As someone who could not predict a single beat in advance, who was exhilarated by its audacity to throw random elements together and take chances all over the place, Sreehari Nair thinks Odum Kuthira Chaadum Kuthira is one of the best films of the year.
Lavasa would soon be joining the Asian Development Bank as vice president
'...the President is pleased to accept the resignation tendered by Shri Ashok Lavasa, Election Commissioner with effect from the 31st August, 2020,' the notification said.
Lavasa, a career bureaucrat, joined as Election Commissioner on January 23, 2018, and being senior most on the poll panel would have become CEC in April next year after the term of incumbent Sunil Arora ends.
The trouble for Ashok Lavasa's family began a few months back when his wife, Novel Singhal Lavasa, came under the scanner of the income tax department on charges of alleged tax evasion.
Lavasa said, 'My view is very clear that transparency is important ... minority view should be included and there should be time-bound procedures'.
Rajiv Kumar is a retired IAS officer of 1984 batch of Jharkhand cadre.
The Environment Ministry on Monday said there were loopholes in Lavasa Corporation's reply to its notice for alleged violation of norms in its 25,000-hectares hill city project near Pune.
Infrastructure major HCC's realty arm, Lavasa Corporation, that has floated a firm, MyCity Technology, in partnership with IT major Wipro, today tied-up with networking leader Cisco to provide Information and Communication Technology services in the newly-created Lavasa city.
Lavasa may be Maharasthra's newest address in real estate development, but villagers there feel they have reason to worry. What's going on?
Of the five towns planned, work is progressing in two, Dasve and Mogao.
The MoEF will have to pass the order on this issue by December 16.
On a day Ashok Lavasa's decision to recuse from model code of conduct complaints became public, the EC said the 'full commission' would meet on May 21 to discuss the issue of dissent and 'related matters'.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has rubbished suggestions that coalitionpartner Nationalist Congress Party has put pressure on him to give clearance to Lavasa Hill city project.
The EC cited Section 8(1)(g) of the RTI Act exempting the disclosure of information which would endanger the life or physical safety of any person or identify the source of information or assistance given in confidence for law enforcement or security purposes.
The integrated hospital and wellness centre would have four major service verticals -- medical cluster, wellness cluster, long-term care and education-R&D zone.
The company plans to raise Rs 750 crore; other realtors may follow.
According to sources in the Maharashtra government, directors of the multi-crore Lavasa township project will be prosecuted for violating environmental laws and the terms and conditions stipulated under them. Lavasa is an ambitious hill city project worth Rs 3,000 crore that is being developed near Pune. The directors can face five years imprisonment and a fine of Rs one lakh if found guilty.
Lavasa had clarified that the development carried out at the Lavasa City were within the framework of the clearance granted by the state environment ministry.
I had said that eloquence of silence is always difficult but far more desirable to see the election process through instead of creating ill-timed controversies.
Slamming Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for asking the Centre to give green nod to the first phase of the controversial Lavasa project, Anna Hazare has accused him of violating his oath of office.
Firm ready to accept the five preconditions specified by environment ministry.
The legal battle between Lavasa Corporation, an arm of Hindustan Construction Company involved in the development of a hill city in Maharashtra, and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is expected to prolong further.
The BJP legislator from Nagpur stunned the state assembly when he showed papers, which showed how former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and a few senior NCP leaders asked officials to clear all obstacles with regard to Lavasa despite the project violating all laws.
Lavasa Corporation is rushing to complete its township. No one knows if the promoter is complying with environmental conditions on which it was allowed to resume work.
The project carries an investment tag of over $100 million (Rs 440 crore).
The IMD issued a 'red alert' for Pune district and asked people to take precautions.
In a major setback to Ajit Gulabchand's ambitious hill city project, the Union environment ministry has asked the Maharashtra government to initiate action against Lavasa Corporation for violation of green norms.
Lavasa, a hill city project majority owned by Hindustan Construction Company, plans to raise as much as Rs 1,500 crore (Rs 15 billion) through an initial public offering to fund the cost of the project being planned near Pune. The company plans to sell shares by 2010.
Activists of various NGOs have filed a PIL in the Bombay High Court challenging the construction of a proposed 25,000 acre Lavasa hill station project near Pune in Western Maharashtra on the ground that environmental clearance had not been obtained from the Centre for it.
The former British rower and five times gold medalist Sir Steve Redgrave said on Tuesday that India has the potential to nurture Olympic rowers, who can also be medals contenders.
Lavasa Corporation, the real estate arm of Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), filed a draft prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for an initial public offer (IPO), even after several developers have been keeping similar plans, after filing these, on hold for several months.
The Maharashtra government has found "some irregularities" in Lavasa, the country's first planned hill city project, and would take action if its probe proved any wrongdoing, a senior state minister said.
Dream hillstation project Lavasa, near Pune, is now a millstone around lenders' neck.
Seeks talks after court battle lost.
Infrastructure major Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) on Friday expressed hope that it would soon get environment clearances for the first phase of its Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) Lavasa project, a hill city being developed near Pune.
Pune's Lavasa Lake City has run into rough weather with the environment ministry slapping a showcause notice on Lavasa Corporation for carrying out construction activities without its approval in 25,000 hectares.
In the season of scams, Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and his close relatives were on Thursday dragged into a corruption scandal by a former India Police Service officer-turned-lawyer for benefiting a private developer by allegedly bestowing undue favours for the controversial Lavasa hill city project.
The man behind the Bandra-Worli sea link and Lavasa is far from triumphant despite the brightening prospects for the controversial hill city.
The first time the Election Commission has taken cognisance of a model code of conduct complaint against a sitting prime minister.
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