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JLL’s latest Global Real Estate Transparency Index reveals significant improvement in India

• The country has bagged the 34th position on the Index and is one of the top improvers globally and regionally • It has also edged into the top 20 for Sustainability Transparency • India’s rank in World Bank’s ‘Ease of Doing Business Ranking’ improved significantly from 142 in 2014 to 63 in 2019

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Bhagalpur: Improvising Smart City with Inclusive Citizen-Centricity

Bhagalpur is a centre of health services for various adjoining smaller cities and villages. The attendant of patients does not get facilities to stay at an affordable price. With our commitment to do the customer-centric project we are developing a 100 bedded night center for the attendant of the patient. Says Sunil Kumar, CEO, Bhagalpur Smart City Limited in conversation with Poulami Chakraborty of BW SmartCities. Excerpts below:

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Workforce Management strategies that put Customer Experience and Customer Safety first during COVID-19

Care, creative thinking, and new tools can address customers’ acute needs today and forge stronger ties in the post-COVID-19 era

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Razorpay report: Digital Payment surges in India in past 30 days by 23 per cent

During the 101 days of lockdown, March 24-July 2, the online education sector grew by 23 percent as extended lockdown has led to a rise in demand for online courses

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Kirana stores are considering greater technology adoption, says EY

• The EY ‘Sentiments of India’ survey tracks the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on kirana stores and their evolving status within the urban consumer ecosystem • There has been a positive movement towards the adoption of technology with 40% respondents stating they want to partner with online delivery and supply platforms • Consumer loyalty is in question, providing a window for new brands to replace old loyalties, at least 69% kiranas in the non-metros were able to sell alternative brands to their customer

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Dell Technologies Brings IT Infrastructure and Cloud Capabilities to Edge Environments

• Ruggedized VxRail systems with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors create powerful IT capabilities for harshest edge environments • VxRail introduces AMD EPYCTM processor support with compact models for space-constrained data centers and edge environments • The only jointly engineered HCI system with VMware, VxRail delivers a hybrid cloud approach no matter where data and applications reside • VxRail HCI System Software enhancements further automate operations and management • New Intel Optane persistent memory and NVIDIA GPU options support data-intensive applications

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Paytm to acquire Raheja QBE General Insurance to expand its financial services offerings

- To buy 100% from both Prism Johnson and QBE of Australia - Aims to democratise general insurance for driving financial inclusion - Vijay Shekhar Sharma to hold majority shareholding

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Sterlite Power Successfully Concludes Refinancing of Gurgaon Palwal Transmission Project with HDFC Bank

The new financing to prepay the existing project loan of INR 800 crores has been arranged by HDFC Bank. The new facility has been availed at significantly favourable terms demonstrating the considerably improved risk profile of the project post achievement of CoD (Date of Commercial Operation).

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Smart City Integrated Command and Control Centre(ICCC) acted as COVID 19 war-rooms: Durga Shankar Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)

In a recent virtual conference organized by BW Businessworld, MoHUA Secretary, Durga Shankar Mishra asserted how Integrated Command and Control Centers(ICCC) as war rooms for COVID-19. Excerpts as under

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Ashok Gehlot led Rajasthan Government rejigs100 IAS officers

The major bureaucratic reshuffle in Rajasthan has announced Rajeeva Swarup as the new Chief Secretary of the state, replacing D B Gupta besides transferring 100 other IAS officers.

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