CII organised the 12th Banking Colloquium in KolkataThe banking colloquium, held in September, covered the technical session on Emerging Trends in Corporate Finance, New Resolution Mechanism, and Traditional vs New Vistas of Finance. It also saw the release of a report on ‘Turnaround in the ...
Plywood is manufactured from timber logs and formed by combining thin timber sheets. India has around 2800 operational wood panel processing and plywood manufacturing plants. According to industry estimates, the plywood market in India is well placed to reach the $5.7 billion mark by 2024. Since ply...
For India, cement production capacity stood at 502 million tonnes per year (MTPA) in 2018. According to inputs from credit rating agency ICRA, around 18-20 MTPA capacity may be added to the industry in FY 20. The country is the second largest producer of cement that accounts for over 8% of the globa...
Kolkata based United Bank of India awarded ISO 27001: 2013 certificationKolkata based United Bank of India has been awarded ISO 27001:2013 certification for its Information Security Management System (ISMS) at Data Centre (DC), Data Recovery Centre (DRC) and Cyber-Security Operation Centre (C-...
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...