This month, the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 was notified. It intends to route unaccounted money into the financial system, and seize benami properties while prosecuting those involved with such properties. Its objective are: amending the definition of benami transactions, establishing adjudicating authorities and setting up an appellate tribunal ... Read More »
Four coding boot camps, three companies offering other alternative-education offerings, and the global conglomerate General Electric were chosen on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education to participate in a new experiment that will allow eight colleges to offer Pell Grants and federal student loans to as many as 1,500 ... Read More »
The volume of real estate investments in Romania reached EUR 359 million in the first six months of this year, three times higher compared to the same period last year. It was one of the highest levels of investment in real estate in the last six years, according to a ... Read More »
China can improve its higher education system by introducing incentives for students and teachers so they take learning more seriously, a Stanford professor says. Under the current system, college students are essentially guaranteed a diploma, offering little motivation to excel. Prashant Loyalka, a center research fellow at the Rural Education ... Read More »
Especially in the U.S. Chinese invested $16.1 billion in overseas real estate in the first half of the year, more than double the amount in the same period last year, real estate consultancy CBRE said on Thursday. The United States remained the most popular globalproperty market for Chinese investors, while ... Read More »
Labour says it would restore grants to help young people in England stay in further and higher education. This would mean a return for education maintenance allowances (EMA) scrapped by the coalition government in 2010. It would also mean reversing the decision to turn maintenance grants for poorer university students ... Read More »
Online real estate portals are working on a rating system for brokers to enhance user experience and bring more accountability into the dealer community. While Makaan.com (Elara Technologies Pte Ltd) has already introduced such a system, Quikr.com (Quikr India Pvt. Ltd) has a basic user rating option and is planning ... Read More »
Labour has pledged to reintroduce student maintenance grants and the educational maintenance allowance – both scrapped by Conservative-led governments – if it returns to power. The party said that reintroducing grants for poorer students would be an “investment” and would be paid for by increasing corporation tax “by less than ... Read More »
Hyderabad residential and commercial real estate markets are on revival path and the city is expected to show more growth on the back of government’s infrastructure steps and policy moves. A report by realty consultant JLL said that sales in residential realty market in the city is likely to pick ... Read More »
Today, students up and down the country are anxiously discovering their A-level results. For the majority, their future depends on the grades they achieve – their place at university, or possibly their first full-time job. Some would have you believe students’ success depends solely on their individual grit, determination, and ... Read More »
The real estate regulatory law should be implemented in such a manner that it encourages entrepreneurs to enter this sector and does not hinder growth of projects, DLF Chairman K P Singh has said. In a message to shareholders, Singh said effective implementation of innovative initiatives such as Make in ... Read More »
Don’t say Billings, MT, lacks panache—you just need to know where to look. Your first stop on the style watch: This 2,048-square-foot penthouse located smack-dab in the middle of downtown. Listed for just $335,000, the two-bedroom apartment offers the streamlined décor and international flair of über-luxe apartments in larger cities. But with a 360-degree ... Read More »
