Kolkata at last has come of age. It can now rightly claim prized place beside the veterans Mumbai and New Delhi, and the upstarts Bangalore and Pune – because Kolkata’s property prices are rising. I’ve with me a graphics sourced from May 25 edition of TT that shows in graphic details what the current property […]
True Value
It was Jagdish Khattar’s pet theme when he started True Value about 3 years back. Khattar, Maruti’s exuberant MD, could foresee that time may soon come when faced with onslaught of new models, people will prefer switching over to new cars selling off old ones that would still command fair value. [Image source left] Today, […]
Emami Chisel
A Ganesh Pyne creation, 1990. [Image source]The first permanent address of an art auction center in the city is going to be at the Emami Group’s HQ on EM Bypass near Ruby Hospital. There, occupying 2 floors of the Emami Building over a total area of 14,000 sq ft, will the auction center be. Emami […]
Owning a website that rewards
Truly speaking, owning a website today is nothing more than a child’s play. Scores of web hosting companies and website designers are there who, once they’re paid, can launch your site in less than half an hour. However to make your website a success, to have visitors come to your site and like it, to […]
AdWords Website Optimizer
Those of you who use AdWords to advertise products or services will now have another help from Google. It’s called Website Optimizer. Though Overture (now under Yahoo!) began before it did, Google can be said to have pioneered contextual advertising ever since it started AdWords in 2002. Popularly called pay-per-click ads or PPC ads, it […]
South City Mall
The Destination Mall – biggest in India thus far! [Image source]Come July, and Kolkata will be witness to opening of one of the largest integrated malls in the country. It’s the South City Mall, being billed as the city’s first ‘destination mall’. And why not! South City Mall will be home to 4 anchors, each […]
After Salim, REIT of UK
REIT Asset Management, a London-based company, will be building 2 housing projects in and around Kolkata. After Salim-Ciputra initiative at Kolkata West International City (see my post, Kolkata West is but Howrah), this is going to be the first foreign direct investment in the real estate sector in the state. David Cohen, the chairman of […]
Metro’s plans
You may say Metro Cash-n-Carry’s city entry is jinxed as its debut large-format store in Singhabari off EM Bypass just after Ruby Hospital is lying half-finished because of a court case over the plot it’s coming up. But that hasn’t prevented the German behemoth to unleash its other plans that includes setting up an academy […]
Great Indian Middle Class
The last couple of years have seen stupendous growth in spending by the middle class. Going by the just-released McKinsey report, number of wireless subscribers has gone up by 68% to 166 million between March 2006 and this year March. [Left image source] This is a sure indication that more and more people are becoming […]
Kolkata haat
A stall in Dilli Haat – buyers aplenty! [Image source] Each major city in India has emerged as a center of export of one commodity or other. While Kolkata ranks high for export of tea, and certain leather and jute items, Delhi is the preferred export center of handicrafts compared to other cities. One advantage […]
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