Business
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Minting Marriages
If the bubble of dotcom had not gone bust way back in the late 90’s, Murugavel Janakiraman probably would have been just another cog in the constantly spinning gears of the IT world.
4 min |
November 1-15, 2017
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Smart Minds Smarter Ideas
The Dalal Street hosted by La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata, has provided an opportunity to students to employ their theoretical knowledge of business and economics to real world situations.
2 min |
November 1-15, 2017
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Crime Dynamics At The Indo-bangladesh Border In West Bengal
The porosity of the Indo-Bangladesh border permeates several outlawed activities like illegal infiltration, human trafficking, smuggling of gold, illegal cattle trade, circulation of counterfeit currency, narcotics trade and robbery.
4 min |
November 1-15, 2017
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Media Need To Evolve Along The Golden Mean
The Prime Minister, before his departure to Davos to speak at the World Economic Forum, gave a remarkable interview to a television channel – perhaps one of his best so far.
2 min |
March 1-15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Organ Transplant
A hundred years from now, if scientists have their way, many humans will be partly pig and baboon. I mean really, not metaphorically
6 min |
March 1-15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Gujarat Model: A Huge Miss At Davos
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has initiated the process of becoming the world leader at Davos.
2 min |
March 1-15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Automobile Industry Seems Promising
The Indian auto industry is one of the largest in the world.
3 min |
March 1-15, 2018
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Globalisation And The Indian Philosophy Of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
For the last several years, we have been witnessing discourses on globalisation, global changes, and their effects upon individuals, societies, and states. Seminars, symposiums and debates are being organised continuously on subjects related to globalisation and global changes.
3 min |
May 16-31, 2019
BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Optimisation Of Indian Farms For Feeding Growing Millions
When one thinks of Indian agriculture two images invariably come to mind; that of a bare-footed farmer ploughing on a dry field and of FCI warehouses overflowing with food grains.
6 min |
May 16-31, 2019
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
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 |