Narayana Superspeciality Hospital pledges for tobacco free KolkataNarayana Superspeciality Hospital in association with Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and Indian Dental Association (IDA) announced the introduction of a weekly oral screening camp and Tobacco Sensitisation Programme to raise awar...
India has less than 4% penetration for life insurance as on January 31, 2019, while overall telecom penetration in India (number of telephones per 100 people) was 91.82% at the same time, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authorityof India (TRAI) data. The collaboration between Bharti Airtel, one ...
India is home to about 350 million people who lack access to electricity. Lack of reliable power continues to be a major constraint to sustained industrial growth, investment, and economic competitiveness for the country. Electricity shortages are estimated to cost the country around 7% of its Gross...
Sony, one of the first Android smartphone Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to operate in India, has announced that it will exit the Indian smartphone market. This decision came after the company failed to generate enough sales for years in a row for its smartphone business. The company has as...
In Chennai, from time immemorial, the various wholesale markets have been functioning from different parts of the city. For instance, the flower and fruit markets used to be located in the Flower Bazaar area near Parry’s Corner. The vegetable market was in KothwalChavadi, also near Parry’s. Due ...
The trend of immersive online gaming is fast increasing among children, teenagers and young adults.Reasons for the boostThe Indian online gaming industry, riding on a rapid growth in digital infrastructure, is estimated to reach Rs. 11,900 crore by 2023. The industry touched Rs. 4400 crore in the la...
The new finance minister, Nirmala Sitaraman, in one of her first tweets immediately after taking office writes “Grateful for every thought/idea that’s being shared by scholars, economists and enthusiasts through print, electronic and on social media. I read many of them; also my team carefully c...
India’s largest corporate conglomerate, Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), has made a strong entry into the online retailing sector by creating India’s biggest offline to online (O2O) platform. While certain Indian tech start-ups have been trying to digitise India’s largely unorganised kirana sto...
Modi may have won the 2019 general election bypassing the economic issues at large but now, arresting an economic slowdown and nursing back the country’s financial sector are among the crucial challenges before the nation.Indian economy has slowed down to its lowest in five years in the last fisca...
The election results this time round will be remembered for a ‘khaki’ campaign in which Modi and his supporters dominated by convincing the Indian society that an alert chowkidar can keep the country safe from terrorists, anti-nationals, and infiltrators. A deliberately engineered social phenome...