Real Estate’s Expectations from the 2024–2025 Interim Budget

Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Group   In 2023, the residential real estate market experienced extraordinary growth, as new launches and home sales reached record highs. In 2023, sales of housing in the top seven cities reached an all-time high of about 4.77 lakh units, while sales of newly launched homes reached almost 4.46 lakh units.   The real estate industry's outlook for 2024 is currently positive, but the results of the upcoming general elections will also have a significant impact on the demand for and growth in residential real…

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2024’s Top Choice for Home Buyers – Why Pune is Winning Hearts

 by Akash Pharande, Managing Director – Pharande Spaces As the veil lifts on 2024, property end-users and investors in and around Pune are firming up their New Year's resolution to achieve home ownership this year. It's certainly the perfect time for it. According to real estate consultants Anarock, Pune and MMR were the top-selling housing markets in 2023. In Pune, approximately 86,680 homes were sold in 2023, states Anarock, second only to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region's impressive sales of 153,870 units. Pune's high ranking in housing sales is not surprising.…

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Inauguration and foundation stone laying of various projects in Ayodhya

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today inaugurated, dedicated to the nation and laid the foundation stone of several development projects worth more than Rs 15,700 crore in Ayodhya Dham. These include projects worth about Rs 11,100 crore for the development of Ayodhya and its surrounding areas and projects worth about Rs 4600 crore related to other projects across Uttar Pradesh. Earlier, PM Modi inaugurated the redeveloped Ayodhya railway station and flagged off the new Amrit Bharat trains and Vande Bharat trains. He also dedicated many other railway projects to the nation. After this…

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Second Vande Bharat train from Katra gets green signal

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology (Independent Charge); Dr Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for the Prime Minister's Office, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, yesterday participated in the flagging off of the second Vande Bharat Express connecting the holy city of Katra with New Delhi. With this, Katra became one of the cities in the country for which two Vande Bharat Express trains have started running. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi virtually flagged off Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-New Delhi Vande Bharat Express from Ayodhya in Uttar…

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Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha takes charge of Western Air Command of Indian Air Force

Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha is a graduate of the National Defense Academy, Pune and was commissioned into the Indian Air Force as a fighter aircraft pilot in June 1985. Shri Sinha is also an alumnus of the prestigious Defense Services Staff College, Wellington. He is an experienced fighter pilot and has served in various capacities as 'A' Category Accredited Flying Instructor, Fighter Striker Leader, Instrument Rating Instructor and Examiner. Air Marshal Sinha has more than 4500 hours of flying experience. Shri Sinha has held many important command and staff appointments during his…

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10-Year-Old Robotics Whiz Aarav Pandya Shines at IIT Techfest.

  Aarav Pandya, a Grade 5  student from Billabong High International School (BHIS) Vadodara, has emerged as a rising star in the realm of robotics in a magnificent exhibition of talent and invention. Aarav competed in the prestigious Robotics Competition organized by OLL / IIT Techfest on December 27th 2023, at the Annual Fest of IIT Bombay.   Aarav demonstrated his exceptional skills by securing 1st place in the Line Follower competition and receiving a cash prize of Rs 25,000.The Second position in the Line Follower Competition was also bagged…

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