AMAN DEEP, Author at CTN PRESS

Great Barrier Reef should be put on ‘in danger’ list, UN panel says

SYDNEY: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be listed as a world heritage site that is “in danger”, a UN panel recommended on Tuesday, saying the world’s biggest coral reef ecosystem was significantly impacted by climate change and the warming of oceans. Frequent bleaching events are threatening the reef, including four over the last seven years […]

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Google pics show shrinking forest, Uttarakhand HC stays construction in hamlet

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Image used for representational purpose only DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand high court has put a stop on all construction activities in the 36-acre Jilling Estate, nestled amid lush forests of Nainital, after going through Google photos taken in 2015, 2018 and 2022 that show a sharp depletion in green cover in the village. An HC bench

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European landlords planning to sell assets to cut down debt but buyers on strike

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Europe’s biggest public landlords are planning a swathe of major asset sales as they look to slash debt in the face of rising rates. Their timing could hardly be worse. Companies including Vonovia SE, Land Securities Group Plc and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield have announced plans to sell large chunks of their portfolios to shore up balance sheets,

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Homebuyers body demands real estate law RERA to be functional in West Bengal

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Homebuyers’ association FPCE on Sunday urged the West Bengal government to make the real estate law RERA functional in the state at the earliest to protect the consumers’ interest. In May last year, the Supreme Court struck down the West Bengal government’s law WBHIRA for regulating the real estate sector, saying it was “unconstitutional”. The

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Some countries have resisted 1.5°C goal in COP27 text, US says

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SHARM EL-SHEIKH: A few countries have resisted mentioning a global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the official text of the COP27 summit in Egypt, US Special Climate Envoy John Kerry said at the conference on Saturday. “You’re absolutely correct. There are very few countries, but a few, that have raised the

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Officials vow to put best foot forward

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NEW DELHI: Days after the Centre sought to fix accountability of district collectors for their failure to deal with the problem of stubble burning, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Friday held a meeting with the chief secretary and deputy commissioners of 22 districts of Punjab which reported a sudden spike in stubble

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SC upholds Bombay HC verdict against rules pushing up land property tax

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MUMBAI: The Supreme Court on Monday upheld an April 2019 Bombay high court judgment that had struck down three rules to fix the ‘capital value’ of land where construction is set to start under a new property tax regime. In a setback for the BMC, the SC judgment by a bench of Chief Justice U

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Process for issuing health NOCs for new buildings eased

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PANAJI: Under the ‘ease of doing business’, the public health department has reduced the documentation required for issuing health NOCs for building construction and setting up of commercial and industrial establishments. It has also stated that applications for NOCs not processed within five working days, will be treated as “deemed approval”. The public health department

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Climate change to impact mountains, human activity on a global scale

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JOHANNESBURG: Climate change will negatively impact mountain landscapes and human activity globally by increasing the risk of hazards such as avalanches, river floods, landslides, debris flows and lake outburst floods, a study has warned. The researchers noted that under the threat of climate change, mountain landscapes all over the world have the risk of becoming

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Odisha CM to launch drone survey of slums today

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Representative Image BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday will inaugurate the drone survey of slums after completion of which the dwellers will be given land rights as per the Jaga Mission. A private agency will conduct the survey to identify genuine beneficiaries of land rights among the slum dwellers. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC)

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NCR dominant in terms of units of real estate projects, says UP RERA

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Despite the high number of residential projects in non-NCR districts of Uttar Pradesh, three NCR districts — Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar and Meerut — are dominating in terms of units, according to the UP Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA). In a statement UP RERA said, in September, 36 projects have been registered with UP

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Defaulters Face Music, NMC Collects 75 Lakh Property Tax

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NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) move to play the drums in front of the properties of big tax defaulters yielded good results as the civic body recovered Rs 75 lakh from the tax defaulters on the first day on Monday The NMC has started sending its teams to the homes and commercial establishments of

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