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Shreya Foundation new programs to help people with housing, education, marriage

These four distinct programs are aimed at supporting the foundation's leaders, customers, and economically disadvantaged employees.

(L to R) Vikram Chakraborti, Mahesh, Hemant Rai, Nana Ji Ganta and D Tattaiya

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Published on Aug 30, 2024 12:48 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Cabinet approves Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)-Urban 2.0 Scheme: Eligibility

The PMAY-U 2.0 scheme is to give financial support for middle class and impoverished families for building, buying, or renting reasonably priced urban homes

The Union Cabinet has approved the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) 2.0 (Representational Image/Pixabay)

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Published on Aug 12, 2024 05:16 PM IST

ByHT News Desk | Edited by Abhyjith K. Ashokan

Cricket betting racket busted in Jalandhar, Rs1.23 cr seized from ‘architect bookie’

Seized laptop, mobile phones of accused being scanned by cyber cell, income tax department informed about cash seizure, says police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar

Police officials with the cash seized from a Jalandhar based cricket bookie.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 26, 2020 07:06 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Jalandhar

Ajay Chaudhary: Setting new benchmarks in luxury and affordable housing in NCR

A man of exemplary vision and enterprise, Mr. Ajay Chaudhary, CMD, Ace Group, is continuously engaged in developing real estate masterpieces with aim to play a major role in providing affordable and luxurious projects in NCR.

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Updated on Apr 03, 2020 04:35 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Coronavirus curfew: Hunger, jostling for food, chaos in Chandigarh colonies

People struggle to get their hands on food packets, while completing forgetting social distancing, the primary objective of curfew; several return empty handed

Administration staff organising vegetables for door-to-door delivery on a CTU bus at Sector 41 in Chandigarh on Thursday.(Keshav Singh/HT)

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Published on Mar 27, 2020 01:13 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Civic body finds 7 plots to create 8,140 PAP homes

With housing units at Mahul ruled out after the Bombay high court (HC) order, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has identified seven public plots, admeasuring over 1 lakh square meters, to build 8,140 housing units for those affected by various infrastructure projects.

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Updated on Dec 19, 2019 12:41 AM IST

BySagar Pillai, Mumbai

Area for affordable housing units doubled in Haryana

These houses are allotted to the buyers on the basis of a draw of lots conducted under the supervision of government authorities. The scheme is open to all applicants but preference is given to those who have not been allotted a plot or flat in HSVP or other licensed colonies in the state.

In August, the state government had increased the area available for affordable category housing from 15 acres to 30 acres per sector.(HT FILE)

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Updated on Sep 19, 2019 05:59 AM IST

Gurugram | ByAbhishek Behl

Chennai, Bengaluru, Pune have delayed flats worth ₹11,000 crore

According to JLL data, the real estate firms of Delhi-NCR are biggest defaulters as their contribution in delayed housing units accounts for 71% in volume and 56% in value terms. Kolkata has the least number of delayed units at 384 worth ₹288 crore.

NCR and Mumbai together contributed to 91% of the troubled units, JLL said in the report.(Mint photo)

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Updated on Aug 27, 2019 02:34 PM IST

Mumbai | ByLivemint

Gurugram has the most unsold housing units in NCR, says realty report

It must be mentioned that a report released by the same firm last month had said that Gurugram had the least number of apartments that are stuck due to legal and financial issues.

Gurugram-based developers said that reason for high unsold stock is that a large number of projects have been completed in last two years and made ready for possession.(HT FILE)

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Updated on Aug 22, 2019 09:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Gurugram | ByAbhishek Behl

Jeffrey Epstein’s guards worked extreme OT shifts morning of death

Epstein’s abrupt death cuts short a criminal prosecution that could have pulled back the curtain on the inner workings of a high-flying financier with connections to celebrities and presidents, though prosecutors have vowed to continue investigating.

Police officers stand outside New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital, where Jeffrey Epstein's body was transported, in Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., August 10, 2019.(REUTERS)

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Updated on Aug 12, 2019 01:01 PM IST

New York | ByAssociated Press

Push for Madhuban Bapudham housing scheme, GDA finalises price for developed plots

In 2004, farmers with a collective land holding of 281 acres had challenged GDA’s acquisition process, in which the emergency clause was invoked.

The Ghaziabad development authority (GDA) has finalised the rates at which developed plots will be offered to those farmers whose land was acquired for the Madhuban Bapudham Township, located between Delhi-Meerut Road and NH-9.

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Updated on Aug 10, 2019 01:27 AM IST

Ghaziabad | ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Gzb authority cracks down on developers for single unit plot norm violations

Authority officials said that most violations were taking place in the trans-Hindon areas of Indirapuram and Sahibabad. According to sources, the authority has come across construction of more than sanctioned flats in six instances in Indirapuram and one in Vaishali.

