A number of challenges impacted the Indian industries during the complete lockdown period – labour shortage, cargo capacity challenges, manufacturing slowdown, delayed orders, stuck shipments etc. The manufacturing halt further reduced demand for logistics services that resulted in downward pressu...
When the ‘City of Joy’ is decorated with lights, the city is covered with advertisement hoardings and long queues outside pandals and restaurants exercise unparalleled patience, it goes without saying that Kolkata is celebrating Durga Puja, the largest biggest festival for the Bengalis. The pomp...
Bhanwari Devi, a Dalit woman, employed with the rural development programme of the Rajasthan government, was brutally gangraped in 1992 for trying to stop the prevalent practice of child marriage. This incident highlighted the hazards faced by working women, following which the Supreme Court acknowl...
“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...
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...
According to the website of the World Health Organisation (WHO), it has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of cyber-attacks directed at its staff. It has also reported an increase in email scams targeting the public at large since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Scammers imper...
On April 29, 1999, Jessica Lal, a model working part-time as a bar waitress was murdered at a party by Manu Sharma, the son of a politician in Delhi, as Lal refused to serve him liquor at the party after midnight. Though the police arrested Sharma and his friends, most witnesses turned hostile...
Every year Durga Puja is celebrated in Kolkata with a lot of pomp and grandeur. The artistic exhibition of idols, pandals, lighting and decorations set Durga Puja apart from all the other festivities in the country. According to a report by The Times of India, it is also one of the largest employmen...
When cooking in regular households come to a halt, when flocks of pandal hoppers move around the city of Kolkata, when there are long queues outside the famous as well as the not-so-famous eateries of the city and when the airports and railway stations tend to look more crowded than usual, one can u...
In India, for the past few years, the shift to clean, renewable energy has been a priority. The growing environmental awareness and reduction in prices of green energy has fuelled this trend. According to a report by Energyworld.com, India has committed `24 trillion to the energy sector u...