Category «Features»

Kolkata Real Estate – A Real-time Update

Santhosh Kumar, Vice Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants   One of the interesting new trends in Kolkata’s residential real estate market has been the entry of new players. The capital values of residential realty have seen a price increase in Q4-2017 ranging from 2-3% as compared to Q3-2017.  A number of upscale multi-storied projects were …

Asia and the Middle East lead rising trend in arms imports, US exports grow significantly, says SIPRI

(Stockholm, 12 March 2018) Continuing the upward trend that began in the early 2000s, the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2013-17 was 10 per cent higher than in 2008-12, according to new data on arms transfers published today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) at www.sipri.org. The flow of arms increased to …

Jacobs University of Bremen and SMS group kick off joint research and development project

Development of innovative dynamic planning and optimization processes as part of a digitalization offensive Jacobs University of Bremen and SMS group kick off joint research and development project As part of its digitalization offensive, SMS group (www.sms-group.com) has kicked off a research and development project on intelligent production planning in coopeation with Jacobs University of …

Sexual harassment is the biggest equality issue facing women around the world and in India – Ipsos Survey on International Women’s Day

  Mumbai, March 07, 2018: Sexual Harassment has emerged as the biggest equality issue facing women globally and in India, close on the heels are other distressing issues of sexual violence, domestic abuse, physical violence, sexualisation of women and girls in media, etc. To mark International Women’s Day, and in the wake of the #metoo …

Kidney Disease and Women: Dr. Pallavi Patri, Consultant – Nephrologist, Columbia Asia Hospital Whitefield

Bangalore, 7  March 2018: March 8th this year, coincidentally marks two important global campaigns – International Women’s Day and World Kidney Day. The theme therefore, ascribed to this year’s World Kidney Day is the burden and impact of kidney disease on women.  Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD – when the damage to the kidneys is irreversible) …

Truecaller Insights Reveals: 1 out of 3 Women in India Receives Sexual & Offensive Calls or SMS

Truecaller Insights Women’s Day report reflects why women in India facing harassment must ‘Call It Out’ New Delhi, 7th March 2018: Joining the worldwide celebrations of International Women’s Day, Truecaller today released its most comprehensive report yet, titled Understanding the Impact of Harassment & Spam Calls on Women. The report looks into the state of …

Edutech- the future of Indian Education system

– Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head of TCS iON, a Tata Consultancy Services unit focused on education, Assessment Boards and SMBs   The Indian education sector is witnessing a continuous transformation brought about by technology and these variations are influencing its key stakeholders in multifarious ways. From helping students to learn more and better anytime anywhere, …

Sales Domain has the potential to create 2.5 million jobs Over the next 3 years -states TeamLease

  ~10 regulatory reforms can create 10 million sales jobs~   Bangalore, March 06, 2018:  While manufacturing accounted for the bulk of jobs created in some of the developed countries, the potential to spearhead India’s transition from farm-to-non-farm -jobs is with sales domain states TeamLease analysis. Sales domain has the potential to create 2.5 million …