Expert-Speak

By Deepak Choudhhary. Investment Guru, CEO - Insurance4Life. Covid-19 pandemic brought personal financial matters under scrutiny as never before. More Indians understood the limitations of their investment strategies and realised that the financial health has a profound impact on their well-being. A survey “Wealth & well-being” conducted by Scripbox, a digital wealth management service provider, headquartered in Mumbai, last July shows that Indians...

- by Akash Pharande, Managing Director - Pharande Spaces The pandemic had brought in an urgency to purchase homes, causing housing demand to hit a peak that lasted over 2 years. However, late realty stocks have been under performing, developers are increasing their property rates, and home loan interest rates have begun to increase. Is real estate's dream run over?...

Putting an end to worries of high schoolers, Crimson Pathfinder is providing help to applicants quantify the value of their activities in preparation to apply to competitive universities and colleges. As college admissions become more competitive, high school students are looking for innovative ways to prepare for college. They want to know what looks good on college applications and what...

Smoking, chewing or snuffing tobacco and nicotine-based products may be perceived as ‘cool’ for some onlookers, but it is not, and these leaves in any form, be it cigarettes, cigars, snuff can play havoc with one’s health, at any age! Tobacco is a widespread epidemic costing millions of lives worldwide annually and it may be astonishing that even those...

New Delhi, May 25, 2022: According to WHO’s findings, up to 5 million deaths a year, could be averted if the global population was more active, and insufficiently active people have a 20% to 30% increased risk of death compared to sufficiently active people. Surprisingly, over 80% of the world's adolescent population is insufficiently physically active.  Toeing the line of WHO’s...

Authored by Piali Dasgupta,Senior Vice President, Marketing, Columbia Pacific Communities Scientists have been studying the relationship between creativity and mental illnesses for a while now. Some studies have shown that highly creative people and those with higher than usual IQ are more prone to mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder. History chronicles many such geniuses – starting with...

25 May 2022 Kolkata: The Little Magazines movement is a world of its own where unknown writers, unpublished poets and unsung litterateurs and activists share their literary exertions and thoughts with well-knit think alike groups spread across the globe. But how is this child of the mimeograph revolution of the 60s and 70s coping up with the ever-evolving digital...

By - Abhishek Agarwal, President – Judge India & Global Delivery at The Judge Group Every chore has become so much more convenient for us with the advancement of both computers and software tech; we are in an era where AI has taken over various human involving tasks that used to take days or weeks for humans are currently being...

Hyderabad… 30 May 2022: Diet is a negative word. It is not diet but consistency that one needs, said renowned Integrative Lifestyle Medicine and Life Coach Luke Coutinho addressed the gathering of women entrepreneurs, professionals and others at a session organized by FLO Hyderabad Chapter here today. In a tete-a-tete with Ms Shubhraa Maheshwari, Chairperson, FICCI FLO Hyderabad Chapter...

ICRA has projected that the year-on-year (YoY) growth of the GDP and gross value added (GVA) at basic prices (at constant 2011-12 prices) in Q4 FY2022 seems to have eased to a tepid 3.5% and 2.7%, respectively, from the performance in Q3 FY2022 (+5.4% and +4.7%, respectively). This is on account of the impact of higher commodity prices on...