Business
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
All About Pate Foie Gras
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Minister, Women & Child Welfare, GoI
6 min |
May 16-31, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
India's Entry Into The Elite Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Club
March 27, 2019, marked a significant milestone in the history of Indian space science when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the successful testing of India’s first Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile.
4 min |
May 16-31, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Higher Education Should Create Knowledge And Promote Criticality
Higher education is at a critical juncture in India. The widening gap between education and employability has been a persistent problem of the Indian higher education system for some time now.
3 min |
June 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Technical Education Needs To Be Multi-Disciplinary
Education today should be student centric. The curriculum should be designed based on the needs of the students. To keep updated with latest technological development and industry requirements, education must be a continuously updating process.
3 min |
June 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Skill-Based Education To Overcome Job Crisis
India is projected to have the largest young workforce in the world by 2025 but is failing to cash in on this rich demographic dividend.
3 min |
June 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Education To Build A Resilient India
Debate on quality can be linked to the period after World War I (1920s) when scientific management made a breakthrough in American industrial units to improve efficiency.
2 min |
June 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Private Education In India
An important feature of the very high rate of growth of higher education in India, particularly since the beginning of the 1990s, is an alarming growth of the private higher education sector.
3 min |
June 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Forced Migration Increases Educational Vulnerability And Trafficking In Sunderbans
The Sunderbans, which is the largest delta in the world, is formed at the confluence of the mighty Ganga, Hooghly, Padma and Brahmaputra rivers.
5 min |
April 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Key Sectors Failing To Provide Employment
India is facing a decline in the total number of employed persons in the economy.
4 min |
April 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Uniformity Of Electricity Prices In India – Will It Work Out
The central government in various podiums claimed that they were able to bring the ‘One Nation one Tax’ system in the country.
4 min |
April 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Spiritual Awakening, The Bedrock Of Interfaith Harmony
One day while going through an English daily, I came across a news item that was headlined ‘Man-Made Barriers’.
4 min |
April 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Pure Water For The Needy
It was in 2014 that the then United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, “Access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene must feature prominently in the post2015 development agenda.
3 min |
April 1-15, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
The Battle of Tariffs in the G7 Summit Affects India
American President Donald Trump has suggested to the G7 leaders that the world should eliminate all tariffs, trade barriers, and industrial subsides to promote free trade.
5 min |
July 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
We Are Hopeful About The Turnaround By March 2019 - Pawan Bajaj
If you talk of a turnaround of the banking sector then yes, a turnaround has started.
4 min |
July 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
The Vedas : A Science Ahead Of Modern Sciences
“India –the land of the Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.” – Ella Wheeler
5 min |
July 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Strict Surveillance Needed For Promotion Of Animal Rights
Every country is replete with innovations in policy: things that make life better for everyone. If we had a team in Niti Ayog, whose only job was to look through the Net and find these new strategies, then they could pass them on to the ministries.
4 min |
July 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Saluting The Achievements Of Iconic Indian Brands
Times Strategic Solutions Ltd., functional under the brand name ET Edge, is an Economic Times initiative founded to empower multiple industries and segments by sharing critical business knowledge through strategic conferences and summits.
2 min |
July 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Real Estate Market Expected To Touch $180 Billion By 2020
Last year, the central government extended the benefit of interest subsidy on home loans for households.
4 min |
July 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
‘PSC Does Not Think Privatisation Is An Answer To Banking Crisis'
Parliamentary Standing Committee of Finance is very keen to solve the stressed assets of the banking industry in India. It has talked with various heads of organisations like RBI, SBI and other Public Sector Banks in phases. It is observing the internal and external factors behind the financial crisis and the management problem of the banking industry. In an exclusive interview Prof. Saugata Roy, MP, and a member of Standing Committee of Finance talked to BE’s Kishore Kumar Biswas on various issues related to banking industry.
2 min |
July 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Social Media Is Changing India, But Not Fully
A recent report published by the Reuters Foundation in collaboration with Oxford University reveals that India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing markets for US based technology companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter. India’s Twitter users currently number at 26.7 million, and as of July 2017, Facebook reported that India overtook the United States to become the platform’s largest audience by country with a userbase of 241 million active users.
2 min |
January 1 - 15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Create Your Destiny
Recently, FICCI FLO, Kolkata chapter organised an event with Brahmakumari Sister Shivani and to mark a remarkable ending to the year 2017. The event was held at Kalamandir, Kolkata on December 16, and the topic of the evening was ‘Create your Destiny.’
1 min |
January 1 - 15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
A Day With Science
The city of Kolkata is incomplete without Science City.
2 min |
January 1 - 15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
'Government Has Taken Steps To Contain Food Price Rise'
Agriculture is a key sector in India and it employs around 52% of our population. The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare implements the rules, regulations, and laws related to the agricultural sector in India. The department’s ambit covers agriculture, food processing, and cooperation. BE’s Madhu Raina spoke to Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on the agricultural sector and his department’s policies related to the sector.
7 min |
January 1 - 15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Artificial Intelligence To Complement, Not Compete With Humans In The Indian Legal System
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained great momentum in various sectors. In the Indian legal field, AI is yet to reach its full potential. Yet, Indian firms are looking into this potential treasure trove of innovative assistance.
3 min |
January 1 - 15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Is There An Indian Media?
Is There An Indian Media?
2 min |
January, 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
The Progress Of Brexit
Recent reports suggest that Brexit will open up a vast €10.2billion (£8.99bn) hole in the European Union’s coffers when Britain permanently quits the bloc in 2021 – leaving bigger bills for other European Union nations.Richard L. Gosling, a prominent UK-based businessman, spoke to BE’s Shahana Banerjee on how far the process of Brexit has been realised and sheds light on the challenges that lie ahead.
3 min |
January, 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Water ATMs In Delhi
63.4 million living without access to clean water in India
3 min |
January, 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Why 'Make In India?
Why 'Make In India?
3 min |
January, 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Joblessness Continues, 77% Families Have No Regular Wage Earner
Satyajit Ray’s famous Bengali film, Seemabaddha (1971), opens with the dialogue that translates to, “One of the major problems in Bengal is unemployment.”
5 min |
November 1 - 15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Cyber Shikshaa To Strengthen Cyber Security And Generate Employment
Microsoft India, the National Association for Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), and the Indian government have jointly launched a three-year programme to train 1000 women engineering graduates in cyber security.
4 min |