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PRACTICAL AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS WILL TACKLE DEFINING CHALLENGES OF OUR ERA – LEADING ARCHITECT

Cityscape Conferences to highlight innovative solutions in architecture Dubai, UAE; 5 August 2017: Reducing a building’s energy consumption and emissions by furthering technological advancements in design, materials and construction techniques are vital to developing Dubai’s future buildings, according to the Head of Region at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Speaking ahead of his presentation at …

Our Solar System’s “shocking” origin story

Washington, DC— According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave from an exploding supernova. The shock wave injected material from the exploding star into a neighboring cloud of dust and gas, causing it to collapse in on itself and form the Sun and its surrounding planets. New work …

71 Years of Independent India – The Real Estate Milestones

Ashutosh Limaye, National Director – Research, JLL India Often, how a particular industry shapes up depends on government’s initiatives and interventions – largely done through new sector-specific policies as well as tweaking older ones to better suit the changing business environment. While the government’s role is important, it is the market conditions, geopolitical events, socio-economic …

Azure sow, so shall you reap!

If you are late for three days in a month, at Azure, they don’t deduct a day’s salary, as the generally accepted norm goes. Instead, the salary cheque is withheld for the number of days one attends office late. Pretty radical and one should hasten to add, effective as hell. It is just another example …

Fortify, scale-up life-saving tobacco control measures across South-East Asia Region

By Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia More people than ever before are covered by life-saving tobacco control policies, including in the South-East Asia Region. That’s one of the findings of a new WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, which documents how 63% of the world’s population is now covered …

A Closer Look at Boutique Luxury Homes

Anuj Puri, Chairman – ANAROCK Property Consultants With the revival in Indian residential real estate well underway, it is pertinent to turn our attention to which formats have been in high demand at every given juncture. Such awareness is primarily useful from an investor’s point of view, but anyone who tracks Indian real estate out …

Could cocktail geoengineering save the climate?

Washington, DC— Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various theoretical ideas for altering Earth’s energy balance to combat climate change. New research from an international team of atmospheric scientists published by Geophysical Research Letters investigates for the first time the possibility of using a “cocktail” of geoengineering tools to reduce changes in both …

Hyderabad witnesses 50% hike in property seekers; 10% gradual price increment in April-June 2017: Sudhir Pai, CEO, Magicbricks

With a 50% hike in the number of property seekers over the past 12 months, Hyderabad has emerged as one of the best real estate destinations in the last one year in India both for end-users and investors, said Mr. Sudhir Pai, CEO, Magicbricks during a roundtable discussion here on Saturday Quoting the latest Consumer …

Azure: the colour of creativity

I was all of 22 when I had joined Azure, many summers back. An almost fresh graduate who had already worked in two reputed agencies, I too, had stars in my eyes, literally. A job to me meant economic independence – monthly pay cheques that would “empower” me to buy all those shoes I had …