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GIFT City/New Delhi: Off the National Highway 8 that connects Ahmedabad with Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar, a handful of tall, shiny buildings tower over the smaller settlements along the highway.
These skyscrapers are part of the Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City, the country’s first business district housing an International Finance Service Centre (IFSC) and special economic zone for domestic and international financial services.
The city, built on the banks of the Sabarmati river, was planned across 886 acres and 62 million square feet, with an aim to create 5 lakh direct jobs when complete. The city was going to be India’s attempt to capture business from financial services hubs like Singapore and London by offering investors various incentives to conduct their foreign financial transactions in this hub.
Noida: Pet owners have a reason to rejoice. The Noida Authority has withdrawn its order discouraging residents from taking out their dogs for walks in public parks.
In fact, going a step further, the Authority has started blackening out the message on the warning boards that said people should not take their pets inside parks. The decision followed directives from the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI). Pet owners though will have to follow a set of guidelines or face fines, officials said.
A group of dog lovers had moved AWBI and submitted the photographs of the boards that the Authority had put up in the wake of confrontation between pet owners and other residents on the rights of the animals.