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Karnataka looks to build a tech bridge with Pravasi Divas

The Karnataka government is expecting to create multiple corridors with countries such as Portugal and Suriname whose top officials attended the event.




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8 Indian mutual fund houses that allow USA/Canada-based NRIs to invest

Most fund houses in India don’t allow NRIs from US and Canada because of the cumbersome compliance requirements under FATCA.




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Zoom, Xoom, Züm: Why does every startup sound fast now?

Startups are supposed to be very, very fast. They “move fast and break things,” they “hire fast, fire fast,” and they certainly fail fast. They have a magazine: Fast Company. They have a diet: intermittent fasting.




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How COVID-19 revealed a skewed power equation of the fashion value chain

With consumer outlets being shut, fashion brands and retailers have taken an enormous hit to their bottom line and cash reserves. But the worst hit were the factory workers, of which almost 85% are women, who typically earn below living wages and do not accumulate any savings.




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Silver lining for jobseekers as edtech, pharma, e-commerce, logistics sectors to continue hiring

The IT industry should see about half of the top ten IT services companies requiring fresh, top-rated tech talent, almost a third of the remaining services pool, and almost 15 to 18% of the high tech product / internet or GICs going for it.




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SCCM Pod-26 PCCM: Assessing Sedation Levels of Mechanically Ventilated Pediatric Patients

Martha Curley, RN, PhD, discusses her article in the Mar 2006 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, titled "State Behavioral Scale: A Sedation Assessment Instrument for Infants and Young Children Supported on Mechanical Ventilation." Dr. Curley, director of nursing research in critical care and cardiovascular nursing research at The Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, is a recognized expert in pediatric critical care nursing. She discusses the development and validation of the State Behavioral Scale, a tool used in the evaluation of the level of sedation in pediatric patients requiring mechanical ventilation. (Pediatric Care Medicine, Volume 7, Number 2 Mar 2006 pp 107-114)




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SCCM Pod-70 PCCM: Childhood Obesity and Severe Asthma

Christopher Carroll, MD, discusses an article published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine titled, "Childhood Obesity Increases Duration Of Therapy During Severe Asthma Exacerbations." Dr. Carroll is a pediatric intensivist at Connecticut Children's Medical Center. (Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2006:527-31)




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SCCM Pod-186 PCCM: Variability and Challenges in Pediatric Asthma

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, associate podcast editor, speaks with Susan L. Bratton, MD, MPH, about her paper published in the July Pediatric Critical Care Medicine




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SCCM Pod-200 PCCM: Mechanical Ventilation Use in Children with 2009 H1N1 Versus Seasonal Influenza

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Carl O. Eriksson, MD, MPH, lead author on an article published in the November Pediatric Critical Care Medicine




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SCCM Pod-203 PCCM: Using the Vanguard Phase in Clinical Trials

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Victoria L. Pemberton, RN, MS, about her article published in the January Pediatric Critical Care Medicine




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SCCM Pod-218 PCCM: Severity of Illness Assessment in Children

Margaret Parker, MD, FCCM, speaks with Murray M. Pollack, MD.




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SCCM Pod-238 Internet-Based Knowledge Exchange Platform for Pediatric Critical Care Clinicians Worldwide

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Traci A. Wolbrink, MD, MPH




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SCCM Pod-276 Pediatric Delirium and Associated Risk Factors

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Chani Traube, MD.




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SCCM Pod-277 Respiratory Dysfunction Associated With Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Critically Ill Children

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Guillaume Emeriaud, MD, PhD.




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SCCM Pod-280 Evolution of Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Use in the PICU

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Andrea Wolfler, MD




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SCCM Pod-288 The Use of Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices in Children's Hospitals

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Robert T. Mansfield, MD




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SCCM Pod-310 Evidence-Based Pediatric Outcome Predictors to Guide the Allocation of Critical Care Resources in a Mass Casualty Event

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Philip Toltzis, MD. Dr. Toltzis is Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.




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SCCM Pod-404 Population-Based Epidemiology and Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children

Margaret M. Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Rashid Alobaidi, MD, on his article titled Population-Based Epidemiology and Outcomes of Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children published in the January 2020 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.




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Poke Me: An unreasonable ratio between a company's lowest and highest salary can cause problems

Murthy’s long missive about the pay culture in Infosys echoes the pay reforms debate in advanced economies.




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No timeline fixed for release of e-commerce policy: Piyush Goyal

On February 23, 2019, the first draft of the National e-Commerce policy was placed in public domain for suggestions. Comments from over 120 stakeholders- companies both Indian and foreign, industry associations, think tanks, foreign governments were received. Post this, a series of meetings have been held with different stakeholders.




