Court stopped the preferential allotment of land meant for public housing and amenities.

MHADA lottery: Nearly 7,000 mill workers finally get homes

Friday 29 June '12

Three decades after the debilitating strike that struck at the very fabric of the Mumbai textile industry, 6,925 of the 1.5 lakh retrenched mill workers finally got their coveted houses in Mumbai on T...

Residential realty rates rise despite slackening sales

Wednesday 27 June '12

Despite the slackening sales in Mumbai''s property market, data shows a steady hike in residential prices throughout the city.

Securitymen led Pawar to safety but left visitors to fend for themselves

Friday 22 June '12

Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was escorted away by his security within minutes of the fire breaking out, while 50-60 others in the office and waiting room had to stumble through thick smoke and str...

Mamata clout wanes, Cong CMs press for retail FDI

Sunday 17 June '12

Maha CM Chavan said the central government must not allow any one state to veto the proposal.

Post-1947, land reclamation tripled in Mumbai: Study

Monday 11 June '12

A study tracing the history of reclamation in Mumbai has shown that over the past 64 years since Independence, Mumbai has seen thrice as much reclamation as was carried out over 250 years of colonial ...

Three Maharashtra CMs doled out houses to kin, aides and journalists

Sunday 10 June '12

Records show that more than half 221 apartments given away between 2003 and 2010 were HIG apartments.

3 Maharashtra CMs used their quota to give houses to kin, aides and journalists

Saturday 9 June '12

Between 2003, 2010, Sushil Shinde, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Ashok Chavan gave away 221 apartments.

Only a third of mill workers eligible for MHADA lottery now

Wednesday 6 June '12

The 1.48 lakh mill workers'' families, who have been eagerly awaiting the draw of lots for their long-promised flats in Mumbai, may have to wait much longer than expected.