Government incentives to boost the residential real estate sector, especially budget housing, may push housing credit growth to 17-19 per cent in the current fiscal year, according to a report. Government incentives to boost the residential real estate sector, especially budget housing, may push housing credit growth to 17-19 per cent in the current fiscal year, according to a report. Read More

War profiteers, terror financiers and drug traffickers sanctioned by the US in recent years have used Dubai’s real-estate market as a haven for their assets, a new report released on Tuesday alleges. The report by the Washington-based Center for Advanced Defense Studies, relying on leaked property data from the city-state, offers evidence to support the long-whispered rumours about Dubai’s real-estate boom. Read More

Earlier this month, Huawei introduced the Watch 2 smartwatch with an eSIM and voice call support. Now, a new development claims that the company is procuring OLED displays from Samsung. The South Korean giant is said to have already sent out samples to Huawei, and if all goes well, full scale production is expected to start by Q3 2018. The smartphone to sport these 6.9-inch Read More

India may cut down on issuance of shorter-maturity bonds, a senior government official said, as a drop in prices on the securities in the secondary market prompts investors to demand higher yields at auctions. “While subscriptions have been there, the yields on the shorter end are higher than our expectations,” economic affairs secretary Subhash Garg said in an interview in Read More

Almost 90% of those who applied for the undergraduate courses in the Delhi University (DU) this year come from the CBSE, followed by Uttar Pradesh and Haryana boards, according to official data released on Monday. This year, 278,574 candidates applied for admission in the UG courses in across 60-plus colleges of the DU during the registration process carried out between Read More

New York, June 11 (IANS) Researchers have demonstrated that a programme aimed at helping people modify lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise is as effective as medication at reducing blood pressure. The study, presented at the Nutrition 2018 meeting in Boston, suggested that the participants saw their blood pressure drop 19 points, on average, after taking part in a Read More

London: Using smartphone apps that promote a healthy lifestyle can help slow artery ageing by improving compliance to a proper diet and physical activity, suggest researchers. Arteries harden with age, increasing the risk of atherosclerosis and subsequent cardiovascular disease. Good eating habits, smoking cessation and physical exercise are known to prevent atherosclerosis. “We found that a healthy lifestyle smartphone app, added to brief Read More

Photo: iStock Last month, when model-turned-actor and one of India’s most well-known faces for endurance sports, Milind Soman, went on his honeymoon, his Instagram timeline was continuously being updated with pictures of the couple in Hawaii. However, instead of the romantic honeymoon pictures, such as candlelit dinners and sunsets, they showed off their active lifestyle, with Soman posting pictures of Read More

Sometimes you pay Rs 2,000 a month thinking that the money paid will motivate you to get to the gym. And at times, after paying the money, a month goes by and you realise you’ve just visited the gym twice. Maybe you find the gym routine boring or maybe you just aren’t getting enough time to go there. However, it Read More

Performing chest compressions in time with the beats of the international 90s hit song La Macarena can improve the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), say scientists. Improving the quality of compressions performed during CPR can increase the chance of survival. Researchers from the University of Barcelona and Universitat Autonoma Barcelona in Spain compared the effectiveness of a smartphone metronome application, and a musical mental Read More