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Thursday, September 4, 2025
TopicUrban Housing

Topic: Urban Housing

Centre directs states to amend tenancy law, cut stamp duty to get benefits under Awas Yojana-Urban 2.0

Risha Chitlangia -
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.

Highway upgrade, droughts in one state affect housing demand in another, study shows

Arnab Dutta -
Researchers from Southern California and Manchester universities studied Census data to look at urban India's response to migration-induced housing demand.

Rental housing in India is so broken, tenants and landlords are even teaming up in Delhi

Mukta Naik -
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.

4 challenges Model Tenancy Act must overcome to provide affordable housing

Manish -
An enabling environment requires a supportive ecosystem, which the current version of Modi govt's Model Tenancy Act is unable to provide.

Migrant workers, students could get houses on rent for Rs 1,000/month under Modi govt plan

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Modi govt to offer nearly 1 lakh vacant rental housing units built under UPA-era schemes like JNNURM, RAY to construction workers, labourers, students, among others.

Urban affairs ministry demands 4 times more funds for states to overcome losses due to GST

Moushumi Das Gupta -
Ministry says with entertainment tax, advertisement tax and other such taxes subsumed into GST, some municipalities struggling to generate income.

Mumbai wants to go as high as Tokyo & New York but where’s the infrastructure on the ground?

Manasi Phadke -
Maharashtra govt to allow more growth on a given plot area, and let affordable housing be built in former No-Development Zones and salt pan land.

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Opinion

Counter-insurgency is Indian military’s reality. Op Sindoor was brief flash in combat spectrum

Manvendra Singh -
The Chief of Defence Staff was spot on when he declared war fighting as ‘military’s bread and butter.’

Superman Modi to superpower meeting — Indian TV anchors script a Tianjin blockbuster

Why India should let the rupee fall

Economy

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Defence

Choppy ride for India’s submarine ambition: Project P-751 chugs forward, Scorpenes a stinging tale

Snehesh Alex Philip -
With P75I still years away & the follow-on Scorpenes stuck, India’s long-promised 30-yr submarine plan remains behind schedule

National Interest

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

Shekhar Gupta -
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.

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