Bombay Informer

The Union Cabinet on Thursday deferred the decision on promulgating an ordinance to clear its highly ambitious Food Security Bill. Full News here – Sify.com

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"Maharashtra is reeling under severe drought crisis. We have outlined an investment of Rs 60,000 crore over the next three years to ensure that Maharashtra is drought free," Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said at the 177th AGM of Bombay Chamber of Commerce here late last evening.  Chavan said that he has discussed the plan with [...]

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As per the rule, every government and semi-government employee belonging to the backward classes should submit their caste certificate for validation to the caste validation committee. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a legislation to set up a long-pending real estate regulator to protect home buyers from unscrupulous developers and builders. A real estate regulator — to be set up in every state — will ensure that… Full News here – The Times of India (Mumbai edition)

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FOLLOWING Bombay High Court order banning disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW) at the Kanjurmarg dumping ground, BMC has decided to approach the state government to find a solution to the problem of lack of landfill sites. Earlier, the partially opened Kanjurmarg dumping ground received 500 metric tonnes of garbage daily. The Mulund dumping ground [...]

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The Maharashtra government has approved release of grant for various schemes of minorities’ development.      Full News here – Mumbai News, News in Mumbai, Mumbai City News | Cities News – Times of India

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Bombay High Court last week turned down petitions questioning the constitutional validity of sections of the Maharashtra Slum Areas (Improvement, Clearance and Redevelopment) Act, 1971 (the Slum Act) that refer to the government’s power to acquire land housing and/or adjoining a slum for redevelopment and compensation for land owners. “Acquisition of lands under the provisions [...]

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The VHP said that the Education Department of the state had committed a blunder by showing the North Eastern state as a part of the territory of China. "Such kind of mistake will not only aggravate the border tension between India and China, but also weaken the international stand as far as the unity and [...]

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The rethink comes after Chief Minister Narendra Modi government came under criticism from right wing forces for its earlier decision to go ahead with the Supreme Court-appointed SIT's recommendation to seek death penalty for Kodnani, Bajrangi and others. Maya Kodnani. File pic The state government had earlier given its consent to file an appeal in [...]

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Says those who are protesting had once wanted the tax. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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MUMBAI: The state government has finally revised development norms and cleared the decks for the redevelopment of 5,000-odd societies in Mhada colonies. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan-led urban development department has issued a notification in this regard. Raising stakes for redevelopment, the new norms offer bigger areas for tenants while linking the developers’ incentives and Mhada’s [...]

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The petitioner claims that state excise minister Ganesh Naik issued an NoC for sale of a 28,010.43 sq m plot in Bhandup when he had no authority to do so. Full News here – Top Headlines

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He alleged that handful of people were misleading the small traders on the newly introduced tax. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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MUMBAI: Bowing to the pressure from local civic bodies, the state government finally reduced the floor space index (FSI) for its ambitious rental housing project. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has now revised the policy and reduced the FSI to three. Local civic corporations in the MMR region complained FSI four would put an unbearable load [...]

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