Developed infrastructure is considered to be a hallmark of growth and advancement of an economy. It is because good infrastructure assists in raising productivity, lowering down production costs, improving living standards of the people, alleviating poverty and expanding trade. Keeping its merits in...
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...
In this digital age, business processes are witnessing makeovers every other day. The efficacy of the age old brick and mortar concepts are being challenged by fast moving technologies which are lighter on time and cost. Globally, the banking space including the shadow banking segment, has also been...
There have been strong waves of development taking place in Sikkim since Prem Singh Tamang’s Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) formed the government in the recently held 2019 assembly elections.The government has placed many bills in the recently concluded state assembly budget sessions, many o...
Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech in both the houses was not striking in itself, but his pitch on the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) served to prevent the opposition from taking a steadfast stand against it, leading to passage of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, ...
The Amazon rainforest has been burning for severalweeks, becoming a global crisis. Known as the ‘Lungs of the Earth’, a record number of fires have ravaged the Amazonian rainforests in Brazil. Brazil’s stretch of the Amazon lost more than 1,330 square miles of forest cover during the first sev...
The Asia Pacific Group (APG) of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has placed Pakistan in the ‘Enhanced Blacklist’ due to its failure to act on terror funding. They also found that Pakistan was non-compliant on 32 of the 40 compliance parameters of terror financing and money laundering. Paki...
IT compliance calendar (ready reckoner) for September 2019 INCOME-TAXDue Date Particulars &n...
Starting out as a small company headquartered in Kolkata, Inland World Logistics has grown into one of the leading players in the sector. With timely diversification into core and non-core sectors they have managed to hold high the flag of the group even in testing times. Raj Somani, Director, Inlan...