According to Magicbricks Rental Index, average rental rates rose 17.1% year-on-year in Q2 across 13 major cities. But experts say housing market may be stabilising post-COVID.
The housing & urban affairs ministry, which released the PMAY-U 2.0 guidelines this month, has imposed strict deadlines for states/UTs to implement about 15 urban reforms by June 2025.
The Affordable Rental Housing Complexes (ARHC) scheme aimed to convert 83,534 flats into rental units for urban poor and migrants. It has met only a fraction of this target since 2020.
As companies call back employees to work post pandemic, rent up by 15-20 per cent as against pre-pandemic levels & as high as 30 per cent in some residential localities.
Cases like Najma vs Govt. of NCT Of Delhi at the Delhi High Court make it quite clear that housing and social protection policies need urgent intervention.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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