Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the ‘India Ideas Summit’ organised by the US-India Business Council (USIBC) emphasised that India is an open economy with no shortage of opportunities and options. He also stated that this is the best time to invest in India. But this optimism contra...
Indian slums have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Then again, curiously, the spread of the pandemic could be mitigated successfully in many of these large informal urban settlements.According to a research paper published by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) co-authored by Jenia M...
A negative impact of the Covid-19 period has been the negligence in the management of bio-waste in the country.Doubts in following CPCB guidelines for Covid treatmentA large number of observers, like members of prominent NGOs, members of doctors’ forums and several stakeholders have been concerned...
The recent ban of Chinese apps has proved to be a blessing for Indian app developers. Indian mobile app studio KShark Apps has taken the lead and published multiple Indian alternatives for the banned apps. One of them, Carbon Scanner is trending and has recorded a large number of downloads. BE...
Amidst the present global economic slowdown triggered by the pandemic, retail chain D-Mart has said that it has recovered 80% of its pre-lockdown business in stores that can function unhindered. The news that the grocery retail chain could bounce back after a few weeks of uncertainty and poor sales ...
In 2009, PREDICT, a project that aimed at the detection of the emergence of zoonotic viruses was launched by the United States Agency for International Development. Zoonotic viruses are those that pass from animals to humans and can be sources of potential pandemics. During its first dec...
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced people to stay at home. But for every citizen, it is not always a viable option - especially for frontline workers like doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.A section of people is still attending offices - either rotationally or every day. In that...
Researchers say that the more we destroy animal habitat the more we become vulnerable to viruses. Viruses and bacteria usually come from animals, as is the case with Covid-19, which originated in the ‘wet markets’ of Wuhan in China in late 2019. From a ‘zoonotic’ origin, the virus has spread...
In India, Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) were defined for the first time by the MSME Development Act of 2006. The two criteria for defining MSMEs were investment in plant and equipment for manufacturing and investment in equipment for services. Investments in land and building, cos...
India is the second highest consumer of gold after China. But the global pandemic has put the segment under pressure. The country’s economically vulnerable situation has echoed in its gold market. Imports of gold dropped drastically (around 86% year-on-year) during June because of the di...