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Travel And Tourism Industry In India: Venturing Into The Reality

India offers a great tourism potential not only for the Indians but to the foreign travellers as well.

Reality-Check Of The Economy

The first few months of 2019 have seen the lowest new investment proposals in India in the last 14 years.

Indian Railways Facilitating Tourism

In India, railways and tourism are interconnected.

Gandhian Concept Of Human Equality: An Ideal Social Order To Resolve Conflicts

The Gandhian thought is based on the eternal truth.

Effects Of Increase In Gold Prices

In the latest Union Budget, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitaraman, proposed to increase the import duty on gold from 10% to 12.5%.

Diversification And Innovation In Indian Tourism

Indian tourism has a huge unrealised potential.

Beyond Incredible India!

The ‘Incredible India’ campaign was launched in 2002 by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India to promote India as a global tourist destination. Sagnik Chowdhury, Regional Director (East), India Tourism, spoke to BE’s Aritra Mitra.

The Economy Can Be Back On High Growth Track In Three Months With Proper Administrative Measures

The infrastructure sector in India is slowing down. BE’s Kishore Kumar Biswas and Tushar K. Mahanti spoke to Hemant Kanoria, Chairman, Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited, regarding the PPP model in infrastructure and the role of NBFCs.

FATF Places Pakistan In ‘Enhanced Blacklist'

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.

Telecom Infra In India Not Ready For 5G

By July 2018, India had the world’s second largest internet user base with over 44.6 crore smart phones and 56 crore internet users.

Social Audit Of All Infrastructure Schemes Need To Be Made Mandatory

Infrastructure in a way is the essential “inners” of any development plan.

Power Infra Improving, But Debt Is A Problem

Absence of electricity has been an inherent feature of rural India.

Nature Beat: Flora And Fauna

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Member of Parliament (Lok Shabha).

Infrastructure Spending Key To Revive The Fledging Economy

“You and I come by road or rail, but economists come by infrastructure,” Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s longest-serving prime minister and the first woman elected to that office had observed while highlighting the role of infrastructure in a nation’s life.

Fire Ravages ‘Earth's Lungs'

The Amazon rainforest has been burning for several weeks, becoming a global crisis.

Digital Footprints: Changing Face Of Lending Landscape

In this digital age, business processes are witnessing makeovers every other day.

Crafting Peace For Restoring The Valley's Lost Glory

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, 2019.

Boosting Aviation Infrastructure

Airports being the nuclei of myriad economic activities assume a significant role in the economy of a nation.

Banking On Technology

Way back in 2008, when Arjun Shetty and his wife Rati, both working in Seattle, USA, were exploring various options which included relocating to India, they started looking for financing avenues for setting up their home in Chennai.

Crop Insurance Schemes To Help Farmers

According to the Economic Survey 2018, long-term weather patterns indicate that climate change could reduce annual agricultural incomes in the range of 15% to 18% on average and up to 20% to 25% for unirrigated areas in India.

Minimum Support Price Should Be More Equitable And Broad-Based

In India, the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices recommends the minimum support prices (MSP) for agricultural commodities (currently for 23 products). On the basis of the recommendation, the Government of India announces the MSPs at the beginning of the sowing seasons. The MSP is a form of market intervention by the government which guarantees highest prices at which the government is ready to buy the entire products of certain crops directly from the farmers.

Weather Forecasting And Sustainability

An idea of sustainability in agriculture

Are We Letting Our Work Take Away Our Life

Modern life, whatever it means, has made us strive for more. All of us have this innate desire to progress and grow in our professions, careers, and businesses and acquire more fame, wealth, land and accolades. Although growth may be a noble mission, we may get carried away and cross the thin line where progress may involve running in a rat race.

Uttarakhand As A Hotspot For Yoga And Ayurveda

The telephone poles, windows of cyber cafes and restaurants, and walls of the ashrams are plastered with signs advertising every form of yoga imaginable -- from the traditional, standardized and internationally renowned Iyengar tradition to obscure, mysterious offerings for “Tantra, Yantra and Mantra.” The yoga courses and classes at our own ashram are full to capacity 12 months a year. Students of every religion, every culture and every language flock from every corner of the Earth to come and study asanas, pranayama, meditation and Indian philosophy.

'Don't Provide Masala To Media'

The Prime Minister finally warns his political colleagues not to provide ‘masala’ for the media.

Media's ‘public space' and government control

So finally it came. The I&B Minister moved forward, then backward and then, forward again.

Gender sensitivity— A pressing concern

One of the most pertinent issues that troubles India is the issue of gender sensitivity.

Dr. H. P. Kanoria's Women Self-Empowerment Mission

The Women Self-Empowerment Mission is a noble initiative aimed at the self-empowerment of women from the Barhiya village situated in Bihar.

The NPA Conundrum

Arguably, the year will be remembered and referenced in days to come for a mixed bag of economic events.

Branding The Entrepreneurs

The first thing any marketing or advertising wizard must know about branding for entrepreneurs is that entrepreneurs have no money.