GDP NEWS

GDP growth slumps to 5.8%

Publication: THE HINDU Date : 01 JUNE 2019

India’s GDP grew at 5.8% in the January-March 2019 quarter, dragging down the full year growth to a five-year low of 6.8%.

Explained: What is the fallout of a reduced GDP growth rate

Publication: THE INDIAN EXPRESS Date : 01 JUNE 2019

Faltering growth puts pressure on the government and the Reserve Bank of India to take measures to boost growth.

BUDGET NEWS

FM Nirmala Sitharaman's first budget speech on July 5

Publication: BUSINESS STANDARD Date : 01 JUNE 2019

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the first full-year budget of the new government at 11am on July 5, the government said on Friday a day after being sworn in for a second term.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present her first Union Budget on 5 July

Publication: MINT Date : 01 JUNE 2019

The Budget session at the Parliament is slated to begin on 17 June. Sitharaman took a briefing from senior officials in the Ministry after assuming charge on Friday

RERA NEWS

Rera wants rules tweaked to include redevpt projects

Publication: TIMES OF INDIA Date : 01 JUNE 2019

The state’s realty watchdog, Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority or MahaRERA, has proposed an amendment to the existing rules to bring both the rehabilitation and sale components of redevelopment projects

CITY NEWS

MHADA's list includes 23 dangerous buildings

Publication: DNA Date : 01 JUNE 2019

The Mumbai Repair and Reconstruction Board, a body of MHADA, incharge of cessed buildings in the city, takes care of making the list

City to gets its seventh and biggest pumping station on salt pan land

Publication: TIMES OF INDIA Date : 01 JUNE 2019

Mumbai: BMC has decided to invoke the Disaster Management Act to acquire six acres of salt pan land at Mahul to build the city’s biggest pumping station,