Category «Features»

Navi Mumbai – A Success Story Of Sustainable Urbanization

Subhankar Mitra, Local Director – Strategic Consulting, JLL India   The idea of creating a new city as a counter magnet to Mumbai was originally envisaged in the Regional Plan of Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) in 1965. The actual planning process of this new city began in 1971 after the formation of CIDCO, a Government-owned …

Is Your Home Safe From Earthquakes? 

Kishor Pate, CMD – Amit Enterprises Housing Ltd.   The Indian subcontinent has always been prone to earthquakes. However, it is only the recent earthquakes in Nepal which have made home owners and prospective buyers wonder about the earthquake resistance factor in Indian real estate. Two quakes, a week apart, ripped the beautiful mountainous country …

INCREASED SERVICE TAX TO DENT REAL ESTATE SECTOR

Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley had announced changes in the service tax structure in the Budget 2015 – 16. The new service tax would now be applicable commencing 1st June, 2015. Recently, the finance minister declared that the new Service Tax Rate would be increased to 14% from the existing 12.36% with effect from 1st June …

High time to take call on Euthanasia: Anuja Kapur

Aruna Shanbaug lay in near 42 years in vegetative state in KEM hospital where she worked as a Nurse and where she was physically assaulted and brutally beaten by another employee of the Hospital. In the Monday morning around 8.30 a.m doctors of KEM hospital declared Aruna Shanbaug dead after a bout of pneumonia. It was …