Presently, the priority for major pharmaceutical companies is to discover a vaccine for the coronavirus (Covid-19/SARS-CoV-2). Dr. Kuntal Ghosh, Consultant, Palliative Care Unit, Saroj Gupta Cancer Research Centre and Research Institute (SGCCRI), West Bengal, informed BE, “Different countrie...
According to a report by the EAT-Lancet Commission, “Food is the single strongest lever to optimise human health and environmental sustainability on Earth.” However, according to experts, there is an immense challenge in providing healthy diets from sustainable food systems to the ever-growing w...
In recent times, the banking and the financial sector in India has been plagued with a number of controversies. In November 2019, the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMC) came down due to corrupt lending. It was followed by the Yes Bank crisis. According to industry insiders, the following...
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit India at a time when the Indian economy itself has been on a downward trajectory since 2018-19. According to an English daily, India’s growth fell from around 8% in Q4 FY to a new low of 4.5% in Q2 FY2020, on a quarterly basis. Media sources state that India suffered ...
The Covid-19 pandeic has adversely impacted the Indian economy. Shaunak Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Commerce St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata informed BE, “While less than 25% of India’s $2.8 trillion economy remains functional at the present, India is pegg...
The agricultural sector is one of the worst sufferers of the lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Though the central and state governments in India acted quickly to aid the agricultural sector in this crisis period, several agricultural experts are of the opinion that more immediate corrective...
In the current economic situation, economists Amartya Sen, Raghuram Rajan, and Abhijit Banerjee have come forward with a number of important suggestions.They have suggested that temporary ration cards should be made available to people who are excluded from the Public Distribution System (PDS)...
Information Technology (IT) is one of the top two industries in India today. IT and Information Technology- Enabled Services (IT-ITeS) sector is undergoing rapid evolution. It is transforming Indian businesses. The sector includes software development, consultancies, software management, online serv...
According to several industry insiders, most Indians would buy a mattress as long as it is thick. However, few have heard of the ‘memory foam’. A NASA project in the 1970s for upgrading seat cushioning and crash protection for pilots and passengers gave birth to this type of foam. The material m...
In 2017, the global wellness tourism segment, valued at $639 billion, had a growth rate of 6.5%, outstripping the growth rate of the aggregate global tourism sector - which was growing at 3.2% in that period. During the same period, India ranked seventh in the top 20 wellness tourism markets and ten...
