Among the many factors influencing the way real estate is developed, transacted and used in India, there are five big major emerging trends that have both real-time and long-term significance. Co-working spaces finding favour With the growing start-up ecosystem across India and the central government creating an enabling environment for entrepreneurship, demand for office spaces matching such firms’ requirements has Read More

Tata Group will reach out more to consumers and tap digital opportunity to build upon the ‘foundation inherited’ by the company for the next 150 years, Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry has said. Ratan Tata was deeply involved in promoting a technology-oriented culture in the group. “The group chief technology officer’s role is to evangelise innovation within different group companies; Read More

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications today agreed to merge its wireless telecom business with smaller rival Aircel to create the country’s 4th-biggest mobile phone operator with asset base of more than Rs 65,000 crore (Rs 650 billion). In the largest consolidation in the country’s telecom sector, RCom and Aircel’s majority owner, Malaysia’s Maxis Communications Berhad (MCB), announced signing of definitive documents Read More

The Bombay high court, on Tuesday, asked Mumbai-based firm SGI Commex, which claims to have won the auction of Vijay Mallya’s luxury jet, to file an affidavit in response to a petition filed by Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), seeking taxes and hangar charges of Rs 3.95 crore. The aircraft is at present parked at Mumbai Airport and MIAL is Read More

Employees in India are getting ready for automated workplace as 63 per cent of workforce believes that machines will replace people for repetitive work. According to a study by ADP, a leader in Human Capital solutions, nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of employees in India believe automation, smart machines and artificial intelligence will replace people for repetitive work, and Read More

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, handed over land ‘parchas’ and cheques to the farmers in Singur even as she sent messages to firms saying any company willing to set up auto firm in the state is “welcome”. Handing over parchas and cheques following a Supreme Court order in this regard, Banerjee, who had steered the massive agitation Read More

One thing I learnt early enough in South Block was that as head of a territorial division, the success of a policy initiative almost always would lie in slipping it in innocuously when the superiors were overworked. Even if the idea were heretical, the chances of it finding habitation depended on the timing. That was how the saga of India’s Read More

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi met President Barack Obama at the White House on Wednesday on her first visit to the United States since her party won a sweeping victory in last year’s election, capping a decades-long journey from political prisoner to national leader. With Suu Kyi no longer an opposition figure, the United States is weighing a further easing Read More

Take a look. IMAGE: Rediff.com‘s Uttam Ghosh spotted this elaborate pookalam at Panvel railway station, Navi Mumbai. The pookalam is 55 to 60 feet in diameter informs Radhakrishnan, vice president of Keraliya Culture Society (established in 2007 in Raigad) and they have been doing this every year at the railway station. It took 1,500 kg of flowers to make the decoration Read More

Jamai Raja fame actress Sargun Mehta celebrated her birthday on September 8, when hubby Ravi Dubey threw a lavish party with the who’s who of the television industry in attendance. A look at the celebs who turned up to wish the birthday gal. Ravi Dubey arrives with his beautiful wife Sargun Mehta for the party. Karan Patel and his wife Ankita Read More