For businesses, this year’s Diwali brings in more joy and festivities for India. India has improved its ranking in the ‘Ease of Doing Business’ index at a time when its economy is in slowdown.According to the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business 2020’ report, India moved from the seventy seventh...
National and international agencies, including the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank, in the last few months, have been steadily downgrading their FY 2020 growth forecasts for India. The most pessimistic growth rate of all forecasts is from the in...
Economics is too important to be left to economists alone – that’s how two of the three economists, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who won the Nobel Prize this year, end their latest book, Good Economics for Hard Times. Abhijit Banerjee has raised a lot of controversies by winning the prize;...
Lord Krishna resides in the heart of pure and righteous. Let our body, mind and soul be filled with playful sports of Divine child.In the kali yuga, the age of evil when virtue is impossible, only the name of Krishna sets you free. All love Krishna, who was born in a prison cell.The reasons for Lord...
Exide Industries is the country’s largest manufacturer of lead acid storage batteries and power storage solutions. The company recently announced its entry into the expanding e-rickshaw market in India by launching its first e-rickshaw model, Exide Neo. The e-rickshaw model will be sold across mar...
The government has retracted its plan of imposing a blanket ban on single-use plastics. The measure seemed too disruptive for various industries. The use of single use plastic has become one of the biggest sources of pollution, adding to landfills, contaminating food chains and filling up ocean beds...
Imagine if your nose were to be on top of your head, eyes on your stomach and a mouth on your feet. I’m sure that such an animal exists somewhere, because Nature hasn’t left any combination out.There is a newly discovered 4 mm marine worm in Scotland, Ampharete oculicirrata, which has a jumble o...
The departure of Ma Durga is always a solemn affair for Bengalis. However, this time, the festivities seem to be continuing. After Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize for Economics, the public mood in West Bengal received yet another boost by the news of Sourav Ganguly’s appointment as the Presid...
The developmental paradigm in India has received a setback with the recent Global Hunger Index report. With an overall score of 30.3, India is ranked below neighbouring Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal in the recently published Global Hunger Index (GHI) report. The four indicators for the index are un...
The Ayodhya dispute regarding who owns the property in which the now demolished Babri Mosque stood, which is claimed by certain Hindu groups as the birthplace of Lord Ram and where they want to construct a temple, is the oldest, longest and most controversial litigation in India. It started as...