http://apartment-bangalore.com Information about Apartments in Bangalore Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:01:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Government has sought to hike the penalty amount on all types of offenses, including tampering of meter, connection to the Board sewer without  permission, execution of work by any person other than a licensed plumber and constructing a building without drains. The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage and Certain other ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/government-has-sought-to-hike-the-penalty-amount-762.html A week after the Budget made homes more expensive by imposing a service tax of 10% on the cost of construction, banks are now ratcheting up interest rates by 0.25-0.50%. Bankers say they expect rates to rise by another 0.25-0.50% after two-three months when the Reserve Bank ups rates in ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/buying-a-home-and-home-loans-get-pricier-758.html Last week’s blaze in Carlton Towers Bangalore has taught many lessons not just for the BBMP but all other departments.The State Government is now planning to make it mandatory for owners of high-rises to submit annual affidavits to the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) certifying that all safety mechanisms are ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/submiting-annual-affidavits-mandatory-for-owners-of-high-rises-755.html A fire broke out on seven-storey Carlton Towers on the Old Airport Road. Tuesday's fire at the Carlton Towers Bangalore has once again brought into focus safety in high-rise buildings and the responsibilities of the owners/occupants concerned. "Tuesday’s fire at Carlton Towers was due to negligence and was a violation of ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/carlton-towers-has-once-again-brought-into-focus-safety-in-high-rise-buildings-751.html Hike in power tariff may propotionally increase your water bills as BWSSB has written to government for hike in water tariff. In order to meet BWSSB's increasing monthly expenditure on power charges,BWSSB has written to the government asking for a proportional hike in the water tariff. In case the government approves ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/hike-in-power-tariff-may-proportionally-increase-in-your-water-bills-748.html Bangalore police arrested Manivannan, director of Chennai-based JBJ City Developers in connection with a Rs 20-crore scam in Tamil Nadu and a Rs 7-crore land scam in Bangalore. The case came to light when people complained that JBJ City Developers had collected money for land and then failed to allot ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/jbj-city-developers-was-arrested-in-connection-with-land-scam-743.html State bank of India one of leading banks in India will organize a three-day ‘SBI Loan Utsav'. The SBI loan utsav 2010 starts on Friday 19,2010 on 4 pm at its local head office campus on St Mark’s Road. While announcing that the bank will offer spot loans at an interest ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/sbi-loan-utsav-2010-starts-today-737.html The BBMP is planning to restart collecting betterment charges, which was stopped five years ago. To bail out the BBMP from the financial crunch, the government planned to bring the Sakrama scheme, which was turned down by Governor Hansraj Bhardwaj. Now the BBMP has recommended the collection of development fees ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/get-ready-to-pay-the-betterment-charges-from-june-732.html According to an estimate, nearly 2.5 lakh property owners have not paid their property tax for 2008-09 and 2009-10. Now, the civic authority plans to do a door-to-door survey to issue notices to the defaulting property owners and make them pay the dues.The demand notice will give them 15 days ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/bbmp-to-issue-notice-to-defaulting-property-owners-for-2008-09-and-2009-10-721.html Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) appears to have opened a new window of employment to plumbers, who are in huge demand.There are approximately 60,000 houses which need to implement the system in Bangalore by May 2010, and 8,000 of them have already implemented it, according to BWSSB. Each project can cost from Rs ... http://apartment-bangalore.com/rainwater-harvesting-opened-a-new-window-of-employment-to-plumbers-713.html