The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has recently published data which states that the life insurance sector has witnessed a year-on-year (Y-o-Y) deceleration of 4.24% in the first quarter of FY 2021. Additionally, CARE Ratings recently revealed that owing to the...
The nationwide lockdown has left a direct impact on the textile industry. The sector offers employment to more than 45 million people in India and has a large number of segments like fabric supply, dyeing, labelling, light metallic clothing accessories manufacturing and ancillary textile...
A Singapore-based cyber firm has recently alerted that Indian companies, banks and even ministries can be the major targets of Chinese hackers. The official site of Indian Railways also came under cyber-attack recently. A number of Indian citizens received mails incorporating fake links offeri...
The coronavirus contagion is increasing in India - making it the third worst-hit country after the United States of America and Brazil. In India, the fatality rate of the disease is 2.7% and the recovery rate is around 62%. Institutions worldwide are engaged in discovering medicines and vaccin...
The lockdown has increased digital involvement that helped the online streaming apps and the audio book and e-book space to grow. Books are generally preferred in hard copies. But now it has become quite impossible for the sellers and publishers to deliver at readers’ doorsteps compelling th...
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has halted operations in some of the major economic sectors. Owing to the nation-wide lockdown, people are not getting to attend offices physically. With slipping business conditions and zero profitability, a large number of companies are giving pink slips t...
Kathmandu and New Delhi are currently having to dispute over a centuries-old disputed land. This started at a time when India is already involved in a border dispute with another neighbour - China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh. Hopefully, the Indo-Nepal relationship is ye...
2019 was not a bad year for the Indian tourism industry. The central government was quite attentive towards the tourism and hospitality sector having launched positive schemes like Swadesh Darshan - Integrated Development of Theme-Based Tourist Circuits and the Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spir...
The Indian economy has observed a growth in the start-up sector in the last few years. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) reports that around 1300 new start-ups were established in India during 2019. Majority of start-ups (that exist globally) are technology-o...
The College Street book market, popularly known as the Boi Para, is an iconic landmark of Kolkata. Surrounded by prominent educational institutions like Presidency University, University of Calcutta, and the Medical College, this book market carries the legacy of Bengali literature a...