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"Signal Shala": Mumbai flyover school offers big lifeline to street childrenA unique school operating from shipping containers in Mumbai provides education to children from marginalised communities. Many of these ch...- West Bengal will work with Centre to ensure state receives all benefits of double-engine govt: CM Suvendu AdhikariWest Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari pledged close collaboration with the Centre to secure benefits of a 'double-engine government' ...
- Who gets what in Vijay’s Tamil Nadu Cabinet as Congress, VCK, IUML join power tableTamil Nadu's political landscape has shifted with Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay forming a 35-member coalition ministry. This new government...
- Tamil Nadu Cabinet Expansion: CM Vijay adds 23 more ministers to TVK-led govt, shuffles some portfoliosT.N. Cabinet Expansion Updates: Tamil Nadu's new government has expanded its cabinet. Twenty-three more MLAs joined the State Cabinet. This...
- Care economy in India: EAC-PM working paper lays out a roadmapThe paper, Re-imagining the Care Economy: From Private Burden to Social and Economic Infrastructure and co-authored by Shamika Ravi, member...
- Why is the 2026 Social Security 2.8% COLA failing against 3.3% inflation? Is your retirement check shrinking?Social Security COLA 2026 Inflation Gap: Why 2.8% Increase Trails 3.3% Senior Inflation. The 2.8% Social Security COLA for 2026 is failing....
- Quote of the day by American social reformer Jacob Riis on how to achieve big things in life: ‘When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that last blow that did it but all that had gone before.’Jacob Riis, a pioneering journalist and photographer, exposed the harsh realities of late 19th-century urban poverty through his powerful s...
- Private players to boost government’s housing scheme under PMAY initiativeWith the government granting infrastructure status to affordable housing in Budget 2017-18, the private players have started showing intere...
- Government sanctions 1 lakh houses worth Rs 4,200 crore for urban poorIn the latest round of sanctions, BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh got the highest number of 57,131 houses followed by Tamil Nadu, where 24,576 aff...
- Gujarat only state to notify the Real Estate ActThe HUPA secretary has written at least three letters to chief secretaries of state governments to push the notification of rules.
- National Remote Sensing Center to assist Centre in 'housing for all' missionHousing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministry joined hands with NRSC for use of latest technologies in its 'Housing For All' urban mission.
- Germany to partner in developing 3 smart citiesGermany agreed to partner with India in developing three smart cities and a six-member joint committee has been set up in this regard.
- Venkaiah Naidu asks states to address challenges in urban governance"I am not targeting any particular ULB or state because situation is same in more or less everywhere. There are ULBs controlled by BJP also...
- Housing and Urban Development Development Corporation pays Rs 100 crore dividend for FY'14HUDCO, a financing arm, posted profit after tax of Rs 726.34 crore for 2013-14 as against Rs 700.56 crore during the previous fiscal.
- Canada offers to partner India in 'housing for all'The offer was made by visiting Canadian Minister of International Trade Ed Fast during his meeting with Venkaiah Naidu.
- PM Jan Dhan Yojana to boost "housing for all" programme: GS SandhuThe 'Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojna', to be launched on August 28, will provide a vital missing link in achieving the objective of "Housing ...
- HUDCO declares dividend of Rs 150 croreHUDCO today declared a dividend of Rs 150 crore, its highest collection so far, to the Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministry.
- Centre to come up with NULM policy soon: Ajay MakenThe Central Government would soon come up with a new policy of National Urban Livelihood Mission (NULM) to alleviate poverty in urban areas...
- Housing subsidy scheme for urban poor revisedWith the aim of a slum-free India, government has increased the loan amount to Rs 5 lakh for construction of houses in urban areas under th...
- Pre-Budget meetings on housing shortageGovernment has held pre-Budget meetings with various chambers and stakeholders recently.
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