Paul J. Massey Jr., a millionaire real estate executive, took steps on Thursday toward running for mayor of New York City — styling himself in the mold of former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, as a wealthy businessman and an outsider to politics with the management chops needed to run the ... Read More »
The large bay windows offer a great view of nearby Squirtles, while the corner store downstairs is a great place to get eggs. Plus, it’s a PokéStop. Such talk is not just the stuff of comedy anymore as a growing number of real estate ads are noting Pokémon Go amenities ... Read More »
MUMBAI | BENGALURU: At least a quarter of India’s top-rated office space of 464 million sq ft is expected to get listed by 2019 with an estimated valuation of around $18 billion (Rs 1.2 lakh crore), according to a study. Large institutional investors in India’s commercial real estate are gearing ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: The Goods and Services Tax(GST) could bring in transparency in the functioning of the real estate sector and even reduce the cost of ownership of homes for buyers, especially if the GST rate is lower than all the current rates put together, said builders and tax consultants. These ... Read More »
The long-planned and oft-delayed Sandpiper pipeline through the U.S. Midwest may not be dead, but it appears to be on life support, a likely casualty of the oil-and-gas industry’s infrastructure overbuild amid a two-year global oil rout. After years of delays, refiner Marathon Petroleum Corp and midstream giant Enbridge Inc ... Read More »
It’s day zero of the Rio Olympic Games and as everyone knows, nothing screams “Win the discus!” more than watching a pop star get smothered in a parachute while dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow. Katy Perry’s video for Rise, her Olympics song released before the opening ceremony on Friday evening, ... Read More »
In order to prevent the destruction of fisheries, regulations limit the amount of fish that can be caught in Caribbean islands, but researchers fear ineffective methods of counting catches threaten to destroy marine life and the fishing industry. The number of fish caught in the Turks and Caicos Islands may ... Read More »
The World Health Organization is moving toward declassifying transgender identity as a mental disorder in its global list of medical conditions, with a new study lending additional support to a proposal that would delete the decades-old designation. The change, which has so far been approved by each committee that has ... Read More »
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is the principal public health body of the United Nations (UN) and it recently announced it is beginning to take steps to remove being transgender off its classification list of mental and behavioural disorders. This is a positive move, but I find it hard to ... Read More »
CHENNAI/ MANGALURU, AUGUST 2: J.K. Rowling’s new book and the last in the series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, was released worldwide midnight on Jul 31 at precise embargoed times. This is the first time a Harry Potter book has ever been printed in India (or indeed Asia), in ... Read More »
Shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb were hit hard in pre-market trading Friday after news that its blockbuster cancer drug failed a key clinical trial. The drug, called Opdivo, is one of a new set of drugs called immunotherapy. The drug targets the programmed cell death 1 (or PD-1) receptor to essentially ... Read More »
Agri-chemical giant Monsanto rejected another merger offer from Bayer on Tuesday, signaling it is open to proposals from other companies. After Bayer upped its offer from $62 to $65 billion, or $125 per share, Monsanto’s board unanimously rejected it, calling it “financially inadequate,” adding “Monsanto remains open to continued and ... Read More »
