Real estate investment is guided by the quality of physical and social infrastructure in and around a neighbourhood, says Arvind Jain

With the first phase of the Metro Rail to be operational soon, Nidhi Adlakha and Vishal Menon ask residents if the consequent real estate price rise is justifiable, considering other infrastructure remains unimproved

Chennai requires a higher Floor Space Index to make housing affordable, reduce costs and raise building flexibility, say developers.

What precautions should a prospective buyer of property take?

Dos and don’ts of property negotiation

There is no guarantee that the project you have invested in will be executed within the given timeframe.

Integrated townships function as distinct and cohesive neighbourhoods

It’s always better to get the approximate cost of the property in which you would be investing

Keep in mind the developer’s reputation and market standing before investing

The two-day NAR-India Convention in Bengaluru beginning today will bring in 1,200 delegates from 44 countries where real estate professionals and industry experts will interact to see India adopt the best practices.

The 7th conclave of National Association of Realtors held in Bengaluru dispels gloom and calls for remaining alive to the needs of the emerging younger clientele.

The scope for realty marketing through social media platforms is unlimited.

This is the best time to buy or build your dream home, says Sonal Sachdev

Home buyers are now going the extra mile and investing in high-end, luxury amenities.

The future of investing online is here.

2015 has been a favourable year for the real estate industry in many ways

The New Year should hopefully see an elimination of bottlenecks and hurdles for legal construction.

The interest rate is most likely to keep oscillating, and prudence in investment is advocated.

When it comes to buying a home, the Indian millennia’s appetite for risk is at its lowest point, says Arvind Jain

Bengaluru has seen the highest surge in real estate activity and the return on investment is high compared to other cities

From a real estate sector standpoint, almost all segments are expected to benefit from the Union Budget proposals, says Shrinivas Rao

We list the online services offered by the Registration Department in the State

13 km covered in just 14 minutes from Victoria Hospital to M.S. Ramaiah Hospital in Bengaluru

Young adults, who grew up in stable families with quality parental relationships, more likely to have healthy diet, activity and sleep behaviours, and less likely to be obese.

Philanthropist says underbelly of the healthcare system was starkly visible during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we run the risk of collective amnesia as we come out of it

Tracing India’s surgical history through the memoirs of a pioneering doctor

Data show that the rise in cases recorded between December 2021 and mid-January 2022 in India (dubbed as the Omicron wave) was in most part due to the BA.2 sub-lineage

MIT professor Xuanhe Zhao said the development could open a new era of wearable imaging.

Indian vaccine manufacturers and regulators have changed the way they conceive, test and evaluate vaccines, emboldening them to apply emerging technologies to old diseases and experiment with new ways to inoculate

Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee takes readers on an inward journey to discover the building blocks and their place in the human body

Her blood-testing startup claimed to revolutionise testing by detecting hundreds of medical conditions from just a few drops of blood 

India aims to eliminate healthcare disparities across the globe via Medical Value Travel (MVT) under its G20 presidency this year. Here’s a look at India’s plan to become a medical tourism hub

How visually impaired MTEs Ayeesha Banu and Noorunnissa, as Medical Tactile Examiners, are transforming the lives of women by examining and educating them on the importance of early diagnosis for breast cancer talk about how life took them on an unexpected journey.

Treatment for six rare disease patients in Karnataka, under the Centre’s grant of ₹50 lakh each, was stopped recently because the funding limit had been reached. Afshan Yasmeen The Hindu speaks to patients and families and takes an overview of the treatment scenario

None of us will ever be able to read all the articles and blog posts we had like to, and RSS feeds can be an incredible source of information overload. WebWorkerDaily highlights tools and tricks that can help make RSS more relevant.

We have waxed lyrical about Yahoo! Pipes before and how Pipes can create a master feed, fetching all your news feeds and filtering them, but the topic is well worth a revisit.

With a particular emphasis on making the flow of information more manageable and more relevant to you, GigaOms collaboration blog WebWorkerDaily singles out Yahoo! Pipes for its robust filtering by various criteria and PostRank, a service that gets the top posts (by engagement score) from a particular feed. You can use PostRank and Yahoo! Pipes together to find only the most popular posts from your favorite blogs and then filter them by your keywords.

