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Eye-Care in summers – Dr. Mahipal S Sachdev

With summers come the scorching sun and its relentless heat, both of which do no good to you. Summer brings with it, its own share of problems.  While many of you may be grabbing for the sunscreen to protect your skin, it’s also as equally important to protect your eyes from the harmful effects of …

The Importance Of Market Research In Indian Real Estate

 Ashutosh Limaye, Head – Research & Real Estate Intelligence Service, JLL India There is a lot of opacity in India’s real estate market. The industry is highly fragmented, and availability of data/ information in the public domain is limited. Moreover, the real estate industry is very locally orientated and in India, with every market behaving …

Chennai Residential Prices Rose By More Than 2.2% In 2015

Average city-level price forecasted to rise by about 2% this year   Sarita Hunt, Managing Director – Chennai & Coimbatore, JLL India Known to be a market driven more by end-user demand than speculative investors, Chennai has never seen runaway price escalations unlike some of the more speculative markets in India. As the southern city …

User Experience Goes Well Beyond What’s on the Screen 

Michael Frendo, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Engineering, Polycom One of my personal pet peeves is the way the tech industry defines “user experience.” If you listen  closely, you’ll notice many identify that experience as only what is seen on screen.  We often hear a device or application has a “terrible UI” or that it …

How were MBA exams this entrance season –  Gautam Puri, Vice Chairman and MD, CL Educate, IIM B Alumnus

Like every year, even this year myriad management aspirants undertook the aspirational task of preparing for various management entrance exams. Like every year, the entrance exams threw a curve ball at the aspirants with varying levels of difficulty and considerable changes in the paper pattern as compared to the previous years. The MBA season starter …

Must have apps if you are preparing for Competitive Exams

In the last two decades, we have witnessed an evolution of mobile phones. They’ve moved on from simply being a means of communication to essentials. While parents considered phones as distractors in education, smartphones have changed this perception to being saviors. With a plethora of apps available in the Smartphone app stores, there exist a …