BBMP’s steel flyover work is creating roadblock
ByNaveen MenezesNaveen Menezes / Updated: Apr 30, 2021, 06:00 IST
Motorists, residents foresee huge traffic snarls after Palike closes road to construct flyover at Shivananda Circle
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (
BBMP) barricaded the entry to Hare Krishna Road from Race Course Road to construct a steel flyover at Shivananda Circle. Closing this road, that leads to
Seshadripuram, may create problems for motorists, post the lockdown. The civic body has not acquired the
properties needed to build the flyover, yet, and is far from completing the construction.
The BBMP needs to acquire about four properties, which are double or quadruple storied buildings, to construct the 500 metres long flyover. It offered to provide transferable development rights (TDR) as compensation in exchange for the properties but the land owners did not agree. Interestingly, one of the buildings that was identified to be demolished is occupied
Asif Hafeez loses three UK properties worth £6m after arrest in drugs case
National
April 29, 2021
LONDON: Pakistani gold and silver trader Muhammad Asif Hafeez has lost three expensive properties in the UK nearly four years after being arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) on American request for extradition in relation to charges of heroin import.
Muhammad Asif Hafeez is currently languishing in inhumane conditions at the high security unit at Belmarsh prison, awaiting ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on whether or not he should be extradited to the US where he faces three different counts of Class-A drugs import – each carrying a minimum life sentence.
Zarina Isa bought UK properties using clean money
Top Story
April 28, 2021
LONDON: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has accepted all review petitions challenging the court’s judgement in the presidential reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa over the case that started over the purchase and ownership of three London properties.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Justice Qazi Faez Isa faced a judicial reference filed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) government through the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) in regard to three London properties owned by the judge’s wife and two children.
Justice Isa’s family own properties in London but these properties were bought by the judge’s daughter, wife and son through independent means of income, sent from Pakistan to London through legal and declared means. Justice Isa was accused of owning the three London properties but the judge maintained that he was not the beneficial owner of the properties, directly or indirectly. The Pres
ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court Islamabad on Friday ordered auction of seized properties of former prime minister and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in Toshakhana reference.The Accountability Court.