Varsha Singh
Passionate about social issues, especially children and women’s rights, rising inequity and human rights, Varsha Singh, a Post-Graduate in English (Hons) from Calcutta University and Mass Communications from St Xavier’s Calcutta, gravitated naturally to journalism in 2013. Varsha has made her passions the subject matter of her work and she has been writing regularly about these issues, besides business, tourism, culture and politics. Of late, Varsha has been pursuing another passion, multimedia journalism making videos reports on social issues and current affairs, looking at them with a different lens. Outside of her work, Varsha is equally passionate about cinema, music, travel and tea. Indeed, she is the inhouse film and music encyclopedia and a full-time chai-o-holic.
Helping Indian farmers to get the right prices
October 15, 2018
The Maharashtra State Agricultural Marketing Board (MSAMB) has submitted a proposal of EUR 13.5 million for construction of 108 godowns in the 108 Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs) in the state.
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Spirituality in North-East India
October 5, 2018
The north-eastern region has various ancient traditions of spiritualism that are followed by the indigenous people and are known as animism, syncretism, or ancestor worshipping – they believe in cosmic oneness where everything is considered to be one.
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West Bengal woos British tourists for Durga Puja
October 5, 2018
The British club in Kolkata and the Bengal Chamber organised an event on ‘A tale of two festive cities – Durga Puja in London and Kolkata’ at the British Club on September 28, 2018.
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Promoting tourism through national tourism awards
October 2, 2018
With an aim to promote tourism and encourage healthy competition amongst travel and tour operators and other private organisations, the ministry of tourism annually presents national tourism awards to various segments of the travel, tourism and hospitality industry.
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India tinkers with import duties to reduce trade deficit
October 1, 2018
With the aim of reducing India’s trade deficit, boost domestic manufacturing and to support the rupee the government has increased customs duty on 19 “non- essential items” including washing machines, refrigerators, radial tyres, and ATF.
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