ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday showed its intention to retreat from its stance of taxing gains from the property business at fair market value and constituted a committee of stakeholders to find a solution after property transactions came to a halt. The committee would comprise real estate agents, representatives of the ... Read More »
Salt Lake City — (KUTV) The eighth case of Zika virus has been reported in Utah. This most recent case has health experts stumped. Officials say the patient has recovered, but they’re not sure how they contracted the disease. Previously experts have told the American public that Zika is passed ... Read More »
Several hundred supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have gathered in Istanbul for the fifth straight day to rally behind the leader who survived the weekend’s military coup. The protesters on Tuesday called for the reinstatement of the death penalty. They chanted “we want executions!” Erdogan has said Turks ... Read More »
Pakistan’s leading cement producer, Lucky Cement Limited, is investing Rs. 20 billion for establishing a new, fully integrated green field cement manufacturing plant. Lucky Cement is already operating two plants in the country, one at Pezu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one in Nooriabad, Karachi. In these areas, Lucky Cement is not ... Read More »
Britain’s second-biggest estate agent has warned annual profits will be well below expectations, blaming uncertainty in the property market caused by the vote to leave the EU. In an unscheduled trading update, LSL Property Services, whose brands include Your Move and Marsh & Parsons, said business slowed in the run-up ... Read More »
Reston, VA – In-Plant production pros will have plenty to choose from when GRAPH EXPO 16 welcomes show visitors to the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, September 25-28, 2016. For these print pros who will come seeking new growth strategies and ways to manage their costs and improve efficiencies, ... Read More »
In last week’s Notebook, we predicted that multifamily property sales in the Twin Cities metro are likely to eclipse last year’s record for total sales volume and that many of those deals are by well-funded national investment firms. Aeon, a Twin Cities nonprofit organization, has also been an active and ... Read More »
Noting that factors like globalisation, economy and technology have changed the entire landscape of legal education in the country, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said super-specialisation in law would be in vogue in times to come. “Between three-pronged factors — globalisation, economy and technology — the entire landscape of ... Read More »
Ford has introduced new technologies into its new Ford Everest SUV to prevent fatal crashes. According to the WHO’s Global status report on road safety for 2015, reflecting information from 180 countries, the total number of road traffic deaths worldwide has reached 1.25 million per year since 2007. The latest ... Read More »
Innovation centres have been popping up around China and are set to more than double to nearly 5,000 in the next five years, according to internet research firm iiMedia. The only problem for local governments is that entrepreneurs are not moving in. Many centres are in small Chinese cities or ... Read More »
At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing one human genome every 15 minutes at a cost of under $2,000 per genome. The whole operation fits comfortably in three rooms. Back in 2000, when its founder, J. Craig Venter, ... Read More »
Margaret Kirkland, who participated in this year’s Southern Living Idea House, is an interior designer based in Atlanta. She was recently selected as one of the designers for 2016 Southern Living Idea House. Known for her timeless interiors, she has been named a Next Wave designer by House Beautiful and ... Read More »
