ravi karandeekar

"Apart from easing of key policy rates by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to make cheaper bank credit available to the industry as also provide home and car loans at lower rates of interest to boost the real estate and auto sectors, the package is likely to include specific fiscal incentives to help the exporting community and the labour-intensive industries such as textiles, leather, gems and jewellery and other handicraft products" - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"Indiabulls Real Estate announced that the High Court of Delhi has sanctioned the scheme of amalgamation of Indiabulls Power Services (IPSL) with Sophia Power" - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"The government is working on a fresh package of measures to stimulate various sectors of the economy which are facing a slowdown in the wake of the deepening global financial crisis.The stimulus package is to be announced by the end of this week" - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"Nothing’s changed. The below article was written in July 2006. We’re in Dec 2008 now and nothing’s really changed. We’ve had nearly 200 people killed and around 400 injured. Add loss of property as well." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"With the rupee depreciation with the dollar, Omaxe and other property developers in India plan to target the NRI buyers. NRIs can get a good deal now because of the recent depreciation of the rupees against the dollar. This would benefit NRI purchase around 20 percent. Property investment in India at this time could be a good deal. Prices have declined by 15 to 20 percent in last few weeks." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"DLF Ltd. and Unitech Ltd., India’s two largest property developers, were downgraded by Merrill Lynch & Co. on concern that sales will slow and prices will decline as the nation’s economic growth falters." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"In a bid to encourage lending to housing sector, which has been witnessing some slowdown over the past few months, RBI today relaxed provisioning and risk weight norms for Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs)." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"Senior Town and Country Planning officials maintain the government had to introduce the hike because of the steep appreciation in infrastructure costs. “The costs of laying infrastructure have gone up,” Town and Country Planning Director, Mr SS Dhillon said." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

""Sweden-based electronic products maker LAVA Electronics is in talks with real estate firms Ansal API, Omaxe and Parsvnath for a possible India entry through a franchisee arrangement. The LCD television maker, which gets 60% of its revenues from the B2B segment, is planning to sell its products to large hotel chains."" - ravi karandeekar

"Sweden-based electronic products maker LAVA Electronics is in talks with real estate firms Ansal API, Omaxe and Parsvnath for a possible India entry through a franchisee arrangement. The LCD television maker, which gets 60% of its revenues from the B2B segment, is planning to sell its products to large hotel chains." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"“If the government action does not help bring confidence back for foreign investors, we could see an impact on demand for commercial real estate putting further pressure on rents,” analyst Unmesh Sharma wrote in a note to clients today." - ravi karandeekar

"“If the government action does not help bring confidence back for foreign investors, we could see an impact on demand for commercial real estate putting further pressure on rents,” analyst Unmesh Sharma wrote in a note to clients today." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

The company is evaluating plans to offer homes with smaller ticket sizes of about 1,000 square feet at an average price of about Rs. 3,200 per square feet. - ravi karandeekar

"The company is evaluating plans to offer homes with smaller ticket sizes of about 1,000 square feet at an average price of about Rs. 3,200 per square feet." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"Good story!" - ravi karandeekar

"The demand for real estate in smaller cities and towns has plunged nearly 35 per cent in the first seven months of the current fiscal, as many realtors deferred their projects owing to higher borrowing costs. The sharp decline in demand for property was witnessed in Tier II and Tier III cities including Pune, Chandigarh and Bhopal." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

More than the tourism, in the present circumstances, politicians need your PR services. People of Mumbai are angry and media has taken a lead in the campaign against the all politicians. If one is watching what is going on in the media, he will focus on the brand India but on the people of India. - ravi karandeekar

Good advice for Pune real estate developers! - ravi karandeekar

"Following the recent terror attacks in Mumbai, Pune Customs officials and staff, deployed at the coastal areas of Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and Goa, have been asked to be more alert and keep a tight vigil on coastal activities, R Sekar, commissioner of customs, Pune, said." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"Pune bomb hoax Pune Police were left on tenterhooks on Monday after the control room received a bomb threat via fax threatening 40 explosions around the city. Pune Police carried an intense search operations all over the city including ICC tower at SB Rd" - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"What is most worrisome about this new modus operandi is that 10 terrorists were able to inflict so much damage, kill so many people and hold hostage an 18-million-people megalopolis for 60 hours. Imagine how much more horrible it could have been if they were 50, 100 or 500. The fact that the operation was so successful from the terrorists' point of view could give ideas to others to do the same in Europe, Africa or even the United States. In fact, Peter Clarke, the former head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism branch, warned that there was a real risk of a Mumbai-style massacre occurring in Britain. And who knows next time the terrorists might use a mix of tactics: simultaneous suicide bombings, car bombs and Mumbai style attacks. Unfortunately Islamist terrorists seem to always find a way to reinvent themselves." - ravi karandeekar

"Imagine taking a DJ to a funeral or U.S. President George W Bush taking Oliver Stone along to Ground Zero after the 9/11 attack. Would you call it inappropriate? I think the word doesn’t even begin to describe Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh’s actions on Sunday afternoon. On a visit to the ravaged Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai, he was accompanied by his son, actor Riteish Deshmukh, and filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma, both of them strolling around as if it were a normal walk in the park." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"The gunman captured during the attacks on Mumbai said he had undergone months of commando-style training in an Islamist militant camp in Pakistan, two senior officials involved in the investigation said. The training was organised by the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, and conducted by a former member of the Pakistani army, a police officer close to the interrogation said, on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to give his name." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

" A grainy cell-phone video obtained by CBS News shows the moments before police in Mumbai arrested the only living suspect in the 60-hour terror rampage that began last Wednesday and eventually left at least 170 people dead. The one-minute, 35-second video opens with images that apparently show bystanders and Indian security forces beating a man on the ground with sticks." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

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"A beleaguered Deshmukh landed himself in a fresh controversy yesterday as he visited the terror-hit Taj Mahal hotel along with film producer Ram Gopal Verma and Deshmukh's actor son Reitesh." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

"Pakistan threatened to redeploy troops from the Afghan border to the plains facing India, as charges escalated that terrorists who attacked Bombay planned and trained on Pakistani soil." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

Late Wednesday night, Mumbai, India found itself the target of a ferocious terrorist attack, and the situation remains unresolved even now, three days later. According to reports, upwards of 60 young men entered Mumbai in small inflatable boats on Wednesday night, carrying bags filled with weapons and ammunition, and spread out to nine locations to begin their attacks. Lobbing grenades and firing their weapons, they entered hotels, a railway station and several other buildings, killing scores and wounding even more. As of this moment, the identity of the attackers has yet to be definitively determined, though there are reports indicating some of the gunmen were Pakistani - at least nine of them have been killed, nine more arrested. As of this writing, there were a reported 151 people killed from 11 different countries - though nearly 100 were Indian. More than 300 injuries have also been reported - those numbers may yet rise as several hostage situations still exist in the city. (35... - ravi karandeekar

"Indian commandos took control of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai on Saturday morning after a three-day siege by terrorist fighters." - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet

Ccandles and flowers outside the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel on Sunday - ravi karandeekar via Bookmarklet