Author Archives: Loknath Das

Regulator Confronts Trusts About Real Estate Financing

A CBIRC official said the regulator will provide guidance to trust companies on a regular basis from now on. Photo: VCG A Chinese financial regulator has ordered 10 trust companies to ensure no growth in the outstanding amount of their real estate financing businesses at least through this year’s third quarter, Caixin has learned, as regulators worry about froth in Read More


AI Solutions: Making real estate firms smart

As a product, Edge is much more than a traditional CRM because it seamlessly links all the dots in the entire lifecycle of a sale, starting from lead generation and going beyond final closure and mortgage facilitation. Homegrown proptech firm Square Yards has introduced an Artificial Intelligence-enabled enterprise technology solution, called Edge, to empower the sales and distribution functions of Read More


Budget 2019: New education policy on anvil, says Sitharaman

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the government will bring a new national educational policy and ₹400 crore has been provided for world class institutions. Presenting the first Budget of the Modi government in its second term, she said a draft legislation for higher education commission will be presented. India has potential to become educational hub, she said while proposing Study Read More


Steel sector plays bigger role in boosting business sentiments – here’s how

In addition, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) conducts a periodic manufacturing sector survey to evaluate the business trends. Sushim Banerjee We have been talking on business sentiments being a primary influencing factor in driving growth parameters of the economy. A country where this index is positive as indicated by higher expectations of order generation to generate revenue flows, the downward Read More


What real estate industry expects from Budget 2019?

NEW DELHI: Indian real estate industry, which is reeling under the pressure of liquidity crisis and slump in home buyer’s confidence, is expecting the union budget 2019, to be presented on 5th July, to give much required impetus to the slow-moving sector. Few of the major expectations of the industry are: No cap for loss from house property: The limit set-off for Read More


Enterprises need to plan for deepfake technology

The new AI-based technology known as deepfakes allows people to produce or alter video content so that it presents something that didn’t, in reality, occur. Although there may be some practical and positive uses of deepfake technology — an effort to help people with ALS is an example — the nefarious uses of deepfakes have politicians and technology executives rattled. Deepfakes may have been Read More


How Baseball Teams Are Using Technology To Change The Game

Rapsodo have produced a range of pitching and hitting monitors RAPSODO In 2002, Oakland Athletics changed baseball with their much-lauded “sabermetrics” approach, bringing data into the game in a way never seen before. Now, 17 years on, clubs are taking the next step in using data on the baseball field, able to track and measure every facet of a game in Read More


B’luru in top 10 APAC cities for real estate investment

For the first time, Bengaluru has been ranked among the top ten global cities in the Asia Pacific region for cross-border investment in the real estate sector. The investment in the city’s real estate sector has doubled to $1.6 billion in FY19 compared with $800 million in the previous fiscal, a survey by global real estate consultancy CBRE South Asia Read More


Budget 2019 | Reviving real estate market: Here’s how Modi govt can make REITs attractive

Union Budget 2019: It is that time of the year when every man on the street has high hopes. There are high expectations on what the Government proposes to do with a powerful instrument it has launched to propel growth. The instrument also holds the potential to increase the spending power in the hands of the common man. At the same Read More


Stock market update: Realty shares bullish; Indiabulls Real Estate up 2%

NEW DELHI: Most realty shares were trading in the positive zone in Tuesday’s morning session. Shares of Indiabulls Real Estate (up 2.31 per cent), SobhaNSE 0.26 % (up 0.76 per cent) and DLFNSE 0.86 %(up 0.58 per cent) were trading higher. Oberoi Realty (up 0.54 per cent), Godrej Properties (up 0.36 per cent) and Prestige Estates Projects (up 0.13 per cent) too were Read More