The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) declared the Kumbh Mela in India to be in the ‘Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ during its 12th session being held at Jeju, South Korea from 4-9 December, 2019. Crore of people congregat...
India was not always this cruel. In spite of the culture of animal sacrifice and ritual hunts by tribes, it was, by and large, a peaceful country where people lived together with animals and respected their lives. All this has changed in the last 50 years. Now animals are either a nuisance, or a com...
Should India cheer the decline in inflation rate or mourn it as this was caused largely by a fall in the prices of agricultural produce and thus, would affect the country’s farm economy? The softening of inflation rate would help to protect the purchasing power of an average Indian, but the fall i...
UK India Business Council signs an MoU with the Government of West BengalUK India Business Council (UKIBC) signed an MoU with the Government of West Bengal at the Bengal Global Business Summit 2019 formalising its shared commitment to deliver UK business, investment, and economic growth in West Beng...
Truefitt & Hill, a popular men’s grooming company introduced Joanna Broughton, the Executive Director, Truefitt & Hill Global alongside Katie and Alice Broughton, who is visiting India with an outline of Global and Indian Brand Expansion for the first time. They were brought to India by Kr...
The Merchant Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) organised a seminar titled ‘Way Forward to ‘Skill Bengal’: Reforms, Challenges & Imperatives’. Purnendu Basu, Minister-in-Charge, Department of Technical Education, Training and Skill Development, Government of West Bengal, Dr. Surjya ...
Jindal Stainless through its subsidiary JSL Lifestyle Limited, commissioned its first dedicated facility for Railways in Chennai. It is spread over two acres in the Industrial Estate, Maraimalai Nagar. This new railway facility will supply high quality stainless steel components with ‘just-i...
Srei Equipment Finance Limited recently announced that it has partnered with Syndicate Bank to jointly provide equipment financing under co-lending arrangement for various equipment categories like construction, mining, material handling, commercial vehicles, medical and farm equipment. The partners...
Science City, Kolkata, a constituent unit of the National Council of Science Museums, has added a new feather to its cap. The Fulldome3D Digital Theatre which was recently inaugurated by Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Union Minister of State for Culture (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for- Envi...
The Interim Budget 2019 has been prepared keeping in view certain international and national developments. A cursory look at the events that have taken place at the international front showcase a fluctuation in the prices of crude oil from $65 per barrel in April 2018 to a high of $85 per barrel in ...