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Fitch cuts India growth forecast to 5.1% for FY'21 in wake of coronavirus outbreak

In its Global Economic Outlook 2020, Fitch said the number of people affected by coronavirus will keep rising in the coming weeks but that the outbreak will remain contained. However, there are downside risks to this scenario.




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ASSOCHAM recommends stimulus package of $200 to $300 billion to tide over the COVID-19 challenges

The chamber said that in keeping up with most economies of the world to institute stimulus measures with 10 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the Indian economy would need a transfusion of over $200 billion with an ability to go up to $300 billion, over the next 12-18 months.




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View: The grey areas in India's new FDI rules

It’s the lack of clarity that makes one wonder if the note was a knee-jerk reaction, or a well-thought-out strategy.




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Covid-19: Revival of economy through tax measures

The government (GoI) has so far been very supportive and empathetic towards businesses and was quick to respond through delayed application of few amendments introduced in Finance Act 2020 (FA 2020) along with relief measures on various tax and other statutory compliances announced subsequently.




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Financial Forecasting: Why it is still about being roughly right than precisely wrong

Paradoxically and fatally, just when risk of a downturn is at its highest, optimism also ends up peaking! So be careful with your forecasts; and even more careful with the forecasts of others.




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I can't risk lives of my policemen to manage crowd at liquor shops: Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava

Police should have welfare systems similar to the ones implemented by the armed forces, says Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava.




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ICICI Bank customers can withdraw cash at ATMs sans debit card. Here's how

The offering of ‘Cardless Cash Withdrawal’ from iMobile enables customers to withdraw cash securely and conveniently for everyday usage and purchases, all from the convenience of their mobile phone. Here is a look at how you can use this facility.




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Office realty leasing rises 30%, on track to beat last year high

Mumbai: Robust demand for office spaces has pushed commercial property leasing in the first three quarters of 2019 by 30% from a year ago, taking it closer to entire 2018’s performance and making sure that this year surpasses the peak touched last year.Driven by tech corporates — accounting for about a third of the leasing activity — office space take-up touched 47 million sq ft in the first nine months against entire 2018’s performance of 48.9 million sq ft, showed data from CBRE South Asia. With this, office leasing activity is now expected to touch its highest level ever, estimated to be over 60 million sq ft in 2019.Leasing activity stood at about 15.4 million sq ft during the quarter ended September, rising by nearly 23% on an annual basis. This was dominated by small- to medium-sized transactions. Small-sized transactions of less than 10,000 sq ft accounted for over 40% of the transaction activity in the quarter. 71641558 “With office leasing scaling a historic high in 2019, we expect further strengthening of occupier sentiment in the medium to long term, backed by corporates looking to expand or consolidate their operations. Favourable government initiatives, transparency in the real estate sector and the right reforms will improve investor sentiment greatly in the coming quarters,” said Anshuman Magazine, CEO, India, South-east Asia, Middle East and Africa, CBRE.Like last year, he expects occupiers would put in greater efforts to incorporate flexibility in their portfolios due to changes in the business environment. Occupiers continued to futureproof their portfolios and hedge against future rental escalations by pre-leasing space across various cities.Bengaluru, followed by Hyderabad, dominated large-sized deal closures, while a few large deals were also reported in the NCR and Pune as well. Large-scale deal closures were mostly dominated by tech firms and flexible space operators. Firms belonging to sectors such as research, consulting & analytics, banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI), and engineering & manufacturing also closed large-sized deals.Tech corporates led the office space take-up, followed by research, consulting & analytics companies (19%) and flexible space operators (15%). The rise in the share of flexible space operators (10% in the second quarter of 2019) was primarily a result of their continued expansion across almost all cities.“The share of the tech sector rose from 31% to 40% annually during 2019 year-to-date, which implies that a rise in technology alternatives, insourcing / job preservation in the US and a global slowdown have not had any specific impact on India’s position as a preferred outsourcing destination for both high-skilled and low-skilled tech services, research and development,” said Ram Chandnani, managing director, advisory & transaction services, India, CBRE South Asia.Supply addition rose by more than 80% in 2019 YTD on an annual basis, with about 43.5 million sq. ft. of development completions reported.Four cities — Hyderabad, Bengaluru, NCR and Mumbai — accounted for almost 80% of this supply addition.Compared to the first three quarters in 2018, the share of SEZs in supply dipped from 40% to 27% during 2019 YTD. Supply addition in the quarter also rose by about 6% on a quarterly basis, touching about 15 million sq. ft. More than 70% of this supply was driven by Hyderabad and NCR, followed by Bengaluru.




