Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, one of India’s largest holistic infrastructure institutions, has reported a consolidated profit after tax (“PAT”) of`162.43 crore during the half year ended September 30, 2017 as compared to`113.44 crore during the corresponding period of last year, a growt...
If the bubble of dotcom had not gone bust way back in the late 90’s, Murugavel Janakiraman probably would have been just another cog in the constantly spinning gears of the IT world. “Even when that happened and my career as a consultant in the IT sphere was at stake, I could have stuck ou...
The famous actor, humorist, newspaper columnist Will Rogers had cleverly referred to advertising as the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need. Advertisements are made to encourage or persuade an audience to continue with or to take on some new purc...
The first Millennium Development Goal signed by 189 nations in 2000, aimed to “halve hunger by 2015”. Unfortunately, even two years after that deadline, the recent Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released on October 12, 2017, by Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFP...
India has stopped counting its poor; it is counting its billionaires to showcase what a section regards as economic prosperity. Economic growth is now perceived in the number of cars sold; in the number of rising internet connections or in the number of mobile phones manufactured in the country.Indi...
The recent announcement of a plan for infusion of money to the Public Sector Banks (PSBs) is certainly hopeful. This is done in order to strengthen the balance sheets of the PSBs as there are very few ways to resolve the matter. A few days ago, Pawan Bajaj, Managing Director and CEO, United Ba...
Chairman Xi Jinping’s dramatic elevation to the topmost slot of the Chinese Communist Party has certainly ruffled some feathers here in Bengal. The election of Jinping is being pitted as one of the historic events in Chinese political history as the leader is being bracketed with the two of his gr...
The porosity of the Indo-Bangladesh border permeates several outlawed activities like illegal infiltration, human trafficking, smuggling of gold, illegal cattle trade, circulation of counterfeit currency, narcotics trade and robbery. For almost three decades now, India has spent a significant sum of...
The recent shooting in Las Vegas killed at least 59 people and left 527 injured. Subsequent investigations revealed an arsenal of 42 explosives, firearms and thousands of ammunitions from the suspect’s home and hotel room. The shooting has again spurred public debate on gun control laws in the US....
Zeenat Shahzadi, a 26 year old reporter of Daily Nai Khabar and Metro News TV channel, went missing on August 19, 2015, when some unidentified men allegedly kidnapped her while she was on her way to office in Lahore. She was rescued recently from the Afghan-Pakistan border on October 19, 2017. Accor...