Business
UK-India FTA: Building bridges beyond Brexit
February 7, 2022
Five years ago, on June 23, 2016, the British people stunned the world by voting yes in the referendum on Brexit. Although the countdown to leave the European Union began in the British summer, Britain had already been working towards establishing direct trade and economic relati...
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Covid-19 pushes engineering students further behin...
January 20, 2022
In 2018, after spending over INR 800,000 for four years for a B Tech degree from one of the top engineering colleges in Delhi, Raj Sharma (name changed) sat in the placement drive organised by his college. Despite having a degree in mechanical engineering, he was rejected in the ...
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Zee and Sony merger to raise heat in television sp...
January 2, 2022
Seeking to consolidate its entertainment businesses, sprawled across the world, Japanese conglomerate Sony had zeroed in on India as a market where it would either seek to be in the top three players or exit the market entirely. As part of this exercise, Sony had been aggressivel...
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India 4th most prone to spam calls & cyber cri...
December 23, 2021
Over 202 million calls were made from just one number in India in a period of 10 months, or over 664000 calls every day, 27000 calls every hour of every day or 450 calls per minute every minute of every day in the period. That mindboggling figure explains the extent of spamming t...
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Cryptocurrency still under crosshair in India
December 19, 2021
Unlike gold, silver or physical banknotes, a cryptocurrency is a digital form of money in form of a few lines of code. Until now, no Central Bank has issued any cryptocurrency in the world, which are created by using blockchain technology and a cryptography network. The cryptogra...
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Need to be vigilant against farmers’ exploit...
December 9, 2021
Last week, an intellectual property right given to foods giant, PepsiCo, was nullified by the Protection of Plants Varieties and Farmer’s Right Authority (PPVFRA). Using the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) certificate, Pepsi had demanded large amounts of compensation from fa...
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Beginning of new era for e-sports in India
December 3, 2021
On December 1, 16 teams from around the world gathered in Berlin to participate in the Valorant 2021 Champions Tour (VCT) where they have been testing their mettle in e-sports in order to claim not just the championship, but also the prize money of USD 1 million. Though India doe...
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GDP growth data hides deep potholes on road to rec...
December 1, 2021
The growth in Indian economy in the second quarter of the current year was more or less as per expectation of analysts. With 8.4 pc growth in the quarter ending September 30, added to the 20.1 pc growth registered in first quarter of the fiscal year, Indian Gross Domestic Product...
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Paytm collapse may cool IPO fever in India
November 23, 2021
Paytm’s founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma does not believe in doing things small or moderate. Though he had founded the firm in 2010 for mobile recharges, Sharma and Paytm hit pay dirt only in 2016 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi abolished high value currency notes in a di...
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New pathways needed to conclude EU-India FTA negot...
November 12, 2021
It was way back in 2007 that the European Union and India opened negotiations for a free trade agreement between the two regions as part of the Strategic Partnership between the two sides signed in 2004. Now, over 14 years later, the agreement is still nowhere in sight, even thou...
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