Patient safety has become the most important outcome to achieve in medicine. Especially in fields where extensive psychomotor skills (physical movements that require fine and precise movements controlled by the brain) are required such as surgery. It’s obvious that the policy of “see one, do one...
Posta, once a fortress of the Bengali mercantile aristocracy, is now the extension of Burrabazaar and home to over 10,000 ‘mutiamojdoor’. It is also home to several fringe groups that make ends meet by the sweat of their brow.Situated near the Posta Ghat, away from the hustle-bustle of the city,...
A hundred years from now, if scientists have their way, many humans will be partly pig and baboon. I mean really, not metaphorically.Scientists are working on transplanting entire hearts, liver, kidneys, pancreas and lungs from animals to humans. The increasing demand for organs, tissues, and cells,...
Thousands of students are passing out every year from management institutes and it is deplorable that more than half of them are unable to find employment. The last few years have been rough for B-school graduates. Dr. Amitava Mukherjee, Principal, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, spoke to BE’s A...
Cyber security is the need of the hour. With India going digital, Zakir Hussain, Director, BD soft, country partner of Bitdefender, spoke to BE’s Ankita Chakraborty about the recent trends in cyber security.Q. According to a study by the international law firm, Simmons & Simmons, 71% of the wo...
For the Millennials, Prime Minister Modi’s Make in India campaign is a novel approach towards making the country self-reliant and self-sufficient. But, for Dilip Kumbhat, the word ‘indigenization’ had already set into his psyche as far back as 1978. With an education in engineering and a famil...
With a lot of buzz about the Goods and Services Tax (GST) around, Uttarakhand Finance Minister Prakash Pant said that the GST Council decided to slash rates on 29 items, mainly handicrafts, to 0%. 49 other items have been rationalized. However, he also stated that no decision has been taken on simpl...
U.S. Air Force General John Hyten on April 4, 2017 said in Washington that he would refuse to carry out an illegal nuclear strike order saying “Mr. President, that’s illegal”. It tempered down fears about a reckless foray of US into war. On being asked as to what would be legal. He said, “We...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has initiated the process of becoming the world leader at Davos. According to him, since Donald Trump started to put America first, there has been a vacuum in the global leadership. Modi highlighted three main challenges confronting the post-Cold War global ...
Dear Readers,One night, a friend of Swami Vivekananda heard him sobbing. He went to his room and asked him, ‘Are you sick?’ Swamiji said, ‘No. I am sobbing after realising the pangs of crore of people who live in dire poverty, suffering from hunger and malnutrition.’ Saint Tulsidas said in t...