Durga Puja is a time of festivities and feasting. People look forward to try out new dishes and festival-specific menus at hotels and restaurants. Some Kolkata-based hotels and restaurants and their Durga Puja specials for this year are listed here.JW Marriott Kolkata is all set to host gourmet expe...
CII organised the 18th ICT East 2019CII organised a two-day conference on digitalisation at ITC Sonar on 10-11 September, 2019. The conference deliberated on important topics like strategy for leveraging digital technologies, execution of digital strategy to garner profit, digital technology f...
Private companies in India were only allowed captive mining for cement, steel, power and aluminium industries until February 20, 2018, when the central government allowed them to enter the commercial mining segment. This move by the central government ended the monopoly of the state-owned Coal India...
The Indian stainless steel industry is being challenged by rising imports and raw material issues. Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL) is among the top stainless steel manufacturers in India. Vijay Sharma, Director, Jindal Stainless Limited spoke to BE’s Kuntala Sarkar regarding the current scenario of...
The PDP Group has been in the logistics sector for more than three decades with the motto ‘moving beyond logistics’. Pramod Kumar Srivastava, CEO and Director, PDP Group, spoke to BE’s Aritra Mitra regarding the problems and prospects in the sector.Q. What challenges do you face as an importan...
The muslin clothes manufactured in India used to be merchandised to the Roman emperors in the 2nd century AD. During the 17th and 18th centuries, muslins were imported by Europeans from Bengal. During the Indian struggle for independence, development of ‘khadi’ (hand-woven natural fibre cloth or...
In the latest Union Budget, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitaraman, proposed to increase the import duty on gold from 10% to 12.5%. The decision came at a time when the domestic jewellery industry was demanding a cut in import duty. In the past, the Indian commerce ministry had also recommended a reduc...
With an estimated 19 million pets, and 600,000 pets being adopted every year, the pet food industry in India shows huge potential. There has been an increasing awareness about pet nutrition and pet owners are becoming more conscious about pet care products. Growth is recorded in all categories inclu...
Q. What is the business model of your company?A. Jaipur Rugs is a social business that connects rural craftsmanship with global markets through hand-made carpets. It is a family business based out of Jaipur that offers an exclusive range of hand-knotted andhand-woven rugs which are made using a trad...
Seon Seob Kim is the President, MD and CEO of Hyundai Motor India.A keen strategist with 27 years of diversified global experience, S. S. Kimhas worked in different markets. BE’s Nikhil Raghavan spoke to him at the launch of Kona Electric, Hyundai’s new electric SUV.Q. What is the strategy behin...
