By July 2018, India had the world’s second largest internet user base with over 44.6 crore smart phones and 56 crore internet users. Although it started with telegrams, the major segments of communications in India today include telephone, internet and television broadcasts. The sector is growing ...
FaceApp, which is an image-enhancing mobile application, has taken the Indian social media by storm. News feeds across social networks are being flooded with well-designed ‘old age’ images of individuals using that particular image filter in FaceApp. The app has been around since 2017 and ...
In 2016, the World Bank’s Logistic Performance Index ranked India in the 35th position. This was a significant improvement from 2014 when India ranked 54th in the same list. The huge jump was an indication of the boom in the logistical sector and the ranking further reinforced the growth by creati...
A self-reporting tax system prevails in India. The Income Tax Act of 1961 gives a detailed procedure for the assessment of taxable income. It also provides guidelines on the redressal of disputes arising from such assessments.Such settlements, however, often take decades to complete. They involve lo...
In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to eradicate manual scavenging in India by 2019. On June 15, 2019, four manual scavengers died in his home state, Gujarat. Another two died in Uttar Pradesh. Manual scavenging is defined by the United Nations as, “The practice of manually cleaning, ca...
According to a leaked draft report by the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), the unemployment rate in the country in the Financial Year (FY) 2018 amounted to an overall rate of 6.1%, an all-time high in the last 45 years. Data published by the Internatio...
Risk is an unavoidable fact of life on earth. When one steps out of his house in the morning, one doesn’t know what awaits him. Human beings may be risk lovers, risk averse or risk neutral, depending on the affinity one has towards risk as an element and yet most people find an uncertain misfortun...