covid impact

COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims, according to a…

In another sign of a recovery in India’s real estate market, Apollo Global Management plans to provide a USD 1-billion debt funding to developers in the country this year, according to a Bloomberg report. Both housing and commercial realty…

After being hit by the COVID-19 pandemic for about two years, the residential sector is poised for a strong 2022 as both sales and new launches are set for a robust performance after exhibiting resilience last year. Housing sales in the…

<!-- -->WTO has slashed global trade volume growth for 2022 due to Russia-Ukraine warNew Delhi: The world merchandise trade volume is expected to grow by 3 per cent in 2022 against the earlier forecast of 4.7 per cent, mainly due to…

The office space sector in India continues to witness a robust recovery, as the leasing activity during January-March jumped 97 per cent y-o-y to touch 11.4 million sq ft, according to a report by India’s leading real estate consulting firm…

With the number of COVID-19 cases coming down, demand for offices has started making a swift return with office space leasing registering a 25 per cent year-on-year jump during January-March 2022 to 10.8 million square feet (msf). Bengaluru…

<!-- -->Deadline for filing income tax returns has been extended to March 15, 2022Government has extended the deadline for filing income tax returns to March 15, according to a notification issued by the department of revenue of the…

<!-- -->Hundreds of infrastructure projects have been affected by cost overrunsA total of 438 projects in the infrastructure sector, worth more than Rs 150 crore have been affected by cost overruns totalling Rs 4.34 lakh…

<!-- -->Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will meet heads of banks next weekFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to meet heads of banks and financial institutions next week to remove friction in credit flow to productive…

<!-- -->Rating agency ICRA has said that economic growth in second half of current fiscal is likely to be betterAs half of the 15 high frequency indicators have reached the pre-pandemic levels in the September-end quarter of the…