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Bengaluru real estate market is one of the sought-after in the country and has consistently delivered rich returns to investors across established and emerging segments of real estate. “Touted as the Silicon Valley of India, Bengaluru possesses the fundamentals for attracting domestic and global investments in the form of the highest number of engineering colleges in the country and some of the marique management colleges. This is consistently driving the demand for commercial, residential, retail, and warehousing sectors to meet the evolving needs of occupiers, homebuyers, and shoppers and presents immense opportunities in the real estate sector," said Sankey Prasad, CMD, Colliers India.

Cost of Living LIVE Updates January 04: The cost of living is the amount of money one needs to survive in a given place – and one's most essential needs such as food, water, housing, taxes, cost of commute, healthcare, etc. The high rate of inflation has pushed up the cost of living across the globe, burning a hole in the common man's pocket.

South Korea’s Incheon says it has confiscated $375,000 worth of cryptoassets from “tax-evading” residents who tried to hide their earnings in token wallets.

WATCH: Truck Drivers Protest Against New Hit & Run Law, Disrupt Fuel Supply | What’s Changed Currently available services include Indian Oil's Fuel@Call — available to industrial and commercial customers — and Bharat Petroleum's FuelKart. There are also several start-ups such as FuelBuddy, Hamsafar, PepFuels and Repos Energy which currently serve cities such as Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.

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A particularly anticipated clash involves Newcastle United making their way to the Stadium of Light to face arch-rivals Sunderland. This meeting holds significance as it marks the first encounter between the two teams since the Black Cats suffered relegation from the Premier League in 2016.

NEW DELHI : Truckers are protesting against proposed stringent punishment for hit-and-run accidents. It has led to fuel shortages in many cities and put the spotlight on the importance of this sector. Mint looks at the economics of truckers and their impact on the economy.

Todd Phillips' 'Joker,' the narrative delves into the origins of the iconic villain, portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix in the role of Arthur Fleck. While Fleck was initially shown as a mentally unstable individual, he eventually became Gotham City and Batman's most deadly adversary. A prominent theme in the film revolves around the complex relationship between Arthur and Thomas Wayne, raising intriguing questions, such as the possibility of Bruce Wayne's brother being the Joker.

fossil hunters unearthed the remains of a dinosaur from the hills of eastern Montana five years ago, they carried several key characteristics of a Tyrannosaurus rex: a pair of giant legs for walking, a much smaller pair of arms for slashing prey, and a long tail stretching behind it. But unlike a full-grown T. rex, which would be about the size of a city bus, this dinosaur was more like the size of a pickup truck. The specimen, which is now listed for sale for $20 million at an art gallery in London, raises a question that has come to obsess paleontologists: Is it simply a young T.

Wall Street strategists express caution, noting that despite market optimism, immediate risk cuts are not likely.

V Senthil Balaji, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) last year in a money laundering case, on Wednesday moved a city court seeking bail. Principal Sessions Judge S Alli, before whom the bail petition filed by Balaji came up for hearing, posted to January 8, further hearing of the case, after ED's counsel N Ramesh sought time to file a counter affidavit. In his petition, the DMK leader submitted that the Enforcement Directorate was not able to identify and cannot identify the ill-gotten sources of income as the same remain unavailable or the petitioner has no other source of income than the disclosed one.

AHMEDABAD : India's Gujarat state on Wednesday signed initial investment agreements worth ₹7.17 trillion ($86.07 billion) with 58 companies operating in sectors such as energy, oil and gas, and chemicals, its government said. The home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat has been signing these agreements ahead of its biennial Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, which is scheduled to take place in state capital Gandhinagar from Jan. 10 to Jan.

Realty developer BPTP purchased a land parcel spread across 228,000 in Gurgaon for Rs 87.27 crore. BPTP has substantial holdings in Gurugram and Faridabad (about 600 acres) and has been acquiring land parcels in the region for residential and commercial development.

Kyiv's forces seek to embarrass the Kremlin and puncture President Vladimir Putin's argument that life is going on as normal despite the 22-month war. The situation in the border city of Belgorod, which came under two rounds of shelling on Wednesday morning, «remains tense», said regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov, writing on Telegram.

Ram Temple in Ayodhya is being politicised by the BJP. «Where is the politics?..

emergency landing. Shortly after take-off at 12.58 pm from Patna airport, the air traffic controller (ATC) contacted the pilot to return mid-air due to some technical problem," Patna airport director Anchal Prakash said. The airport official added that a probe is underway to determine the reasons behind the technical problems with the aircraft.

foreign policy, its foreign economic policy and its foreign commerce policy, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the three were not distinct but phases of the same policy. He also lauded the 'One District One Product' initiative, which he said represents the diversity of the country in a very «unique and tangible» way. The External Affairs Minister also felicitated the ODOP winners at the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Utsav Celebration here in the national capital. Addressing the event today, Jaishankar said, «Foreign Policy, Foreign Economic Policy, and Foreign Commerce Policy — they are all really, three phases of the same thing...Today, there are no two ministers who work more closely with each other than the commerce minister and the foreign minister». «The result of this, you can see in our exports. It is not just as if our exports are at the highest ever,» he added. The union minister further emphasized that a lot of credit for India's highest-ever export level goes to the Commerce Ministry and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal. «I am into my fifth decade into government, but for the first time, I have seen a foreign minister and commerce minister, and the Prime Minister himself actually address all our commercial representatives abroad, all our ambassadors abroad to promote, our exports.

earthquake in western Japan that killed at least 65, while evacuees continued to wait for further aid amid freezing temperatures and heavy rain. The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck the Noto peninsula on New Year's Day, levelling houses and cutting off remote areas from aid.

Adani group, which is redeveloping Dharavi slums, plans to finance the entire project via internal accruals and possible sale of equity in the special purpose vehicle (SPV) set up for the project, according to sources. Earlier this week, the company had appointed three companies, including noted architect Hafeez Contractor, as city planners to present a draft development plan for the Asia's largest slum cluster. In a statement, the group, which has promised to invest Rs 21,000 crore in the project, said it roped in design firm Sasaki, consultancy firm Buro Happold as design planners for the project as well as some experts from Singapore Housing Development Board. The statement did not mention any timeline for the project. The Adani group had in November 2022 won the bid to redevelop Dharavi, with an initial equity investment of Rs 5,069 crore. Hafeez Contractor is known for revolutionary social housing and slum rehabilitation authority projects in the city, while Sasaki is an interdisciplinary design firm from the US and Buro Happold is a consultancy from England known for its creative and value-driven infrastructure solutions. When asked about the media reports that the company was about to reach financial closure for the project with two lenders agreeing to fund it, a source in the know said the tender conditions are very clear, we cannot raise any debt to fund the project. We will dip into our own finances and look at other innovative financial instruments.

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