The Covid-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented situation across the world by disrupting economies and affecting people and their livelihoods. The lockdown may have helped to contain the spread of the virus to some extent but it has disrupted many businesses, especially offline retail store...
The coronavirus induced economic slowdown has not limited entrepreneurial ideas. In a major innovation in the laundry segment, Clean Cat is digitising laundry services – integrating online services with last mile offline networking. BE’s Saptarshi Deb spok...
“During the lockdown, local residents used to inform their requirements either over phone or Whatsapp. My helper and I used to deliver the items to their houses. In order to avoid contact, most of the customers used to pay through PhonePe or GooglePay. Now, though the lockdown has been relax...
I am reading ‘A Curious History of Food and Drink’, by Ian Crofton. The more I read, the sadder I get. It is a compilation of such savagery, such insane greed for destruction, such insensitivity, that I wonder what an alien reading it would think of us humans. In&n...
As the pandemic related lockdown was implemented, people started to order from online platforms even more. But delivery agents who stand at the last stage of the supply management chain are an essential part of this retail ecosystem. The socio-economic conditions of the delivery agents a...
The world is facing one of humanity’s biggest crises since the second World War. Almost every country has been affected by the devastating coronavirus disease (Covid-19). It presents a few unusual challenges and that is what this article is about.Many of us were miles away from home, living in dif...
Dear Readers,Bharat: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact will continue to till February 2021 or more as forecasted by experts.Aditya Puri, Managing Director, HDFC Bank, said if India grows at 5%, then the rest of the world will grow by 2-3%. India can reach 8-9% if everything is done righ...
The pandemic situation has not been able to prevent the scientific developments and discoveries. One such instance is the brain-machine interface, recently demonstrated by scientists at Elon Musk-backed Neuralink. According to a report by venturebeat.com, “Readings from a pig’s brain were s...
India Power Corporation Limited has embarked on a mission to ensure that its domestic and industrial consumers are assured of electricity supply at affordable rates without suffering voltage fluctuations, power failures, blackouts, and load-shedding. The company's focus on customer-centricity, ...
India has been globally famous for its handloom industry for centuries. From the early seventeenth century, India’s two principal export items to Europe were food grains and textiles. In exchange, India predominantly imported horses and precious metals – mainly silver. For more than two centurie...