In the first part of a series, we bring you the top 10 science colleges, as per India Today's findings.
Sports fans and players across the world frustrated by cancelled matches because of the coronavirus epidemic are turning to e-sports, with professional real-world athletes joining virtual game tournaments of football, auto racing and basketball.
Though Indian consumers continue to remain the most optimistic globally, their confidence level slipped by 5 points to 126 index points.
Indian consumers' spending on FMCG items at modern retail stores is set to nearly triple to $5 billion by 2015 from $1.8 billion at present, according to market research firm, the Nielsen Company.
According to a study by the firm, the average sequential growth of ad spend in the Asia-Pacific region during the quarter was 18 per cent.
Despite high awareness of 3G and its capabilities to deliver broadband content, it may take 8-10 years before the majority of mobile subscribers adopt it, says the study by The Nielsen Company.
The most concerned nations about climate change are Philippines (78 per cent), Indonesia (66 per cent), Thailand and Mexico (62 per cent), the survey said.
India saw one of the worst terrorist attacks in November last year, when Mumbai was under siege for four days. Little under a year later, Indians perceive rising food prices as a bigger threat than terrorism.
The country's largest software firm Tata Consultancy Services and the Netherlands-based Nielsen Company on Thursday entered into an agreement for outsourcing a portion of Nielsen's IT and operations functions. It is a 10-year agreement valued at US$1.2 billion, TCS said.
Content is King, and if it is of high quality, Indians are ready to pay for it. Internet users polled in India are ready to pay for online content, particularly books, magazines and music, and professionally produced videos and television shows, said The Nielsen Company.According to the survey, 70 per cent Indians are willing to pay for online content if they get the right to copy it and share it with others. About 63 per cent will pay if the payment system is easy to use.
According to the survey conducted by global consultancy firm The Nielsen Company, nine out of 10 Indians believe that free content on the Internet should remain free in the future.
Six out of ten people in India go by the name of the manufacturer in purchasing a food item and believe that the maker is responsible for providing them with safe food, says a survey.
India led the ad spend growth in Asia Pacific in the second quarter of this year
The online survey, conducted by global information and media firm Nielsen Company, shows that 21 percent of Indian consumers as compared to 28 percent globally, ranked environment-friendly stores, using recycle bags/package as the most important consideration for their grocery store choice.
According to the survey carried out by international marketing research firm The Nielsen Company, India has topped the bi-annual Global Consumer Confidence Index for the fifth time in a row.
These coveted brands have raked in billions in dollars and continue to prosper.
Patriotism amongst Indians is touching a high, according to an online survey conducted by The Nielsen Company, with 89 percent of the respondents wishing to be reborn as an Indian if they were given a choice.
'We must delink religion from politics' 'Leaders with vested interests have brought religion into politics.' Netaji's grandnephew Chandra Kumar Bose, the BJP candidate against Mamata Banerjee, on the campaign trail.
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