Bankers, the frontline warriors in India’s coming fintech revolutionA number of senior bankers, armed with intimate understanding of strengths and weaknesses of traditional banking, are breaking new ground i...
24 Jun, 2018, 07.25 AM IST
Relaxed rules opening up demand in the housing sector for startupsThe government had also extended the benefits of the interest subsidy up to Rs 2.6 lakh on home loans under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana ...
13 Feb, 2018, 08.33 AM IST
Rice farming in India much older than thought: StudyThe location of the Indus in a part of the world that received both summer and winter rains may have encouraged the development of seasonal...
21 Nov, 2016, 01.31 PM IST
NHB gives nod to 6 new entities to become housing finance companiesEarlier this week, RBI allowed banks to give home loans up to 90 per cent of the value of the property that cost below Rs 30 lakh.
10 Oct, 2015, 04.48 PM IST
- Activists plan stir against ULCRA repeal
The Maharashtra government may have scrapped the Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act (ULCRA), but the struggle to save the outlived legis...
06 Dec, 2007, 01.53 AM IST
- Political consensus eludes ULCRA repeal
Despite being in the pipeline for around two years, the government has not still been able to build a political consensus on the repeal of ...
05 Nov, 2007, 03.51 AM IST
- JD(S) leader challenges Maharashtra CM on land act
Veteran Janata Dal (Secular) leader PB Samant has dared Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh to publicly explain the benefits, if any, of repea...
12 Oct, 2007, 03.39 AM IST
- Little time left for govt to attach surplus land
The Maharashtra government may go on a land acquisition spree. In the next four months, the state government is likely to go all out to imp...
18 Dec, 2006, 03.23 AM IST
- There's more to housing than land acquisition
Mere acquisition of a large piece of land under the urban land ceiling & regulation act (ULCRA) may not be the solution to Mumbai’s housing...
22 Sep, 2006, 03.36 AM IST