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EPFO eases norms for changing date of birth in records, linking UAN with Aadhaar

As per the circular, EPF members can now correct the date of birth up to plus or minus three years instead of one year earlier. This would make the linking of Universal Account Number (UAN) with Aadhaar easier.




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How to use ICICI Bank's voice banking services on Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant

To get the benefit of the voice banking offering, customers need to download the Alexa / Google Assistant and link their ICICI Bank account through a secure two-factor authentication process.




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Master of Memories

Dead souls are supposed to drink from this so as not to remember their past lives upon being reincarnated!




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Ash and Essence

Instead of using traditional fire-and-wick ceremonial lamps, the priests use muslin bags filled with ashes to worship the ritually decorated icon.




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Back to Basics

The tax and revenue department in Washington DC has added a 5.75% sales tax on all clubs, centres or gyms run for the purpose of physical exercise.




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Family finance: Kumars need to stagger some of their money goals till income increases

His goals include building an emergency corpus, saving for his children’s (including another child in future) education and weddings, and retirement.




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Use Excel's binomial distribution to assess chance of success of your investments

Applying this to financial markets helps investors to determine their chances of success in a fixed number of attempts (or trials). Another application of binomial distribution is to find out the probability of a company reporting positive growth in the EPS.




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Covid stress test: How easily can you liquidate your financial assets should the need arise?

Stores of value are worthwhile only if they can step up and be useful when we need them. Not if they also lose value, freeze up, or get locked when you must access them. In other words, you should be able to liquidate your assets without difficulty should the need arise.




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Conserving cash to dealing with debt: 6 ways you can fight the covid money crisis

Liquidating assets to pay off debts is recommended only if you find it difficult to pay EMIs.




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Family finance: Salaried Pendse has enough time to reach financial goals

His goals include building an emergency corpus, saving for his spouse’s business, child’s education and wedding, taking a vacation, and retirement.




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Family finance: Why Sharma will reach his financial goals with ease

Financial Planner Pankaaj Maalde suggests that Sharma build an emergency fund of Rs 5.1 lakh, which is equal to six months’ expenses, and a medical buffer of Rs 10 lakh for his mother. Here's what his financial goals include.




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Has coronavirus pushed your goals further away? Take this SWOT test to find out

No investment portfolio would have escaped the impact of coronavirus and the consequent financial troubles. Analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in your financial plan in the following quiz and find out where you stand and what you need to do.




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Why you should keep financial assets organised and listed while you are alive

We can do a lot without spending money, and money well spent can do a lot. Let your money help you and those around you live better. Rather than lying meaninglessly in expired bonds, unaccessed PPF accounts, unused vases and unworn dresses.




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Four ways to review and modify asset allocation in mutual funds

As the financial markets scenario is changing, it is important to review and modify (if needed) the existing asset allocation. However, before going ahead, you should consult your financial advisor.




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Sunday ET: Labour laws: Indians in Gulf forced to return or look for greener pastures

Back home, the workers are looking to start afresh. Their best bet seems to be rehabilitation packages.




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Weak currency makes Asia-Pacific cities cheaper for expats: Survey

In India, Mumbai has emerged as the most expensive city for expatriates and was ranked 118 in the Index. Last year Mumbai was ranked 114th on the list.




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New customs form for passengers coming to India from tomorrow

All passengers coming to India will have to fill in a new detailed customs form on their arrival from tomorrow.




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Over 3,500 Indians back from Iraq in last 30 days

There were about 10,000 Indians before the start of the serious strife between government troops and Sunni militants backed by al Qaeda in Iraq.




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Growing trend: NRIs return home to work as economy surges

The trend of Indians returning from abroad to work here has picked up pace with the recovery in the country's economy.




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10-year benchmark bond yields fall 14 bps more this week to hit levels last seen in 2009

A hike in taxes on fuels, which will add to government’s revenue, helped lift sentiment.




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​Debt, hybrid mutual funds see large outflows in April; advisors blame Franklin fiasco

The Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund fiasco seems to have hit the debt mutual fund space very hard. The data released by Association of Mutual Funds in India or Amfi reveals that most debt mutual fund categories have witnessed outflows in the last month.




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Young working professionals to cut down expenses as post-Covid world brings uncertainty, job loss

Categories like essentials, at-home entertainment, health and insurance continue to show greater resiliency.