Gurgaon: Real estate developer BPTP Ltd said it has launched its second premium township Astaire Gardens at upcoming Sector 70 A, off NH-8 here.
“Spread across 102 acres, Astaire Gardens is an eclectic mix of contemporary design comprising plots, independent floors and villas, large plot sizes, 24×7 facilities, security, a state-of-the-art health centre, schools, a creche, sanctuary and the club,” BPTP Ltd Director (Strategy & Systems) Sandeep Read More »
GURGAON: It is preferable to have work assigned to different authorities like the HUDA, MCG and HSIIDC, among others. The municipal corporation is a case in point.
Earlier, the Municipal Council (MC) had limited powers. However, since the formation of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), there has been better management and mobilization of funds. Read More »
GURGAON: Keeping in mind the depleting green cover and the water shortage in the city, the forest department of Gurgaon is all set to conserve water and is planning a project for the same.
Under this project, the officials will construct water harvesting dams, restore and check old dams and check the status of staggered contour trench and continuous contour trench in the entire Aravali range. The project costing Read More »
GURGAON: A minor dispute over committee fund claimed the life of a person, who used to coordinate the investment made by its members. Gurgaon police arrested two persons, including a relative of the victim, for kidnapping and subsequently killing him, on Tuesday. The victim, Radheshyam (38), a native of Alwar, was coordinating the fund for a local committee. Investigators said that a few days back he had a dispute with two members of this group Raghu and Omveer. The two took him out of his Read More »
GURGAON: Good news for HUDA plot owners. The states apex housing body is planning to give water connection immediately after the allotment of the plots.
As per the present rules, water connection is not provided till the building plan is sanctioned and submitted.
Plot owners have been complaining about this rule for a long time now and Read More »
GURGAON: Following stiff opposition by industrialists against power tariff hike, the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission has decided to hold a public hearing in Gurgaon on Thursday.
Scheduled to be held at the deputy commissioners office, the hearing is likely to see partcicipation of industrialists from across the city.
For Subhash Deswal, DHBVN senior engineer, the hearing will give the Read More »
GURGAON: The government-owned discom, Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) will accelerate the replacement of all 13,192 iron poles in its jurisdiction with cement ones.
The discom is replacing all iron poles with the PCC poles as these are bad conductors of electricity and are also free from rusting. He added that the cement poles have already been made available in stores. Read More »
GURGAON: Over 20 different types of IT related industrial units that were paying a low power bill by drawing power at the industry rate will now have to pay commercial rates from 31 March onwards, as per the new industrial policy of the state.
A large number of firms from the IT industry were being billed as per the industrial rate at Rs 4.15 per unit which is lower than the commercial rate of Rs 4.60 per unit. The power authorities, as per the new industrial policy, Read More »
CHANDIGARH/GURGAON: Fearing a dressing down by the Supreme Court over the issue of 12,000 illegal constructions around the IAF ammunition depot, the town and country planning department (TCPD) has passed the blame on to the Gurgaon district administration.
The issue of illegal constructions has brought the officials of town and country planning department and the civil administration to the Read More »
GURGAON: Following the deputy commissioners orders to accelerate the drive against illegal extraction of groundwater in the industrial areas, HSIIDCs officers have been combing plots in Udyog Vihar and Manesar for illegal tubewells.
The new deputy commissioner, P C Meena, constituted 18 teams to look after the groundwater extraction in Gurgaon. Read More »
HYDERABAD: The seismic observatory of the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) here recorded the earthquake that occurred in the Hindu Kush mountain ranges in Afghanistan on Monday.
As a result of the quake, some parts of northern India felt tremors. There have been reports that the tremors were felt in Delhi, Gurgaon and Jaipur.
The head of the seismic observatory of NGRI, D Srinagesh, told The Times of Read More »
GURGAON: After waiting for seven years for the allotment of residential land, owners of these plots are now planning to fight a legal battle against the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA).
In 2004, HUDA had announced that over 3,000 plots of six categories in Sector 57 will be allotted. But their promise is yet to see the light of day.
The plot owners have already filed an RTI to know the reason for the delay. Read More »
Chandigarh: Haryana government has succeeded in networking—vertically and horizontally—about 1,400 offices of its various departments with the setting up of state wide area network (SWAN). The state government has also taken initiatives for creation of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and the work is apace on setting up state data centre.
Disclosing this here on Monday, an official spokesman said that basic structure was put in place for the creation of information technology (IT) Read More »
The Gurgaon administration on Friday pulled up for slow work the officials of the 53-km Manesar-Palwal stretch, part of the ambitious 135-kilometre Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) project.
A few days ago DS Construction, concessionaire in charge of the project, had assured that the Manesar-Palwal stretch will be complete by next month-end.
Deputy Commissioner P C Meena, who inspected the stretch on Friday Read More »
GURGAON: They operate from an airy 8th floor apartment in Gurgaon. Some hammering away source code on their MacBooks, others squinting hard at their BlackBerrys, while the rest of the bunch relax on bean bags placed next to a high window.
Innoz Technologies, a small enterprise of 20 college-friends, got a mention in the list of top under-35 year-old innovators compiled by Technology Review, a magazine published by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Read More »