Centre targets land disputes that cripple India’s infrastructure
People stand at integrated metro car depot site of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority at Kanjurmarg area in Mumbai, on Jan. 25.
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Archana Chaudhary,
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NITI Aayog has crafted a new model bill in which states will guarantee the accuracy of land titles and provide compensation in case of disputes.
It would replace colonial-era laws and require states to computerize all land records, link the details of landowners to those digital records and establish tribunals to resolve all outstanding cases within three years
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Twice a day at rush hour, more than 3 million cars clog Mumbai’s streets and nearly 4 million commuters squeeze onto overcrowded trains, while a four-decade land dispute that has prevented India’s financial capital from building a modern metro system continues to simmer.
The Hottest Job Market? Snow Shoveling
A man walks with a snow shovel as a snowstorm sweeps across the northeast, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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. Updated: 04 Feb 2021, 11:39 AM IST The Wall Street Journal
Too much snow plus too few teens equals a spike in fees; Parents, expecting free service? “That’s not the case here.”
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This week’s blizzard turned into a windfall for intrepid teenagers who discovered the old-fashioned rewards of shoveling snow for big bucks due to a flurry of demand.
Kyle Barreto, a 17-year-old in Brooklyn who started shoveling this winter, said he used to be addicted to lounging with videogames and television. But after months trapped indoors by the pandemic, he jumped to join a friend seeking snow jobs during the storm.
India strongly reacts to wrong depiction of country s map on WHO website
Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan.
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. Updated: 04 Feb 2021, 01:57 PM IST ANI
India has strongly raised the issue of the wrong depiction of the map of India on the WHO website, Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, informed Rajya Sabha, adding that the Indian government s position on correct portrayal of its boundaries has been unambiguously reiterated.
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India has strongly raised the issue of the wrong depiction of the map of India on the World Health Organisation s (WHO) website, Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, informed Rajya Sabha, adding that the Indian government s position on correct portrayal of its boundaries has been unambiguously reiterated .
unfit vehicles.
The BSE Auto Index surged nearly 950 points after FM Nirmala Sitharaman announced the voluntary vehicle scrappage policy to phase out old automobiles.
The policy will retire cars older than 20 years and commercial vehicles older than 15 years.
The policy promises to help infuse fresh investments worth ₹10,000 crore and add 50,000 new job opportunities.At the Union Budget 2021 today, the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the much-awaited vehicle scrappage policy to phase out 6.8 million old and unfit vehicles.
The policy promises to help infuse fresh investments worth ₹10,000 crore and add 50,000 new job opportunities. While addressing the parliament, Sitharaman said that the Road Transport and Highways Ministry would share the details soon.
If an incentive-based scrappage policy is adopted in the Budget 2021, it shall boost demand for new vehicles while helping the government achieve its targets for reducing carbon emissions