Make in India Week set to rival Hannover Messe The week-long exposition of India’s potential as a manufacturing powerhouse will be one of the largest events of its kind in the country with participation from government and industry leaders from home and abroad ablock within the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), an otherwise serene office district in Mumbai, is abuzz with activity. ... Read More »
Battling doctor shortage, Indian hospitals offer intensive care from afar A doctor at a hospital in India’s capital, New Delhi, was recently tracking a wall of monitors displaying the vital signs of intensive care patients admitted hundreds of miles away when red-and-yellow alerts rang out. The oxygen flow to a 67-year-old patient had stopped when no critical care doctors were ... Read More »
Let us pledge to enroll as many farmers as possible in the crop insurance scheme: PM Let us pledge to enroll as many farmers as possible in the crop insurance scheme: PM Read More »
Ageing – the bigger picture The winners have been announced in an international photo contest from online photography community Photocrowd.com in partnership with the British Society of Gerontology on the theme of ageing. This picture of Agnes from the series Eyes as Big as Plates is a collaboration between Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen and was selected in first place ... Read More »
GST, competitive logistics, e-mandis and food processing parks may integrate to sell daal at Rs 20/kg and mangoes at Rs 10/kg The population of India has more than doubled from 684 million in 1981 to 1.25 billion in 2011 in just 30 years. This is a frightening pace of growth. Compare this with other parts of the world. Look at ... Read More »
What Israel’s startup scene can teach the world Israel is a tiny country with an outsized impact on tech. Not only does it house as many as 3,000 tech-related startups (centred around Tel Aviv), but more than $6-billion a year flows into the country through exits (mergers, acquisitions or IPOs), according to Israel’s IVC Research Center. Yossi Vardi, 73, sometimes ... Read More »
Wi-fi fitted in train station to help India get online India, which has the busiest rail network in the world, will this year become the second largest market for smartphones. Now for the first time, a train station in Mumbai has been fitted out with wi-fi to let passengers get online. The BBC went along to see what they made ... Read More »
The internet – not an equaliser Here’s the story about the global impact of the internet. In the last 20 years, the digital revolution and its leapfrog technologies have allowed developing countries to close the gap with richer nations, and have brought huge advances in health, education and transparent government. Well, not quite, according to the World Bank. Its annual ... Read More »
The Internet Was a Good Idea (In Case You Were Wondering) Much like the humans who invented it, the Internet is both wonderful and terrible. It creates and destroys, empowers and represses, edifies and stultifies — often at the same time. A new report from the World Bank finds a few more things to worry about: The Internet disproportionately benefits ... Read More »
India 2nd largest fruit producer in world he green revolution of the 1960s and 1970s ended chronic food deficits and while cereals still command the attention of policy makers, fruit production has surged impressively, making India the second largest global producer behind China. Annual growth in horticulture has seen fruit production grow faster than vegetables though the latter constitute the ... Read More »
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