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Real Estate Boom! Is Osama Responsible?

Real Estate Boom! This is not an irrelevant term in the Real Estate industry. Every broker/realtor loves to hear these words and consequently every investor and businessman in the country starts rolling his hands in glee at the prospect of a handsome profit. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that’s not what we’re talking about [...]

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Another ORR section opened for traffic – Hyderabad

HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has announced the opening of Pedda Amberpet-Shamshabad section of the Nehru Outer Ring Road (ORR) for traffic. It will be the second section of ORR after the Gachibowli-Shamshabad section which was opened earlier. HMDA Commissioner Rajeshwar Tiwari informed a gathering at the ‘Advantage AP – Annual IT summit’ on [...]

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Hyderabad SEZs on the FAST TRACK

The Andhra Pradesh government has given letters of permission (LoPs) to seven IT companies to set up their offices in special economic zones (SEZs). The companies include QFund Technologies Limited, Rimage Corporation, KAG Outsourcing Services, Yash Technologies Limited, Freescale Semi Conductor India, IT Convergence Professional Services, and Intelligroup Asia Private Limited. Four of the seven [...]

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New CM raises Hyderabad city builders’ hopes of Real Estate Revival

A well-connected builder recalls a meeting with K Rosaiah a couple of months ago to seek help in putting the real estate sector in revival mode. The builder says he came to the point politely and suggested to CM garu that Hyderabad needed to be showcased once again, like Y S Rajasekhara Reddy did or [...]

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IT industry hails PM for his strong stand on outsourcing

The Indian IT industry thanked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh     for taking a strong stand on outsourcing issue and conveying to the  US president that India was not stealing American jobs and, in fact, outsourcing was raising productivity in the US. “We thank the Prime Minister for corroborating our view and conveying that the Indian IT [...]

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Hyderabad – Technology Centre of Repute

Manmohan Singh has said that Hyderabad has come forward as a knowledge and technology centre of status and it has been befittingly selected for launching the new campus of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). Today the foundation stone for TIFR’s Hyderabad campus was laid at Gachibowli. He emphasized the need for getting higher human [...]

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National Association of Realtors India 2011 Convention

If you are asked to name a single industry today that can function without the support and association of the real estate industry, you would at a loss of words. Simply because there exists no such industry. The world as we know it is changing and the pace of growth has been leaving many businesses [...]

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India: Crowning Glory

In writing about the tremendous growth potential in India, and how investors can profit from it, I had to leave out my favorite Indian company — and perhaps the best example of this countries ingenuity and skill. Before India’s economy really started growing, and before the cloud-computing renaissance,  there were the Indian “offshoring” companies, an [...]

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Andhra Pradesh Realtors Association

APRA  is a non profit organisation formed by all the leading real estate consulting companies based out of Hyderabad yet catering to Multinational/Indian corporations/ individuals in the areas of commercial – retail and residential real estate consulting for over a decade. The main aim and objective of APRA is to promote ethical and standard business practices [...]

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Infosys, Wipro, HCL, TCS create Wealth

Infosys is one of India’s premier software company, which has contributed greatly to India’s global reputation as a powerhouse of IT exports. It has also been a pioneer in the concept of giving away its shares to its employees in the form of stock options. This employee perk has made many of them multi millionaires, [...]

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