Tech provider Sabre gains grounds in India

Internet users base grew at 40% in India in 2015

Internet users in India reached to 277 million, making it the only country in 2015 with a growth rate of 40%. India became the world’s second largest country in terms of Internet users, ahead of US and behind China, even if retail online sales have been much less dynamic recent...

Europe India Foundation for Excellence

As Modi government completed two years in office, one of his pet schemes, Skill India, was in focus here in Paris as UNESCO hosted a Global Skill Development Meet, attended by delegations from various countries around the world. The meet was organised by the Europe India Foundati...

India seeks to be the Human Resource Capital of the World

India is all set to achieve the goal of becoming the Human Resource (HR) capital of the world by exporting the country’s surplus manpower after a proper training. Ministry of skill development has started working on the project by setting up 11 training centers in the states li...

India becomes a $2 trillion dollars economy

The acceleration of growth in the 4th quarter – January-March, at 7.9% has powered the Indian economy that has crossed the symbolic mark of a 2 trillion dollars economy, at INR exchange rate of around 67 dollars. On the whole, in 2015-2016, India grew at 7.6%, boosted by th...

Untapped MICE market in India

India unlike China, Japan or Korea remained uncannily inert in terms capitalising the global MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and events) market in the last decade. It’ll be interesting to observe what the government intends to do to boost it in the next five years. The...

Paul Sheard

Fall of Oil Boon or Bane? The decline in oil prices has both losers and winners globally. To combat the geopolitical and federal risks everybody has to interrogate their economic forecasts, says Sheard.   How was the global economic situation in 2015 and how do you see it in...

A study by New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment

If you are visiting India avoid bread. It could be laced with toxic chemicals which are serious health hazards. According to a study by New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment, Indian bread manufacturers use potassium bromate and potassium iodate for treating flour whi...

Apple’s increasing focus on India

A new push for Indian IT: Apple is all set to launch its first developer centre in Bengaluru, India by early 2017. The American multinational company Apple Inc. is increasing its focus on India and announced its plans to launch the first ever iOS application design and developmen...

Latest e-Tourist visa numbers in India

The e-tourist visa scheme by the Indian government is trying to impose itself as the game-changer for the country’s tourism industry. But the announcement of a mammoth growth figure of 266 pc on e-visa arrival in April 2016 compared to the same period in 2015, contrasts sha...

Global consultant report

Indian companies based in Britain are boosting the growth rates in the country with huge foreign direct investment and creating massive job opportunities. This finding comes from global consultant Grant Thornton UK. Some of the interesting findings from the ten page report points...

Drop in sales for Apple

Apple witnessed a decline in its revenue sales for the first time in 13 years, by around 13 pc. But the Indian market remains strong with a 56 percent year-over-year growth in iPhone sales. On April 26, 2016, Apple Inc., an American multinational technology company reported a fal...