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    Indians prefer Second Hand properties over New!

    by Kaushambi

    A survey by Track2Realty has found that Indian home buyers are more interested in buying ready-to-move in properties rather than new and incomplete projects. The survey targeted the upper and middle class home buyers in 10 cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Pune, Kochi, Patna and Chandigarh.

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    How well do you know Indian North-eastern states? [Survey]

    by Kaushambi

    Can you name all the states that fall within the title The Seven Sisters? Which is the second largest city in North East India after Calcutta? Mawsynram may be one of the places in India that received highest rainfall each year. But which state is it in? What it

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    Your Passport information can be divulged through RTI!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    This piece of news has left me shocked – According to a news appearing in ToI yesterday, Indian Central Information Commission (CIC) has said that an Individual’s passport information could be disclosed under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act). Essentially, what this means is – All your demographic

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    Gender Equality: Where do Indian women stand [MasterCard Report]

    by Kaushambi

    TIME Magazine, Forbes Magazine, The Economist and other such prestigious publications have year after year covered lists on the lines of Top 100 Influential Persons or Top 50 Women in Business. And the results have often carried the names of Indian women. These are the crème de la crème,

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    Good news for Indian B-schools: Finally climbing international rankings!

    by Kaushambi

    4 Indian business schools out of 6 in the list have finally made the mark amongst top 10 B-schools in the Asia-Pacific region, according to QS Global 200 Business Schools Report. IIM-Ahmedabad is ranked second, IIM-Bangalore is ranked fifth, Indian School of Business has been ranked seventh and IIM-Calcutta

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    Now, IRCTC SMS will serve as E-Ticket for train travel!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    Indian Railways is bringing up much needed changes to the system and making life easier for Indian train travelers. For few years now, the only accepted way for E-Ticket confirmation was carrying a physical paper printout of tickets booked online. Tons of paper was wasted purely on this. Few

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    Facebook, Google warned by Delhi High Court Judge – Like China, We will block websites!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    The content filtering row heats up again – A Delhi High Court Judge sent a stern warning to Social Networking site Facebook & Google to ensure checks on Objectionable material uploaded to their websites by users. Justice Suresh Kait told both the company representatives that – “Like China, we

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    Majority Indians still prefer going abroad to work!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    Indians are still attracted to West when it come to employment – Although, India is dubbed globally as land of opportunities, majority of Indians want to go abroad to work. That’s the finding by Work monitor report released by Ma Foi Randstad. And if you think money is the

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    MIT scientists develop camera that shoots Trillion Frames Per Sec [Indian Connection]

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    I am sure you are aware ultra slow motion cameras – the ones that are used in cricket matches to show those super slow motion videos (of run-outs, cricket shots etc). Those are sophisticated video cameras that shoot at over 1000 Frames per second (FPS) and can capture details

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    Linkedin most overused Buzzwords 2011 – Indians go from “DYNAMIC” to “EFFECTIVE”!

    by Arun Prabhudesai

    When ever you come across any resume or a LinkedIn profile or even a bio written by self – More often than not, you will find buzzwords, which have become kind of default. Infact, sometimes they are so overused, that they create an exact opposite impression of what the

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