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India's Entry Into The Elite Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Club

March 27, 2019, marked a significant milestone in the history of Indian space science when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the successful testing of India’s first Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile.

Higher Education Should Create Knowledge And Promote Criticality

Higher education is at a critical juncture in India. The widening gap between education and employability has been a persistent problem of the Indian higher education system for some time now.

Technical Education Needs To Be Multi-Disciplinary

Education today should be student centric. The curriculum should be designed based on the needs of the students. To keep updated with latest technological development and industry requirements, education must be a continuously updating process.

Skill-Based Education To Overcome Job Crisis

India is projected to have the largest young workforce in the world by 2025 but is failing to cash in on this rich demographic dividend.

Education To Build A Resilient India

Debate on quality can be linked to the period after World War I (1920s) when scientific management made a breakthrough in American industrial units to improve efficiency.

Private Education In India

An important feature of the very high rate of growth of higher education in India, particularly since the beginning of the 1990s, is an alarming growth of the private higher education sector.

Forced Migration Increases Educational Vulnerability And Trafficking In Sunderbans

The Sunderbans, which is the largest delta in the world, is formed at the confluence of the mighty Ganga, Hooghly, Padma and Brahmaputra rivers.

Key Sectors Failing To Provide Employment

India is facing a decline in the total number of employed persons in the economy.

Uniformity Of Electricity Prices In India – Will It Work Out

The central government in various podiums claimed that they were able to bring the ‘One Nation one Tax’ system in the country.

Spiritual Awakening, The Bedrock Of Interfaith Harmony

One day while going through an English daily, I came across a news item that was headlined ‘Man-Made Barriers’.

Pure Water For The Needy

It was in 2014 that the then United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, “Access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene must feature prominently in the post2015 development agenda.

The Battle of Tariffs in the G7 Summit Affects India

American President Donald Trump has suggested to the G7 leaders that the world should eliminate all tariffs, trade barriers, and industrial subsides to promote free trade.

We Are Hopeful About The Turnaround By March 2019 - Pawan Bajaj

If you talk of a turnaround of the banking sector then yes, a turnaround has started.

The Vedas : A Science Ahead Of Modern Sciences

“India –the land of the Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.” – Ella Wheeler

Strict Surveillance Needed For Promotion Of Animal Rights

Every country is replete with innovations in policy: things that make life better for everyone. If we had a team in Niti Ayog, whose only job was to look through the Net and find these new strategies, then they could pass them on to the ministries.

Saluting The Achievements Of Iconic Indian Brands

Times Strategic Solutions Ltd., functional under the brand name ET Edge, is an Economic Times initiative founded to empower multiple industries and segments by sharing critical business knowledge through strategic conferences and summits.

Real Estate Market Expected To Touch $180 Billion By 2020

Last year, the central government extended the benefit of interest subsidy on home loans for households.

‘PSC Does Not Think Privatisation Is An Answer To Banking Crisis'

Parliamentary Standing Committee of Finance is very keen to solve the stressed assets of the banking industry in India. It has talked with various heads of organisations like RBI, SBI and other Public Sector Banks in phases. It is observing the internal and external factors behind the financial crisis and the management problem of the banking industry. In an exclusive interview Prof. Saugata Roy, MP, and a member of Standing Committee of Finance talked to BE’s Kishore Kumar Biswas on various issues related to banking industry.

Why Only Blood And Gore?

The coverage by the Indian news media is increasingly becoming morbid. Children beating up their parents and driving them out of the house; ruffians lynching people on mere grounds of suspicion; communal riots; murders and rapes; political hatred – these seem to be the staple food of the media today.

India Post Payments Bank

The Indian Postal Service (India Post) has a famed history of 150 years.

Tourism Turns A Big Contributor To GDP Growth

Travel and tourism sector is fast becoming an important contributor to economic growth. According to a recent report by World Economic Forum (WEF) travel and tourism industry accounts for 10% of global GDP and about 10% of jobs.

Tourism Promoted By North-Eastern States

The north-eastern Indian states cover a total area of around 2.62 lakh square kms.

Sikkim's Rich Organic Flora And Fauna

Sikkim was declared as the ‘first organic state in the country’ in 2016. The state was also awarded the ‘cleanest state in India’ by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) in September, 2016.

Temi Tea Tourism - Travels And Tales From South Sikkim

The sun rises with birds chirping and in the distance, one hears the pleasant hum of women talking as they walk through the narrow passages between the lush bushes of tea.

NIIT‘s Talent Pipeline Service creates trained manpower

The digital industry is expected to produce around 20 lakh jobs in India by 2020.

Kolkata Hospital Organised Course For Ortho Surgeons

The Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand (ISSH), a national association of hand surgeons, conducted a ‘Basic Hand Course’ on August 25 and 26, 2018, in association with the Kolkata Arthroscopy and Sports Surgery Society (KASS) at Medica Superspecialty Hospital.

‘Make In India' In Defence

Self-reliance in the defence sector has been a long cherished goal of the Indian policymakers.

BCC Organises National Seminar On Defence Production

The Bharat Chamber of Commerce (BCC) recently organised a national seminar and exhibition on Defence Production: Public-Private Partnership Focus Eastern India, in partnership with the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, Government of India in the Westin Hotel, Kolkata.

It Is Essential That Designers For Defence Products Function Closely With The End Users

Vice Admiral Bimalendu Guha retired from the Indian Navy in 1995 as the Flag Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command. He had also been the Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition. He is presently engaged as an independent maritime consultant. Guha spoke to BE's Ellora De regarding the different implications of the Make in India policy in the defence sector.

Bengal Chemicals: On The Way To Mini Ratna

Bengal Chemicals has started dreaming big. Riding on its recent successful turnaround after nearly seven decades of loss, the century-old pharmaceutical company is aiming for Mini Ratna status in the next 5 years.