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India’s Jet Airways aims to expand Europe market
May 30, 2016
Responding to the growing demand from the Europe market, Jet Airways, the second most prominent private airline of India, is all set to deploy six wide-body Boeing aircraft to Amsterdam, Paris and Toronto from August 2016. Jet Airways initiated moves to take back the six B777-300...
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A joint initiative against “conflict diamonds”
May 28, 2016
The European Union and India offered coordinated proposal to chair Kimberley Process (KP), a joint initiative of the governments, industry and civil societies to stem flow of “conflict diamonds” - the rough diamonds used by rebel movements to finance wars against legitimate g...
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Italian marines – Indian fishermen 2012 death case
May 27, 2016
India’s Supreme Court cleared the decks for the Italian marine Sergeant Major Salvatore Girone – who along with Chief Master Sergeant Massimiliano Latorre, is accused of killing two Indian fishermen off Kerala’s coast in South India in February 2012 – to l...
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Air India – Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’s latest pact
May 26, 2016
If your Rajdhani train ticket is not confirmed, Air India might welcome you on board. In the latest pact proposed and agreed between the Indian flag carrier and IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation); passengers with unconfirmed Rajdhani train tickets will be off...
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Untapped MICE market in India
May 25, 2016
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...
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Digital India
May 25, 2016
Keeping pace with the rest of the world, India has been moving to a digital economy fairly rapidly. However, there exists a ‘digital divide’ due to poor connectivity and other grey areas, which need to be addressed to leverage the digital economy. In response to some o...
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Drought
May 25, 2016
India is in the grip of a severe drought that has left over 330 million people in dire suffering. A look into the practices adopted by governments and people over the years indicates that the crisis that today threatens the existence of many could well have been avoided. Due to i...
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Women Workforce
May 25, 2016
There are several problems that prevent Indian women from entering the workforce. Despite realising that the effective presence of women could significantly boost India’s domestic productivity, there is little that has changed over the decades. We take a look at the facts and t...
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Smriti Irani
May 25, 2016
Reviving Education in India With a focus on engaging parents and children in the learning assessment process along with teachers and providing more transparency by putting registered institutions in public domain, efforts are being made for the resurgence of the Indian education ...
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Maurice Levy
May 25, 2016
World Economy: No Deep Crisis Yet The situation in the world economy though not very positive, is not something we all were not aware about. However, we are being a bit cautious to enter Iran as that was a completely closed market until now, says Levy. How important is the...
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Dev Sanyal
May 25, 2016
Technology: A Great Influencer for Oil Production Oil companies are the vanguards of technology. Though they need to work within the frameworks of the governments, their role cannot be overlooked, says Sanyal. Where will the oil settle down finally? That is the big ...
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Paul Sheard
May 25, 2016
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...
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