Bahadi Tudu, a tribal from Madhuban village in the Dumka district of Jharkhand, is a member of a self-help group operating under the ‘Mission 2020: Lakhpati Kisan – Smart Villages’ programme. Coordinated by the Collectives for Integrated Livelihood Initiatives of Jamshedpur, the nodal agency o...
Dr. Vasileios Stavropoulos, a senior lecturer in clinical psychology and coordinator of the Gaming Research Group at Federation University, Australia, says six criteria must be met in order to classify excessive internet gaming as an addiction. That criteria includes a frequent preoccupation or obse...
Addiction to the internet has taken alarming proportions. While internet addiction is not recognised as a separate disorder by the American Psychiatric Association, countries like China, South Korea and Taiwan have taken the matter seriously. It cannot be disregarded that technology has made t...
UrbanClap Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, one of the fastest growing start-ups in India, is a one stop destination for all urban lifestyle services. The Bengaluru-based home-services company was founded in mid-2014 by Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Varun Khaitan, and Raghav Chandra, with an aim to create an onlin...
The Narendra Modi government has initiated a process to corporatise the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), its 163 year- old main construction arm. The move is expected to strengthen the performance of CPWD by decentralising its ambit of operations. BE’s Shahana Banerjee spoke to Rajendra Kum...
Srei Equipment Finance Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, and Tata Motors have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to finance Tata Motors commercial vehicles with a special focus on construction and mining tippers. This move will enable Srei and Tata Mo...
India’s Small and Medium Business (SMB) sector has the potential to revolutionise India’s economic growth trajectory by growing at a rate of 23% per annum. It has already outpaced the industrial sector’s growth rate. According to a KPMG report, there are around 51 million SMBs in India, of whi...
The August flood in Mumbai was a wake-up call for many categories of people- ecologists, politicians, business persons, etc. It is now clearly visible, how in the wake of natural disasters, business and the economy are affected adversely. The importance for insuring businesses has become a necessity...
The nature of household labour is such that it doesn’t directly come under contractual labour, which is influenced by monetary exchange. Yet household labour is essential for the survival of the economy. The contribution of this segment is rarely recognised in terms of GDP and its economic value i...
India signed an agreement with Bangladesh providing $4.5 billion credit line for infrastructure projects. The loan was announced during Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India in April and is perhaps the biggest Line of Credit (LoC) provided by India to any country. After the ...