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How Spirituality Strengthens Humanity

Human life is considered a unique blessing, which lies in the achievement of awareness about self.

Is The Developed World Going To Face Recession? How Should India Prepare?

Almost everyday well circulated newspapers around the world are reportedly pointing out that the US and most of the countries in the Eurozone are going to face economic recession in the coming quarters.

India needs to look within to become a world leader

While we take pride in India’s remarkable progress in the world, we often tend to forget to look inwards.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Nation Builder and a True Democrat

“Our mutual conflicts and internecine quarrels and jealousies have in the past been the cause of our downfall and our falling victims to foreign dominations a number of times. We cannot afford to fall into those errors and traps again.” – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Hindi version of the book - Reporting India' is out

The literary circles in Delhi recently celebrated the unveiling of Hindi translation of an amazing book penned by the legendary journalist of India, Shri Prem Prakash.

The Young Indians (YI), Kolkata Chapter celebrates Children's Day on a different note

On the occasion of Children’s Day on 14th November’22, The Young Indians (YI), Kolkata Chapter, The Youth Wing of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) initiated the ‘Flight of Fantasy’ project where they flew down 14 children from the 2 Kolkata based NGO’s Don Bosco Ashalayam and MSS to Mumbai, India’s dream city.

Indian Copper market is gaining pace amidst global recession

In contrast to the global economy, India is picking up the pace in recent times.

FAFAI celebrates Silver Jubilee with First Kolkata Convention

The Fragrances and Flavours Association of India (FAFAI) recently organised a curtain raiser at ITC Sonar Bangla, Kolkata to mark their upcoming Silver Jubilee Edition Convention & Expo.

India can boost growth with lower inequity by implementing five policies

Are many of the developed economies of Europe, USA and some others going to enter into economic recession in the coming quarters? Has India been doing well in economic development? Many other contemporary issues were discussed byPrabhatPatnayak, professor emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University and a social activist, in his speech on the occasion of 100th anniversary of All India Reserve Bank Employees’ Association in Kolkata. Later he spoke to Kishore Kumar Biswas on some other relevant issues. The summery of Patnayak’s views are given below:

Price of yellow metal at a hike on constant basis

The gold market is seeing constant profits as prices are constantly increasing for the yellow metal.

India is projected to drive global economic growth

India is on track to become the world’s third largest economy by 2027, edging past Japan and Germany, says a new Morgan Stanley research report. India will account for a fifth of total global economic growth in the next decade.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited with headquarters in Mumbai; is India’s third largest private sector bank by market capitalisation as of November 2021.

Persisting inflation hindering growth and increasing hardship of people

Price inflation in the Indian economy has been persisting by more than 6% - the upper tolerance limit of RBI - for 10 months in a row. It is mandatory for the RBI to answer India’s government if the inflation remains 6% or more for more than two quarters sequentially.

Central Bank Digital Currency - A Financial Revolution

November 1 witnessed India’s central bank launching the digital currency (Rupee) in the wholesale segment.

Two episodes of US inflation and responses: Are there any lessons?

The central bank of the United States (US), the Federal Reserve (the Fed) has been on a “war path to fight inflation” since May this year.

Digital Lending: New Guidelines To Shape Up

The Reserve Bank of India has come out with two pronouncements recently on digital lending guidelines and outsourcing of recovery agents by regulated entities (read financial lenders) to ensure orderly growth and protect borrowers in this space.

How The Strengthening US Dollar Could Spell Trouble For The Global Economy

The US Dollar has seen a near-continuous rise since May 2021, growing from 0.82 to almost 1 against the Euro, 0.71 to 0.84 against the Pound Sterling, and 108 to 137 against the Yen.

The End Of The Pandemic Is Far Enough

According to scientists, the issue with pandemics and epidemics is that they do not always come to conclusions. Scientific innovations like the ‘magic bullet treatment’ can prove to be effective in such cases but it is still doubtful that we will observe any such thing in near future

Why Inflation In India Will Remain High

Two years ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic gripped the world, developed economies benevolently extended unemployment benefits along with job protection schemes.

India at 75

When the British left India after 200 years, it drained the country of resources worth according one statistics (Utsa Patnaik) $45 trillion. Today, after 75 years of its independence, we are struggling to become a $5 trillion economy.

Credit facilities and indebtedness of Indian farmers

Several studies observe that if the cash benefits are timely reached it has really helped the farmers through technology adoption and realization of higher returns for the farmers.

Rural India has left the pandemic behind

The Indian economy along with the global economy have faced three heavy challenges in the recent past – the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war and climate change. However, the story of India’s rural economy has been one of resilience.

Agriculture sector after achieving a lot facing a sustainable crisis for a decade

After about a four-decade spell of good returns the agricultural sector, particularly the small and mid-size farming segments, are facing severe problems.

Indian economy climbs to become the fifth largest economy in the world, yet millions go hungry

Once branded a "third world country", a term used for poor developing countries, India is now among the largest economies of the world.

IBC is hitting at the idea of a welfare state by ignoring possible recovery chance of a stressed company

Enterprises, with consistent track record of making profits, when adversely affected by external factors, are being pushed to insolvency instead of being provided some support to come to tide over the temporary problems.

Digital Payments: The Road Ahead

The digital payment infrastructure in India has leapfrogged to a stupendous height.

Inflation In The Indian Economy

Starting from the global financial crisis of 2007-08, the world economy has been more or less in a mess.

GST in India- after five years of its journey

On July 1, 2017, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was implemented in India.

India's real estate sector on growth trajectory

Bengal Peerless aims to provide business and living space to all sections of society. Ketan Sengupta, CEO Bengal Peerless Housing Development Co. Ltd spoke to BE on their expansion plan.

INDIA IS PROJECTED TO GROW OVER 7% AMIDST GLOBAL DECELERATION

"The war in Ukraine, lockdowns in China, supply-chain disruptions, and the risk of stagflation are hampering growth.