Portugal ends Golden Visas, curtails Airbnb rentals to address housing crisisPortugal's golden visa programme, which offers EU passports to non-EU nationals in return for investments including in real estate and has ...
17 Feb, 2023, 10.25 AM IST
Model Tenancy Act: Implications and benefits for India's rental housing"We have a lot of demand for housing and we have availability of housing," said Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri to...
03 Jun, 2021, 02.08 PM IST
Model Tenancy Act explained by Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh PuriMinister of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri discusses the merits and challenges of the Model Tenancy Act for rental housing in...
03 Jun, 2021, 12.59 PM IST
Govt approves Model Tenancy Act; to enable setting up of district-wise rent courts, tribunalsWith this, civil courts have been barred from entertaining any suit or proceeding related to the provisions of this Act. By formalising all...
02 Jun, 2021, 06.40 PM IST
Thousands leave Bengaluru ahead of lockdown, heightening risk of Covid surge in villagesThe chief minister had, last week, appealed to people not to leave Bengaluru as rural areas of the State are safe with fewer cases, and any...
13 Jul, 2020, 09.23 PM IST
Godrej Properties buys 82 acre land near Bengaluru city for Rs 135 cr from group firmIn a regulatory filing, Godrej Agrovet has informed that it has entered into a sale deed with Godrej Properties Ltd for the transfer by way...
28 Mar, 2020, 02.12 PM IST
Cooperative banks to come under RBI watchRBI will have the right to supersede the management of a cooperative bank in case of governance failure.
06 Feb, 2020, 08.33 AM IST
Karnataka: Realtors rule politics in Bengaluru ruralWith skyrocketing land value, real estate barons mushroomed. Having attained wealth, they sought influence. When influence was not enough, ...
12 Apr, 2018, 10.11 AM IST
Hope in loan card: Loan eligibility cards for tenant farmers may be national solution to farmer distressMillions of tenant farmers don’t have access to zero interest crop loans or relief packages. Loan eligibility cards for tenant farmers — is...
09 Sep, 2015, 02.04 PM IST
Narendra Modi govt trying to dilute MGNREGA: CPI(M)CPI(M) accused the govt of seeking to dilute or do away with social security issues, saying the dreams of "good days" have been converted i...
04 Jul, 2014, 05.42 PM IST
Centre won’t push states for reducing land ceilingsGovernment will not push states to lower agricultural land ceiling under proposed National Land Reform Policy, heavy industries minister Pr...
20 Aug, 2013, 05.01 AM IST
- PM-led National Land Reforms Panel has never met since its formation
The council, constituted after agitations by landless villagers and tribals, is yet to fix a date since it put off its first scheduled meet...
09 Jun, 2012, 02.27 AM IST
- CPI-M slams government on farmers' suicide
Slamming the government over the issue of farmers' suicide, CPI-M said in the Rajya Sabha that West Bengal too was witnessing such incident...
03 May, 2012, 02.41 PM IST
Declining farm rentals worry rural landlordsThe decline in rents is in stark contrast to the significant appreciation in the capital cost of farmland across the country.
07 Feb, 2012, 08.58 AM IST
- China wants farm lands out of brick and mortar plans
China stressed on Thursday that farmland had to be kept available for cultivation instead of being gobbled up by construction as China’s ra...
11 Jan, 2008, 01.36 AM IST
- The emerging agrarian crisis
I was employed as an agricultural labour with the local landlord in the village when I was just 15,” said the old man, at least 70 now.
18 May, 2007, 02.41 AM IST
- States must redraw master plans for SEZs
States will have to amend their respective master plans to allow SEZs to take off.
27 Mar, 2007, 01.43 AM IST