In an election year, the central budget gets bifurcated into two parts - a vote-on-account and the full budget. While the goodies are generally packed into the first basket having an eye on the forthcoming ballot game, the latter gets the not-so-sweet or bitter pills. The Central Budget of fis...
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875-1950) was the ‘Maker of United India’ and a leading patron and defender of Indianness of his time.Vallabhbhai belonged to the clan of Leva Patel of the Patidar community renowned for fighting and sacrificing for nationalism. Leva Patidars protested actively against...
When we were young, we spent two months every year with my mother’s parents on a huge farm in a village near Bhopal. We slept in mosquito netted beds in the garden, we shelled peas, roasted green channas, and played pittoo and all sorts of indoor games with shells and seeds. We were fed relentless...
The Indian banking industry has been suffering from an extensive Non-Performing Assets (NPA) crisis. The Public Sector Banks (PSBs) are hard hit but privatebanks are also not completely immune from it. It is claimed that the PSBs and private banks are not on the same plane.The PSBs are expected to p...
‘Katha bola Shikhe Jiboner Lakkhe Pouchhono’, a book on public speaking, by Shri Pranay Dutta, published by Business Economics Publication Pvt. Ltd.(L-R): Shri Amalesh Dasgupta, Dr. Rumpa Das, Shri Goutam De, Dr. H.P. Kanoria, Shri Pranay Dutta, Shri Binayak Sarkar, Dr. Parijat De, S...
‘Rabindranath Tagore - A life of intimacy with Nature’, a book by Professor Debarati Bandopadhyay, was launched by Shri Keshari Nath Tripathi, Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal at Raj Bhawan on June 28, 2019.(L-R) : Shri Raju Barman, Dr. H.P. Kanoria, Shri Keshari Nath Tripathi, Professor ...
Recently on July 1, 2019, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), waived off all charges on transactions through RTGS and NEFT modes and advised banks to pass on the benefit of the waiver to their customers. This step was taken to boost digital payments and widen the ambit of formal banking channel.This in...
Round Table India (RTI) Kolkata Chapter Table No 227 & Young Leaders Forum (YLF) recently organised the second edition of the ‘Pride of Bengal Awards 2019’. This award programme celebrates the biggest successes from the state of West Bengal.Dr. H.P. Kanoria was conferred the Lifetime Achieve...
Allahabad Bank opens 43 Kisan Pragati KendrasAllahabad Bank has launched project “NAVODAYA” encom-passing several customer centric initiatives. One of these is establishment of “Kisan Pragati Kendra” (KPK) for hassle free processing and sanctioning of high value investment credit to boost th...
English is taught as a second language in most government and government-aided schools in India.It has been observed by educationists that when students from non-English medium schools compete with students from English medium schools, they lag behind due to their non-proficiency in communicative En...