Month: February 2017

Volunteering has been deep rooted in Indians since ages. It may not be a mainstream part of the Indian culture, but knowingly or unknowingly, we all volunteer in our day to day lives. From taking notes in class for a friend to Hitchhiking, we have been there and done that! To understand what volunteering is, and how it works and helps people in their daily life, let us take the most typical example and the part and parcel of our life – traffic. Imagine yourself on a square where the…

Of late, India has been the focus of B2B growth. India has traversed a long journey from the pre-liberalisation and pre-globalisation era when the country was in the grip of bureaucratic red tape and ‘license raj’. Today the country is growing and has enjoyed robust growth since the last two decades. India B2B and ecommerce A huge growing base of middle-class population has benefited from the high growth. Today India is being viewed as a top B2b ecommerce prospect for long-term growth due to its huge population of more than…

In today’s competitive society, it is a dream for every parent to impart the best education to their children. But that dream tends to go hay way if the child on whom the parents have full faith does not deliver as per their wish. Who is to be held responsible for such a mindset? Things have changed from what it used to be a few years back. Take for example the current education system – in terms of the teaching methods used to the course curriculum introduced, it has undergone…

India is becoming more generous as it re-enters the top 100 most generous countries on the CAF World Giving Index, the unique global league of giving, according to new figures published recently. More people give money, volunteer and help a stranger in India than in any other country on earth, according to the index, produced by the Charities Aid Foundation. The number of Indians helping stranger, giving money and volunteering their time are both up, according to the index, which measures people giving their time, their money and helping others.…

As is the case with so many IT concepts, the razzmatazz that surrounded Cloud computing when it came to forefront of conscious attention of the business some 10 years back has not still vanished. On the contrary, with the passage of time, it is gaining in popularity. When it comes to cloud computing, a fast emerging style of IT delivery, in India most of the organizations are now reconciled to idea of relying on it for their general business operations. Hence, over the years there has been aggressive adoption of…

In the first ever opinion poll conducted in Uttar Pradesh after the surgical strikes by Axis-My-India for India Today Group, the BJP is all set to emerge as a single largest party in the state which will go to polls in 2017. According to the Axis-My-India poll, the BJP is slated for the first spot, bagging between 170 and 183 seats.In the last Lok Sabha general elections, the BJP had performed spectacularly by winning a landslide 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state. While 115-124 seats will…

Leaders of BRICS nations – India, Russia, Brazil, China and South Africa – recently met in the western Indian state of Goa on Oct. 15-16 for the group’s 8th summit. BRICS members are all developing countries and represents 43 percent of the world population, having 30 percent of the world GDP and 17 percent share in the world trade. The acronym BRIC was first used in 2001 by Goldman Sachs in their global economics paper, which predicted that the economies of Brazil, India, Russia and China would be among the…

These are hey days for entrepreneurship around the world. In the not-so-distant past, entrepreneurship was a word which was viewed with skepticism. Today entrepreneurship is a word liked by all. Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship comes in all shapes and sizes. Entrepreneurship is all about starting an initiative by undertaking risk and sustaining risk. In popular parlance, business entrepreneurship is associated with starting a new business. Entrepreneurial businesses come in all shapes and sizes. The idea of entrepreneurship has struck a responsive chord among all sections of the…

In the biggest-ever black money+ disclosure, at least Rs 65,250 crore of undisclosed assets were declared in the one-time compliance window, yielding the government Rs 29,362 crore in taxes. While the black money declarations will go up once all the online and manual filings of undisclosed assets filed at the end of the four-month window on September 30 are compiled, the government will get nearly Rs 14,700 crore or half of the due taxes, this fiscal. Announcing the declarations made under the Income Declaration Scheme+ (IDS), finance minister Arun Jaitley…

The two-day Conference of State Power, New & Renewable Energy & Mines Ministers concluded in Vadodara, Gujarat. It was attended by Ministers and senior Officials from the 20 participating States and 2 Union Territories, Secretaries and officers of the Union Ministries of Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, along with the Chairpersons of Central and State PSUs. Addressing the media after the conclusion of the two-day conference, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal informed that consensus was…