Verizon Business today released findings from a recent survey, Small Business Response to COVID-19 to better understand the impact small business owners and decision makers feel COVID-19 has had on their businesses. The survey, conducted by Morning Consult, focused on 500 small and medium businesses that are currently open or plan to reopen. One of the survey’s key results is that small businesses have renewed confidence, with 68% believing they can recoup COVID-19 related losses.

Key Survey Findings:

As businesses grapple with the economic impact of COVID-19, these responses highlight the assistance small businesses feel they need, the communities they feel most supported by, and the changes they have made to adjust to the new normal.

1. A Renewed Confidence
The small businesses that have weathered this pandemic to date express an overall optimism and the financial wherewithal to eventually reopen.

68% of small businesses believe they can recoup COVID-19 related losses
46% (nearly half) of small businesses that remain open say their businesses will be able to stay open for more than six months if the pandemic continues in the same way
48% of small businesses say it’s unlikely they will need to resume operations with a smaller staff
While 78% of small businesses indicate declining sales, less than a quarter (24%) say that they have missed or withheld any payments of bills (rent, utilities, etc.).

It was back in 1999 that RSS feeds originated as a way of getting an overview of new articles and blog posts. They are still around today and can still be useful if you want to tailor and streamline your reading content.

RSS feeds can be used to bundle news from any number of websites within a program, browser extension or app. The only requirement is that the pages must support the.rss or.xml file extensions.

The advantage of RSS feeds and readers is that not only are they often free of charge, they also reduce your data use, as only a section of the article is loaded, Neuhetzki says.

In addition, the user does not have to provide personal information such as an email address or register in order to use a feed.

Social distancing measures amid the coronavirus pandemic have been rather difficult for everyone. While people remain locked indoors, social media companies offer huge respite from boredom that often becomes unbearable.

These companies have not only welcomed new users over the past couple of months but also have taken many steps to ensure engagement and good browsing experience. Let us thus take a look at how these companies have performed since the pandemic broke out and the factors likely to push them ahead.

3 Social Media Stocks That Gained Despite the Odds

Topping the list of social media companies are Facebook, Inc. FB, Twitter, Inc. TWTR and Snap Inc. SNAP that have fared well during the pandemic. Shares of these three giants have returned decently so far this year and year-over-year revenue growth impressed in recently released results.

The rise of social media has changed the information landscape in myriad ways, including the manner in which many Americans keep up with current events. In fact, social media is now among the most common pathways where people – particularly young adults – get their political news.

A new Pew Research Center analysis of surveys conducted between October 2019 and June 2020 finds that those who rely most on social media for political news stand apart from other news consumers in a number of ways. These U.S. adults, for instance, tend to be less likely than other news consumers to closely follow major news stories, such as the coronavirus outbreak and the 2020 presidential election. And, perhaps tied to that, this group also tends to be less knowledgeable about these topics.

Through several surveys over the last nine months, the Center’s American News Pathways project has been exploring the connection between Americans news habits and what they hear and perceive about current events. One important aspect of this project is taking a deeper look at the pathways, or platforms, Americans use most often to access news – such as news websites or apps, social media, local, cable and network TV, radio, or print.

As of late last year, 18% of U.S. adults say they turn most to social media for political and election news. That is lower than the share who use news websites and apps (25%), but about on par with the percent who say their primary pathway is cable television (16%) or local television (16%), and higher than the shares who turn to three other pathways mentioned in the survey (network TV, radio and print).

When you want to subscribe to a podcast, it is usually as easy as clicking a link—often a link labeled Add to Apple Podcasts or to another popular podcast app, like Castro, Overcast, and Pocket Casts.

However, I increasingly find that a benefit of membership to editorial sites, many kinds of creators’ patronage campaigns, and subscription podcast networks includes a custom podcast feed tailored to you or only available to members. In order to prevent this feed from becoming widely distributed, it is sometimes made not quite as easy to add through a single click.

Get the Podcast URL
The plainest form of the URL, and the one that typically works reliably across all apps and services, starts with http:// or https:// and often ends with .rss. Custom feeds may instead end with a long code. For custom, paid, or membership feeds, the feed may be the only link or may be labeled as Subscribe via RSS.