Residential and Commercial Projects in Ahmedabad

Archive for March, 2010

Chances of getting into medical college in Gujarat to get better

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Some good news for wannabe doctors in the state. State government has proposed an increase of 255 seats for postgraduate medical courses in three medical colleges in the state.

IIM-A’s flagship programme to now cost Rs 13.7L

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

To replenish an exhausted corpus, to meet payment of sixth pay commission arrears and to make its the flagship programme self-sustaining, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has increased the fee for its Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management consecutively for the third year. From Rs 5 lakh for the two-year residential course of [...]

Shooting of Big B’s Gujarat ad to start in a month

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Soon after blogging in support of superstar Amitabh Bachchan, who is being hounded by the Congress, chief minister Narendra Modi moved quickly to firm up plans of projecting Big B as Gujarat’s brand ambassador. Modi met top advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather’s (O&M’s) India chief Piyush Pandey on Monday in Gandhinagar to expedite the project. [...]

Federa, father of all airports

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

The proposed international airport at Federa could well be the biggest in India. The state government has earmarked a massive 7,500 hectares of land, mostly wasteland, for the new airport at Navagam village near Dholera special investment region (SIR). The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has already cleared the site last month.

NID to help IITs discover their ‘Ranchos’

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

There are hardly any ‘Ranchos’ — the popular character played by Aamir Khan in the Bollywood blockbuster ‘3 Idiots’ — in engineering colleges who would innovate with technology and take it beyond the course structure. This lack of innovation and product development in the industry has prompted the apex design school in the country to [...]

AMC on an outsourcing spree

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Outsourcing seems to be the new mantra for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). Call it an effort to get better results, or neglecting its own parks and garden department by giving work of landscaping to a private contractor.

Posh tower to sprout at Aristovilla site, Jodhpur Crossroads

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Here’s interesting news for those who are hunting for high-end apartment schemes in Satellite or Shivranjani area. Venus Infrastructure Ltd, a city-based real estate company, is coming up with a high-end scheme with a commercial complex and retail stores, at Aristovilla bungalow society located near Jodhpur crossroads.
Interestingly, the developers bought this society by paying over [...]

ABG to set up Gujarat’s 1st maritime institute

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

The city of diamonds and textiles is set to add yet another feather in its cap by 2011. ABG Shipyard Limited, country’s largest private shipbuilder with its facility at Magdalla, is setting up Gujarat’s first state-of-the-art maritime institute on a sprawling 12 hectare land at Ichhapore.

Realty recovery: Premature to predict a bounce-back

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Residential markets across major cities of India have seen significant appreciation in values towards the close of 2009. This trend is most in NCR and Mumbai, the two key residential markets in India , where values in Oct-Dec 2009 appreciated , compared to the same period the year before, says Cushman and Wakefield in a [...]

Reddy seeks review of service tax on housing complexes

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

The urban development ministry will seek a review of the proposed service tax levy on sale of housing projects under construction. The levy has been proposed in Budget 2010-11.
“The urban development ministry feels the proposal of service tax needs review. I am recommending the review of the proposal,” Urban development minister Jaipal Reddy told [...]