ST JAMES, Jamaica (JIS) – State Minister for Education, Youth and Information, Floyd Green, has underscored the importance of adult education and lifelong learning to the growth and development of the Caribbean’s economies and people. Green noted that while the region boasts documented supporting research, countries must act to ensure ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: Taking a long-awaited step towards the realisation of Digital India, a high level committee (HLC) submitted its report for transformation of the National Informatics Centre, the technology infrastructure arm of the government. The Committee, which was headed by InfosysBSE 0.13 % co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, was constituted with the ... 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 »
We are all about IKEA when it comes to revamping our home style. There’s just something so magical about snagging ourselves some clean and simple Nordic designs with prices that are affordable AF. Just when we thought this budget-friendly wonderland had hit its peak, IKEA’s mini-collection collab with Walter Van ... Read More »
Saliq Ansari (28) is a proud father to six children — five daughters and one son — after his wife recently gave birth to triplets (two girls and a boy) at Cama Hospital. Though he is proud and happy with their bundles of joy, at the same time he is ... Read More »
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting and delivering a LiDAR workshop at the upcoming International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) XXIII Congress in Prague, Czech Republic. This quadrennial event brings together thousands of specialists in photogrammetry, remote sensing, and spatial information science ... Read More »
In the wake of rising cost burden of home buyers, comes a ray of hope in the form of a recent decision of the Delhi High Court in the case of Suresh Kumar Bansal Vs Union of India & Others 2016-VIL-284-DEL-ST. The High Court held that in a scenario where ... Read More »
DJI has made some serious improvements to its Geofencing No-Fly technology, which uses GPS location data to prevent hobbyist drone pilots from flying in restricted airspace such as airports or other areas that are not suitable for drone piloting. The company says it is doing its part to help prevent issues ... Read More »
The Fair Housing Act (the “Act”) unequivocally prohibits intentional discrimination by housing providers, but last year, the United States Supreme Court ruled that housing providers may run afoul of the Act, even absent the intent to discriminate. In the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in TX Dept. of Community Affairs v. ... Read More »
HYANNIS – Barnstable County Register of Deeds John Meade has compiled the latest sales numbers from June; Meade says they reflect a trend of the last several months where both volume and value increased. Sales volume was up 3.3% over June of last year and value was up 14% over the ... Read More »
New Delhi: Indian retail real estate has become attractive again for global investor as private equity (PE) investment in this segment has reached USD 149 million in the first five months of this year and likely to break previous record of 2008, according to property consultant JLL. During the entire ... Read More »
New Zealand has slipped down the ranks, now sitting at sixth in the world for real estate transparency. Two years ago, New Zealand was in fourth place, but the latest Global Real Estate Transparency Index by JLL shows the country is now in sixth place. JLL New Zealand head of research Justin Kean said the decline reflected improvements made by other nations, rather ... Read More »
