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.
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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Paytm opens its complaining booth yet again, this time against Google Pay
September 26, 2018
Paytm has complained that Google Pay’s privacy policy amounted to “clear disregard for a consumer’s need for privacy”, following which Google Pay has tweaked its privacy policy and has now dropped the word “disclose” from its privacy clause.
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Electronic vehicles: steering the way to a cleaner future
September 24, 2018
The auto industry in India is preparing itself for a slew of changes in order to cut down the crude oil import bill and reduce pollution.
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RBI warns of the increasing rise in bank frauds
September 7, 2018
The number of fraud cases which averaged 4,500 a year in the past 10 years, increased to 5,835 in 2017-18, according to RBI reports. Public sector banks (PSBs) accounted for 92.9 pc of the amount involved in frauds of more than INR 0.1 million in 2017-18, while private sector ban...
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Solar installations in India drop down
September 7, 2018
With the solar installations declining in Q2 2018, reports say that investment into the sector is expected to be lower over the next few quarters.
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Technology elevating museums in India
August 31, 2018
Museums these days are not only about showcasing artefacts but with the technological interventions like artificial intelligence, 3D models and HD displays museums in India are reinventing themselves.
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Trade: Will India cede to the US?
August 30, 2018
Despite closer than ever strategic ties, all is not well with the trade relations between India and the United States. Even though India is a key market for US businesses and is a strategic political ally for the White House, the two sides are engaged in a damaging trade war.
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Mobile Teaching Kitchen: Nutrition on wheels
August 29, 2018
Nutritional education in India should be given utmost importance as one in four children in the most populous cities is malnourished.
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