After Walmart’s $16 billion acquisition of Flipkart and Amazon’s $5 billion gain from India, the Narendra Modi government has announced changes in its policy for the e-commerce sector.The government has been controlling the ‘deep discount’ offered by various e-commerce players. Now it is att...
‘Abortani’ is a Bengali word which signifies something that arrives cyclically. Kolkata Society for Cultural Heritage (KSCH), a Non-Govern-mental Organisation (NGO), has chosen ‘Abortani’ as the name for their project that deals with waste-recycling and management.Last year, KSCH started thi...
The Indian Railways and the National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) has finalised the Japanese E5 Shinkansen technology for the implementation of 10 bullet train corridors with the total length of about 6,000 kilometres across the country. Out of these bullet train routes, six routes h...
Few hours after Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister of India for his second term, US President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration will withdraw the designation of Generalised System of Preference (GSP) from India. GSP is the largest and oldest US trade preference programme allo...
India is projected to have the largest young workforce in the world by 2025 but is failing to cash in on this rich demographic dividend. According to a draft report from National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), India presently has its highest unemployment rate in the last 45 years.The manufacturi...
India is the second largest footwear manufacturer in the world after China. According to the statistics portal Statista, revenue in the footwear market in India is expected to be around $ 7,525 million by 2019. The same portal claims that it will grow in a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 12.6%...
India ranks third in the world in terms of quality research in Artificial Intelligence (AI), behind the US and China. AI is an intelligence demonstrated by machines similar to natural intelligence displayed by humans. This is an area of computer science that emphasises the creation of intelligent ma...
Navkaran Singh Bagga is the founder of AKVO, a company which provides safe and pure drinking water using the Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) technology. Bagga spoke to BE’s Kuntala Sarkar.Q. Can you explain the AWG technology? A. The most abundant source of freshwater is the Earth’s atmo...
There has been a significant drop in the decadal growth rate of agriculture in India. For the 2000 – 2010 period, it has dropped to 2.61%. The Green Revolution in India was based on the idea that nutrient loss can be overcome by the use of potash and nitrates as chemical fertilisers. Agricultural ...
India is seen as an emerging sector of election campaign management organisations. Campaign strategies formulated by organisations are driven by their understanding of who will vote for their client and why. If the organisations find that voters are not in favour, they undertake correctives.The Indi...