Top NRI Realty Investment Destinations
The Nonresident Indian`s (NRI) investment in real estate is a big boost to the struggling reality sector. In the past, the NRI population primarily bought homes, where they would eventually settle down after returning to their home grounds. However, since the last decade, there is a change in the... read more »
What is a Smart City? Find the full list of nominated smart cities here
The central government on Thursday announced 98 cities and towns for development as smart cities based on evaluation of financial and institutional capacities and past track record of urban local bodies. According to Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu, a smart city “is one having... read more »
Migrant crisis: Up to 200 feared dead in Libya sinking
A boat packed with mainly African migrants bound for Italy sank off the Libyan coast on Thursday and officials said up to 200 might have died. A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the overcrowded boat had set off, said there had around 400 people on board. Many appeared to... read more »
Austria: Bodies of up to 50 migrants found in abandoned truck near Vienna
Austrian police found the decomposing bodies of up to 50 migrants in an abandoned truck, sparking a cross-border hunt for the people-smugglers responsible for the latest tragedy in Europe’s migrant crisis. The grisly discovery near the Slovakia and Hungary borders came as at least 30 more... read more »
Naxals kidnap school boy from hostel, release him later
Suspected Naxalites kidnapped a student from a reputed residential school in Maoist-hit Jamui district in the wee hours on Thursday. The Maoists released the boy after four hours after... read more »
CBI registers case against Teesta Setalvad for ”illegal” foreign aid
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case against civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad for allegedly receiving funds from foreign entities without prior permission from the... read more »
Turkish Airlines emergency landing: Plane leaves for Istanbul from Delhi
An Istanbul-bound Turkish Airlines flight from Bangkok which landed in emergency conditions here on Tuesday following a bomb scare, departed early Wednesday for its destination after being... read more »
I’ll start countrywide agitation or ‘Implement OROP:Anna to PM Modi
Social activist Anna Hazare has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to implement the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme at the earliest, failing which, he would launch a... read more »
Brinda Karat says Kalyan Singh like spoke ‘RSS pracharak...
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday said Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh had spoken ‘like an RSS pracharak’ when he demanded that the word... read more »