Authority officials said that most violations were taking place in the trans-Hindon areas of Indirapuram and Sahibabad.(HT file photo)

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Updated on Aug 06, 2019 09:42 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad | ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

DDA survey to assess housing demand in Delhi from August 1

DDA officials said that the survey will collect data for both general and EWS categories.

A view of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Flats at Narela in New Delhi.(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Jul 31, 2019 07:03 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByRisha Chitlangia

Gurugram has the least number of stuck housing projects in NCR

At least 1.18 lakh units in 67 projects in the NCR have remained incomplete since then and 69% of this stock has already been sold out. About 2,300 of such houses are in Gurugram, said the report.

Tougher conditions for licence in Haryana have been the reasons for fewer defaulters in the city, say experts.(Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times archive)

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Updated on Jul 26, 2019 11:58 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Gurugram | ByAbhishek Behl

Revised GST for under-construction flats explained

The new rates came into force from April 1 after the GST Council in March approved the proposal in this regard with a view to boosting demand in real estate sector.

The new rates are applicable to all projects which commenced on or after April 1, 2019 as well as for on-going projects(Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

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Published on May 26, 2019 10:21 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByHT Correspondent

Most delayed residential units in Delhi-NCR, finds realty report

The report says that 5,61,100 housing units worth rupees 4.5 lakh crore is stuck in various stages of non-completion across the seven major residential markets — NCR, MMR, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune — in the country.

Homebuyers in Ansal Heights alleged that the project has been delayed by more than four years.(HT Photo)

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Updated on Apr 10, 2019 03:25 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Gurugram | ByAbhishek Behl

GST Council approves transition plan for new tax rates for real estate sector

The all-powerful GST Council Tuesday approved a transition plan for the implementation of new tax structure for housing units, Revenue Secretary A B Pandey said.

Pandey said GST rates for new projects will be mandatory from April 1.(Getty Images/iStockphoto)

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Published on Mar 19, 2019 03:45 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

Ghaziabad Development Authority surpasses housing unit target of central govt scheme

The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA), which was given a target to give approval for at least 13,500 houses for economically backward classes in the financial year 2018-19, has sent project reports for construction of about 19,000 houses.

The houses, to be built under the Centre’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY), need to be sanctioned by the state government, which has approved at least 15,000 of the project reports forwarded by the Ghaziabad authority.(Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

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Published on Feb 27, 2019 03:24 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad | ByPeeyush Khandelwal

Budget 2019: Govt extends tax sops for affordable home developers; no tax on notional rent for unsold units

In his budget speech, Goyal said benefits under Section 80-IBA of the Income Tax Act are being extended for one more year, i.e, to housing projects approved till March next year. This proposal would boost supply of affordable housing.

The government announced that capital gains of up to <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>2 crore could be rolled over for investment in two housing units from the current one unit only. It also exempted tax on notional rent on a second self-occupied house.(PTI/ Representative Image)

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Updated on Feb 01, 2019 05:40 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

26,959 low-cost houses to come up on Mumbai national park’s border

Inside Aarey, units for slum habitants, tribals to come up in 90 acres; environmentalists say it will damage ecosystem

There are approximately 13,486 slum hutments and 1,795 tribal families in the area, as per SRA’s records.

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Published on Dec 11, 2018 12:01 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent, Mumbai

Redevelopment fraud: Realty firm dupes 60 families of ₹36 crore in Mumbai

Two partners of KT Group have been arrested for illegally making profits from redeveloping a cooperative housing society in Dahisar

Construction on the redeveloped Dahisar Ujjwal Co-operative Housing Society (CHS), in Kandarpada, Dahisar stopped abruptly in 2015.(HT Photo)

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Published on Sep 02, 2018 11:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByVijay Kumar Yadav, Mumbai

Centre approves 1.12 lakh more houses under PM’s housing scheme

According to the housing and urban affairs ministry, which is mandated to implement the scheme, the total number of houses being funded under the PMAY (Urban) is close to 55 lakh across the country so far.

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has approved the construction of 1,12,213 more affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban).(Representative photo)

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Updated on Aug 24, 2018 07:00 PM IST

New Delhi | ByPress Trust of India

At 300 metres, Noida’s tallest tower will be ready in 2 years

Noida-based realty firm Supertech Limited has said that it will complete its 80-storey Spira tower in the next two years.

A view of under-construction Supertech building at sector 77, in Noida.(Virendra Singh Gosain/HT File Photo)

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Updated on Aug 18, 2018 02:22 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Noida | ByVinod Rajput

Govt committed to resolving homebuyers’ issues: Minister Khanna

Khanna was in Ghaziabad to attend a review meeting at the Ghaziabad district headquarters. He said the government can act against builders only within the legal framework.

