Guwahati: The Assam assembly on Tuesday passed a series of bills aimed at accelerating urban expansion around Guwahati, easing regulatory compliance and improving the state’s investment climate.The House approved the Guwahati Satellite City Development Authority Bill, 2026, empowering the state govt to establish the Guwahati Satellite Cities Development Authority (GSCDA) to plan, develop and manage…
Pic used for representation purpse Mumbai: The MSRTC has set in motion an ambitious plan to redevelop nearly 1,485 hectares of its land through the public-private partnership (PPP) model, with a focus on generating sustainable revenue and improving the financial health of the state-run transport undertaking. MSRTC has been incurring annual losses of around Rs…
Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh commerce and industries minister Nyato Dukam on Saturday inaugurated the administrative block of the Rongoge Mega Food Park at Dolikoto here, as part of the state’s push for industrialisation and agro-processing.After the inauguration, Dukam inspected the state-of-the-art infrastructure within the facility, including the Rongoge Animal Feed Plant and common processing units. Dukam…
Guwahati: Assam tabled a bill on Thursday to create an authority for developing satellite cities around Guwahati.The Guwahati Satellite City Development Authority Bill, 2026, was introduced amid opposition from several groups on Guwahati’s outskirts to the proposed satellite townships and cities in rural belts beyond the present city limits.The bill proposes the Guwahati Satellite Cities…
Patna: The state cabinet on Wednesday approved the govt’s proposal to establish a Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) linking Patna with Gaya, Begusarai, Hajipur, Sonepur, Muzaffarpur and Ara to facilitate faster movement of passengers through four corridors on the pattern of the National Capital Region (NCR), Delhi. It also approved a proposal to set up…
BJP state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the party welcomed private investment and success of Vizhinjam port Thiruvananthapuram: The BJP state unit declared all out support to move private investment in Vizhinjam port. Without invoking the name of Adani or the shipping company MSC, to whom the Adani group is planning to transfer 49% of their…
CM Samrat Choudhary at the signing of an MoU between the UDHD and Hudco for the development of greenfield satellite townships in Patna on Friday Patna: Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (Hudco) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bihar govt’s urban development and housing department (UDHD) to provide long-term financing…
Guwahati: The Assam cabinet on Tuesday approved a series of policy reforms aimed at improving the ease of doing business, attracting private investment and simplifying regulations across sectors ranging from industry and higher education to school education and tourism.The cabinet cleared the Assam Regulation of Re-classification and Re-classification-cum-Transfer of Lands (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which will…
Former KPCC chief V M Sudheeran T’puram: A day after he urged CM V D Satheesan to drop budget proposals on the sale of low-alcohol content beverages and opening up the mineral sand sector to private investments, former KPCC chief V M Sudheeran raised concerns over the probe into the death of SNDP Yogam Kanichukulangara…
Thiruvananthapuram: The decision to grant tax relief to low-alcohol beverages is snowballing into a controversy within both the govt and the Congress, amid indications that CM V D Satheesan did not discuss the proposal either in the cabinet or within the party before it was announced in the budget.Excise minister M Liju is learnt to…
