Track2Realty-Agencies: India will kick-start a number of new infrastructure projects including 8 new airports and two new sea-ports in the coming months to boost sluggish economic growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday, Aug 15.
Track2Realty: The Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal showcased on Saturday, Nov 17, prime urban land under the possession of Punjab Government to 137 international and national Real Estate Developers, who assembled in Mumbai under the aegis of Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India (CREDAI) in a convention organized by them, Punjab land of opportunities.
In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI), MBRGI and Sobha Realty signed a charitable grant agreement for the establishment of an endowment university in Dubai, as part of the Mothers’ Endowment campaign, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to honour mothers by establishing an AED 1 billion endowment fund supporting the education of millions around the world.
Ever since the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the demonetisation, the buzz word vis-à-vis the real estate market has been the Benami Transactions. The government has time and again reiterated its commitment to hit out at the benami properties after the demonetisation. It is hence epxected that the Union Budget 2017-18 would have some more concrete road map and suggest financial curbs on the benami transactions.
Track2Realty: The year 2014 has been quite fruitful for the real estate sector in terms of business sentiment, although the real effect of many of the policies and amendments announced in 2014 will take effect only in 2015. Starting from Union Budget FY2014-15, where affordable housing was considered on par with infrastructure, to relaxation of rigidities in the Land Acquisition and Real Estate Regulatory Bill, India’s new Prime Minister has been offering the India real estate sector consistent doses of energy.
Track2Realty: Over the past couple of months, no other Indian state has been talked about as much in the Indian media as Gujarat. Be it about Narendra Modi, former Chief Minister of Gujarat who is now Prime Minister of the nation or the growth model of the state.
Track2Realty: The alarm on a tough upcoming budget was sounded when the newly elected Prime Minister said that “time has come to take tough decisions in the interest of the nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking all due measures towards his vision of a ‘Shresht Bharat’, amidst some calibrated tough measures.
Launching its multi-pronged strategy to focus attention on the real estate industry’s unending series of problems, CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India) has decided to send an ‘SOS’ to the Prime Minister and planned for a nationwide developers strike to sensitize the policy makers.
Hiranandanis have roped in Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and a Queen’s Counsel (QC), as an arbitrator for a Rs 1,400-crore dispute in the family. The other arbitrators are another QC and former Delhi High Court Chief Justice A P Shah. The panel is expected to solve by June the scrap between brother and sister, who are both high-fliers in their own right.
Prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday, July 24, announced setting up of an independent environment regulator that would lead to a complete change in the process of granting environment clearances.