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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister ArvindKejriwalhas asked all land-owning agencies in the national capital not to demolish 'jhuggis' until the end of the winter season.

The move comes after the chief minister held a meeting with senior officials from the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB), the Delhi Development Authority and the three Municipal Corporations of Delhi over the Slum Policy.

According to a government statement, Kejriwal asked the agencies not to demolish any 'jhuggi' till February 28.

NEW DELHI: The National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) has decided to take out a protest march against the union government on December 21. Apart from demanding to stop indiscriminate harassment and eviction of street vendors, the NASVI will demand for proper implementation of Street Vending Act – 2014 across the country.

Starting from the Delhi’s Ram LeelaMaidan, the protest of the vendors will head towards the Parliament, where the Act was passed in 2014. According to section 3 of the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014, “No street vendor shall be evicted or, as the case may be, relocated till the survey specified under sub-section (1) has been completed and the certificate of vending is issued to all street vendors.

New Delhi: Housing prices have increased in 36 cities during April-June 2017 out of 50 major cities with Vizag recording the highest annual appreciation of nearly 16 per cent, according to NHB.

The National Housing Bank (NHB) Housing Price Index (HPIs) tracks the movement in prices of residential properties on a quarterly basis, taking FY 2012-13 as the base year.

"HPI recorded an overall increase in 36 cities, decrease in 13 cities and no change in 1 city on Y-o-Y basis," NHB said in a statement.

New Delhi: Prime Minister  NarendraModi will commission India's first new diesel-electric submarine in over 17 years in Mumbai today.

The new 1,565-tonne submarine, named INS Kalvari (tiger shark, a deadly deep-sea predator) will be commissioned after the first-ever submarine inducted by India from Russia in December 1967. It is to be followed by five of her Scorpene sisters under the Rs 23,652 crore "Project-75" underway at Mazagon Docks in collaboration with France.

The Scorpene project, of course, has faced huge time and cost overruns after the contract with French shipbuilder DCNS (the Naval Group) was inked way back in October 2005.