Prof. Ashim Dasguptawas a Finance Minister of West Bengal for 24 years. He had been Chairman of the Empowered Committee of the State's Finance Ministers which prepared the first formulation of theGST laws in 2009. In his exclusive interview with BE’s Kishore Kumar Biswas he explains that GST is be...
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar –Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (1820-1891) was one of the key figures of India’s renaissance in the nineteenth century. He worked wholeheartedly for women’s empowerment andprosperity. He was an academician, a thinker and a scholar par excellence. It was due his vast er...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi deserves to be congratulated for taking a courageous and much needed step in the direction of scrapping the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and for putting in place the higher education regulator i.e. Higher Educat...
The term “spirituality” is used quite vaguely these days to refer to anything ranging from those who subscribe to an eclectic mix of practices, traditions and beliefs, to those who may agree with the foundational aspects of a religion while not adhering to all the rituals, to those who believe i...
Aniruddha Chowdhury, the founder of Calcutta Performing Arts Foundation, who regularly organises the Chowdhury House Music Conference, is a versatile genius. He studied at Don Bosco school of Calcutta and became a civil engineer from IIT Kharagpur. He was the only IITian to become a member of the Ea...
India ranked a lowly 122 on a list of the world’s happiest countries, dropping four slots from last year and coming behind the neighbouring countries like China, Pakistan, and Nepal. The World Happiness Report 2017 maps happiness on the parameters of not only the GDP per capita but also social sup...
Plants and animals are so interdependent that many plants change themselves, even where they grow, in order to accommodate insects. For instance, the bee orchid of the Mediterranean has adapted its colour, shape and texture to make itself look like a female bee. It also releases scents (pheromones) ...
Ziox Mobiles took to the markets in 2015 with the aim of offering technologically superior products without compromising on quality. Headquartered at Delhi, Ziox Mobile has built up an impressive product portfolio. BE’s Anustup Roy Barman spoke to Deepak Kabu, Chief Executive Officer, Ziox Mobiles...
India might be the second largest English speaking country in the world with over 125 million English users but a vast majority of India’s internet population prefers using content in their native languages to English. A recent report by Google and KPMG projected that India will reach 536 million ...
ixigo is the fastest growing travel meta search engine in the Indian travel industry. It was founded in 2007. It connects around 80 million travellers with content and deals from over 25,000 online and offline travel and hospitality businesses.BE’s Anustup Roy Barman talked with Rajnish Kumar, CTO...