According to official figures, there are around 25 private developers who are yet to deliver flats to homebuyers. The statistics show that there are 19,965 sanctioned housing units of which 15,790 have been constructed so far.(Sakib Ali/HT Photo)

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Published on Apr 23, 2018 10:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPeeyush Khandelwal, Ghaziabad

GDA files FIR for delay caused by developer in delivery of 100 flats

The developer claimed no delay in taking up the completion certificate

Officials said that the matter pertains to one of the towers of the Mahagun Puram project at Mehrauli near NH-24. The tower comprises 100 housing units where work is allegedly pending causing delay in issuance of completion certificate, said officials.(Sakib Ali/HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Apr 19, 2018 10:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent, Ghaziabad

7 inmates dead, 17 injured in South Carolina prison fighting

The South Carolina Department of Corrections tweeted that it involved multiple inmate-on-inmate altercations in three housing units.

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2016, file photo, razor wire protects a perimeter of the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, S.C.(AP)

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Updated on Apr 16, 2018 05:49 PM IST

Associated Press, Columbia | ByAssociated Press

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These four distinct programs are aimed at supporting the foundation's leaders, customers, and economically disadvantaged employees.

The PMAY-U 2.0 scheme is to give financial support for middle class and impoverished families for building, buying, or renting reasonably priced urban homes

Seized laptop, mobile phones of accused being scanned by cyber cell, income tax department informed about cash seizure, says police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar

A man of exemplary vision and enterprise, Mr. Ajay Chaudhary, CMD, Ace Group, is continuously engaged in developing real estate masterpieces with aim to play a major role in providing affordable and luxurious projects in NCR.

People struggle to get their hands on food packets, while completing forgetting social distancing, the primary objective of curfew; several return empty handed

With housing units at Mahul ruled out after the Bombay high court (HC) order, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has identified seven public plots, admeasuring over 1 lakh square meters, to build 8,140 housing units for those affected by various infrastructure projects.

These houses are allotted to the buyers on the basis of a draw of lots conducted under the supervision of government authorities. The scheme is open to all applicants but preference is given to those who have not been allotted a plot or flat in HSVP or other licensed colonies in the state.

According to JLL data, the real estate firms of Delhi-NCR are biggest defaulters as their contribution in delayed housing units accounts for 71% in volume and 56% in value terms. Kolkata has the least number of delayed units at 384 worth ₹288 crore.

It must be mentioned that a report released by the same firm last month had said that Gurugram had the least number of apartments that are stuck due to legal and financial issues.

Epstein’s abrupt death cuts short a criminal prosecution that could have pulled back the curtain on the inner workings of a high-flying financier with connections to celebrities and presidents, though prosecutors have vowed to continue investigating.

In 2004, farmers with a collective land holding of 281 acres had challenged GDA’s acquisition process, in which the emergency clause was invoked.

Authority officials said that most violations were taking place in the trans-Hindon areas of Indirapuram and Sahibabad. According to sources, the authority has come across construction of more than sanctioned flats in six instances in Indirapuram and one in Vaishali.

DDA officials said that the survey will collect data for both general and EWS categories.

At least 1.18 lakh units in 67 projects in the NCR have remained incomplete since then and 69% of this stock has already been sold out. About 2,300 of such houses are in Gurugram, said the report.

The new rates came into force from April 1 after the GST Council in March approved the proposal in this regard with a view to boosting demand in real estate sector.

The report says that 5,61,100 housing units worth rupees 4.5 lakh crore is stuck in various stages of non-completion across the seven major residential markets — NCR, MMR, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune — in the country.

The all-powerful GST Council Tuesday approved a transition plan for the implementation of new tax structure for housing units, Revenue Secretary A B Pandey said.

The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA), which was given a target to give approval for at least 13,500 houses for economically backward classes in the financial year 2018-19, has sent project reports for construction of about 19,000 houses.

In his budget speech, Goyal said benefits under Section 80-IBA of the Income Tax Act are being extended for one more year, i.e, to housing projects approved till March next year. This proposal would boost supply of affordable housing.

Inside Aarey, units for slum habitants, tribals to come up in 90 acres; environmentalists say it will damage ecosystem

Two partners of KT Group have been arrested for illegally making profits from redeveloping a cooperative housing society in Dahisar

According to the housing and urban affairs ministry, which is mandated to implement the scheme, the total number of houses being funded under the PMAY (Urban) is close to 55 lakh across the country so far.

Noida-based realty firm Supertech Limited has said that it will complete its 80-storey Spira tower in the next two years.

Khanna was in Ghaziabad to attend a review meeting at the Ghaziabad district headquarters. He said the government can act against builders only within the legal framework.

The developer claimed no delay in taking up the completion certificate

The South Carolina Department of Corrections tweeted that it involved multiple inmate-on-inmate altercations in three housing units.

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