Four friends suddenly decided to go on a weekend trip. A number of arrangements were to be made – booking tickets, arranging transportation and reserving hotel. The time was limited. One of them suggested that the others pay him through Google Pay and he will make the arrangements online, which he...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents opportunities to complement human intelligence and enhance the way of living and working. AI is poised to disrupt the human world with intelligent machines enabled of high-level cognitive processes like thinking, perceiving, learning, problem solving and decisio...
Aritra Basu, a postgraduate in English and a prospective applicant for the post of guest lecturer, shared his problems with BE. He said, “The government (of West Bengal) circular released on July 13, 2019, has affected me immensely. A week before that, I was selected as a guest lecturer at a reput...
The PDP Group has been in the logistics sector for more than three decades with the motto ‘moving beyond logistics’. Pramod Kumar Srivastava, CEO and Director, PDP Group, spoke to BE’s Aritra Mitra regarding the problems and prospects in the sector.Q. What challenges do you face as an importan...
In the latest Union Budget, Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitaraman, proposed to increase the import duty on gold from 10% to 12.5%. The decision came at a time when the domestic jewellery industry was demanding a cut in import duty. In the past, the Indian commerce ministry had also recommended a reduc...
In India, railways and tourism are interconnected. Indian railways is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting over 18 million passengers and more than two million tons of freight daily. It is the world’s largest commercial utility employer with more than 1.4 million...
With an estimated 19 million pets, and 600,000 pets being adopted every year, the pet food industry in India shows huge potential. There has been an increasing awareness about pet nutrition and pet owners are becoming more conscious about pet care products. Growth is recorded in all categories inclu...
Airports being the nuclei of myriad economic activities assume a significant role in the economy of a nation. The quality of airport infrastructure, which is a vital component of the overall transportation network, contributes directly to a country's international competitiveness and towards the flo...
The Asia Pacific Group (APG) of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has placed Pakistan in the ‘Enhanced Blacklist’ due to its failure to act on terror funding. They also found that Pakistan was non-compliant on 32 of the 40 compliance parameters of terror financing and money laundering. Paki...
One is reminded of Charles Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop as one steps into Russel Exchange, a 79-year-old auction house at Russell Street in Kolkata. Everything – clothes, furniture, sculptures, chandeliers, crockeries – is saleable in Russel Exchange. A garment auction is held here every Th...