ALFA Network Helping First Stage Entrepreneurs

In August 2017, a handful of professional experts came up with an idea of nurturing and fulfilling dreams for prospective entrepreneurs through the ALFA Network.

Infusion Of Money In PSBs Causes Mixed Reactions

The recent announcement of a plan for infusion of money to the Public Sector Banks (PSBs) is certainly hopeful.

Political Propaganda On The Internet

 With online access getting cheaper, gen-now seem to have taken to a new form of dependence.

Hungry Stomachs Go Up In India Unchecked

India has stopped counting its poor; it is counting its billionaires to showcase what a section regards as economic prosperity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Gujarat Model: A Huge Miss At Davos

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has initiated the process of becoming the world leader at Davos.

Automobile Industry Seems Promising

The Indian auto industry is one of the largest in the world.

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.

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.

All About Pate Foie Gras

Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Minister, Women & Child Welfare, GoI

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Key Sectors Failing To Provide Employment

India is facing a decline in the total number of employed persons in the economy.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Saluting The Achievements Of Iconic Indian Brands

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