Green Transport is a holistic approach to transportation focused on achieving a clean low-carbon and low-pollution future. Rapidly developing countries, with their exploding car ownerships and travel rates, must focus on making transport more ecologically friendly. India in particular has great potential to reap the benefits of green transport initiatives due to its huge population…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of acche din is premised on moving away from the erstwhile dole and entitlement model, to one that empowers youth by generating large scale employment. In that context, officially released figures from the Labour Bureau are alarming. Employment generation in eight labour intensive sectors (textiles, garments, leather, jewellery, BPOs, handlooms,…
Urbanization has been one of the prevailing contemporary progressions as a growing share of the global population lives in cities. Transportation in urban areas is profoundly intricate because of multitude of the modes involved, of starting points and destinations, and the variety in traffic. Traditionally, the focus of urban transportation has been on passengers as…
In 2014, the newly elected Government, realising the potential of domestic stock of gold, decided to introduce gold related schemes that would unlock the idle yellow metal lying in private lockers. With the objective to mobilise gold held by retail and institutional investors in the country, the Hon’ble Finance Minister of India in his budget…
In 2014, the newly elected Government, realising the potential of domestic stock of gold, decided to introduce gold related schemes that would unlock the idle yellow metal lying in private lockers.With the objective to mobilise gold held by retail and institutional investors in the country, the Hon’ble Finance Minister of India in his budget speech…
The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), seems to have finally come out of its Odin nap (not sleep) with its first investment. NIIF has been structured as a fund of funds and set up as Category II Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Regulations. Its proposed corpus…
One often wonders if the Union Budget is as big a deal amongst all sections of the population as it is in India. Usually, the budget is a somber boring exercise of number allocations and expense statements. In India however, it has become somewhat synonymous to big bang policy announcements and that time of the…
In a series of publications, Centennial Group (http://www.centennial-group.com) has described alternate scenarios of where the world economy could be by 2050. While there are other more aspirational scenarios, even under the central scenario the world will be very different than what it is today: it will be much more prosperous, with total global GDP three…
India stands fourth globally, in terms of carbon emissions (2 Giga tons). This calls for a huge reduction in emissions and therefore, an increased footprint in terms of renewable energy generation is needed. India is emerging as the leader in promoting clean energy, which is quite evident from the initiatives taken by the Prime Minister.…
India has been an important tourism destination for the variety it offers. With multicultural diversity, beautifully built and natural attractions, India has opened up as a ‘spiritual’ destination as well as a destination for ‘pleasure and relaxation’ and ‘business’. In recent times, medical tourism is on the rise in India because of the availability of…
Here is the list of top 20 companies having the largest market capitalization: Company Market Cap ($ in billions) 1 Apple Inc 672.46 2 Exxon Mobil Corp. 404.86 3 Microsoft Corporation 397.47 4 Alphabet Inc 371.2 5 Alphabet Inc 364.3 6 Berkshire Hathway Inc 349.7 7 Johnson & Johnson 304.43 8 Wells Fargo &…
A number of newspapers have covered on improved rankings of India on Ease of Doing Business from 134 in 2015 to 130 in 2016 rankings released by World Bank every year. The impetus to this improved ranking could be attributed to Modi’s dream of India being in top 30 countries in ease of doing business…