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Mumbai, April 11 The Solapur district administration in Maharashtra has mandated prior permission for the installation of statues, memorials, and flagpoles, citing an increase in unauthorized constructions that could lead to law and order issues and social tensions.A directive to this effect...

Kolkata, April 10 West Bengal Minister Shashi Panja, who is seeking re-election from the Shyampukur assembly seat here, has declared movable assets worth over Rs 4 crore and shown a steady increase in her annual income, according to her affidavit.In the affidavit, the 63-year-old minister, who...

Kolkata, April 9 – As the Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency in South Kolkata prepares for the most high-profile electoral contest in West Bengal later this month, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, pitted against each other, the...

New Delhi, April 8 The Delhi government is preparing a standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure the prompt and regularisation of 1,521 unauthorized colonies in the national capital through district-wise cells headed by additional district magistrates (ADMs), officials said on Wednesday.The...

New Delhi, April 7 The Centre will soon finalize the conversion rates for registration charges, paving the way for the resumption of the process of converting properties from leasehold to freehold in the national capital, Union Minister Manohar Lal announced on Tuesday.Converting a leasehold...

New Delhi, April 7 – The Centre announced a new policy on Tuesday to regularize properties based on "as is where is" criteria in 1,511 unauthorized colonies in the national capital, requiring all buildings to obtain approval from the Delhi Municipal Corporation.This move will provide...

New Delhi, April 7 The Centre announced a revised "as is where is" based regularisation policy on Tuesday to simplify the process of obtaining permission for registering properties and construction activities in unauthorised colonies of the national capital.The revised policy eliminates the...

Nagaon (Assam), April 6 Hours after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma denied Congress allegations regarding his wife allegedly holding multiple passports and properties abroad, Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi challenged the BJP leader to deny the claims under oath, using the Bhagavad Gita as a...

Guwahati, March 31 – Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma launched a scathing attack on Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Monday, questioning his alleged foreign assets and challenging him to make his financial details public.Speaking to reporters, CM Sarma alleged that Gogoi has not disclosed...

New Delhi, March 30 The New Delhi Municipal Council on Monday said that implementing the Unit Area Method (UAM) could reduce property tax by 30 to 50 percent, particularly benefiting older and self-occupied properties.This move is part of key amendments under the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of...

Guwahati, March 30 Congress national spokesperson Supriya Shrinate questioned the alleged sharp rise in the wealth of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's family over the past decade, stating that it was largely driven by his spouse's assets.She also alleged that Sarma had only worked to...

Mumbai, March 27 – The Maharashtra government on Friday released a government resolution (GR) to regularize residential encroachments that existed as of January 1, 2011, and are currently used solely for residential purposes.The government hopes to resolve the housing issues of lakhs of poor...

Gandhinagar, March 25 – The Gujarat Legislative Assembly passed an amendment to the state’s law on disturbed areas on Wednesday, renaming such zones as “specified areas” and introducing a series of changes to regulate the transfer of immovable property, following a heated debate in the House...

Panaji, March 25 The Goa cabinet on Wednesday extended the term of its "Mhaje Ghar" scheme by another year, allowing people to apply for regularization of ancestral houses until March 2027.Speaking at a press conference, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said the earlier deadline was March 2026...

Guwahati, March 24 The assets of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee president Gaurav Gogoi and his wife, Elizabeth Clare Gogoi, have increased to Rs 7.57 crore in 2026 from Rs 4.66 crore in 2024, with his wife accounting for a larger share, according to his nomination affidavit.Gogoi's movable...

Bengaluru, March 23 Karnataka School Education and Literacy Minister S Madhu Bangarappa introduced two bills in the assembly on Monday, seeking to protect government educational lands and streamline the teacher transfer process.The Karnataka Government Educational Institution's Lands...

Mumbai, March 23: Following a heated clash between the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the presidential elections in the Satara Zilla Parishad, political tensions have escalated to the Maharashtra Assembly.BJP legislator Sanjay Kelkar...

Hyderabad, March 18 A man is alleged to have killed his cousin over a property dispute and thrown her body parts into a lake, police said on Wednesday.The man has been arrested.The accused reportedly hit the woman (40) last month with a stick after an argument over a property issue...

Prayagraj, March 17 The Allahabad High Court has overturned an order to seize immovable property in Ghazipur belonging to Mansoor Ansari, the cousin of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, stating that the state failed to establish any connection between the commission of any crime and the...

Indore, March 16 The ongoing legal dispute over the religious nature of the Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Madhya Pradesh has taken a new turn, with the Muslim side filing a civil suit in a court in Dhar, claiming ownership of the entire structure and referring to it as "Jama...