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The EV Era: 25% Indian Vehicles to Turn Electric by 2023
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The EV Era: 25% Indian Vehicles to Turn Electric by 2023

Electric vehicles have been getting a lot of hype in recent times, majorly because of the increasing pollution problems. An electric vehicle also called an EV, first came into existence in the mid-19th century, when electricity was among the preferred methods for motor vehicle propulsion. Later in the 21st century, EVs saw a resurgence due to technological developments, and an increased focus on renewable energy. Government incentives to increase adoptions were introduced, including in the United States and the European Union. Now, in a bid to combat air pollution, the Delhi government has drafted a policy and proposed to make 25 percent of all vehicles to be electric by 2023. The draft named 'Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy 2018' has been released by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delh...
How National Statues Like Statue of Liberty & Others Help Countries Economically
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How National Statues Like Statue of Liberty & Others Help Countries Economically

We always admire the beautiful sculptures and statues that various economies have built across the nations. We always look at them with a sight of beauty or pride but have you ever wondered what economic value do they have in their respective nations? These statues have a significant impact on the economy along with attracting a various number of tourists. The basic reason behind the building of these statues and sculptures is to give tribute to the legends and to remember them forever in the memories. These statues serve as the pride of the nation. However, it is quite possible that the nations also have an economic objective behind it. Apart from emotional and national values, there also persist in economic values. Statue of Liberty, which is one of the most popular statues in the ...
The Impact of Khashoggi Murder on Saudi Investment Summit
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The Impact of Khashoggi Murder on Saudi Investment Summit

The Riyadh key investment summit kicked off in Saudi Arabia overshadowing the murder of the critic Jamal Khashoggi. Despite of some cancellations from policymakers and business titans, the country carried forward with the summit. Last year, Saudi Arabia launched the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference, an event attended by businesses and government leaders across the globe to discuss about the trends in the global economy. It’s also known as “Davos in the desert.” However, since the fallout of Khashoggi, many of the event’s high-profile media sponsors and journalists are backing off in a show of solidarity. The major media sponsors that pulled out were: - Nikkei  - Bloomberg  - CNN  - CNBC  - Financial Times  - New York Times   CNBC will no long...
Digging Into the Twists & Turns of Paytm Extortion Case
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Digging Into the Twists & Turns of Paytm Extortion Case

The case regarding Paytm that got hyped after Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s secretary Sonia Dhawan along with three other Paytm employees blackmailed him for Rs 20 crore against the leak of the confidential information of the company. Sonia Dhawan was the Vice President, Corporations/PR at Paytm and started her career in the company as Vijay Shekhar Sharma's secretary. Being the secretary of the founder, she had access to almost all documents and data of the company. Along with her husband Rupak Jain and Devendra Kumar, who worked as senior manager in the administration department of the company, she planned the extortion and took it forward. These were the allegations because of which they were arrested and taken by the Police, however, the story contains a lot more twist. Let us now know mor...
IL&FS Soon to be Bankrupt, What Went Wrong?
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IL&FS Soon to be Bankrupt, What Went Wrong?

The Indian Government has reportedly taken control of Infrastructure Leasing & Finance (IL&FS) following the approval from the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Court in Mumbai. The country’s leading infrastructure finance company IL&FS has defaulted on payments to lenders triggering panic in the markets.   What is IL&FS? Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) is an Indian infrastructure development and finance company which operates through more than 250 subsidiaries including IL & FS Investment managers, IL & FS financial services and IL&FS Transportation networks India Limited (ITNL). IL&FS is popularly known for building the Chenani-Nashri tunnel -- India’s longest road tunnel at 9 km. The company is a complete end-to-...
Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife Tells You What it Takes to Become a Business Magnate
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Elon Musk’s Ex-Wife Tells You What it Takes to Become a Business Magnate

Everybody is aware of the business tycoon and billionaire Elon Musk who owns the largest EV company Tesla and has co-founded many of the biggest leading companies in America, including Paypal, Space X, among others. What does it take to be a billionaire or a business tycoon like Musk? For any advice on this matter, consider someone who has been married to one. Justine Musk, first wife of billionaire Elon Musk knows exactly about wealth and hard work that takes to reach the level of a billionaire. The lady was married to Musk from 2000 to 2008. Having lived with the business magnate for eight long years, Ms. Musk who is an author, had a ringside view of one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs and businessmen. She poured her views on this matter when someone on her social medi...
iBreastExam – The Best and Cheapest Way To Cure Breast Cancer
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iBreastExam – The Best and Cheapest Way To Cure Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women worldwide. According to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, an estimated 1.7 million new diagnoses are done each year. The causes of breast cancer are not yet fully known, although a number of risk factors have been identified. This problem is much severe and critical in the developing economies, where the majority of cases are identified in advanced stages. Due to this, the women have to go through a lot and often this leads to death in some cases. More than 90 percent of women in the developing countries do not have the medium of early detection of breast cancer. One of the reasons behind this has to be that the mammograms which are the gold-standard screening technique, are rarely used because of their high cost and a lac...
How Avenue Growth is Creating Employment Opportunities in India?
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How Avenue Growth is Creating Employment Opportunities in India?

Whenever any venture takes its course of action, a medium of employment is created. And in a country like India where the population is soaring high, every opportunity is a ladder of success. And to strengthen the roots of sales platform in India, Avenue Growth brings in a concept of overall growth and opportunity to all rotatory platform. Being India’s largest Sales-as-a-Service platform, avenue growth is founded by a pair of marketing professionals with the vision of providing on-ground sales force solution to companies, which enables them to grow and explore new markets with a cost-effective approach. Many of us heard that how people overseas are extracting out their maximum sales by investing in sales outsourcing companies. To bring the same advantage in India, Avenue Growth launche...
On this Rakshabandhan, Meet Brother & Sister in Startup World
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On this Rakshabandhan, Meet Brother & Sister in Startup World

Raksha Bandhan, also known Rakhi, is an annual rite in South Asia, especially in India centered around the tying of a thread on the wrist as a form of ritual protection. On Rakshabandhan, brothers promise their sisters to protect them from every bad thing and make her secure in life. This year, we found out brother-sister duo bond in the startup world. These duos are not just doing great in the respective business but also protecting each other in the company's troubled times. Let's meet and find out how's their journey, Imarticus Learning This Mumbai based startup founded by the brother-sister duo Sonya Hooja and Nikhil Barshikar, is a leading ed-tech company in the realm of financial and analytics-centric professional education. Launched in 2012, it is bridging the much-dreaded s...
The Top 5 Corporate Fights in India
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The Top 5 Corporate Fights in India

Corporate rivalries are a big part of an economy. They are quite prevalent all over the world in every possible sector. However, in India, it is mostly kept restricted to the boardrooms. In most of the developed economies, the rivals fight fiercely in open and create an amusing sight for the public. An example of this rivalry can be seen recently between Tata group vs Cyrus Mistry where both parties alleges each other openly, or Unilever’s Pepsodent claiming to be better than Colgate. These fights play a vital role in building up the excitement of the people. Here, we have some of the biggest and most harsh corporate rivalries in India:   1)MUKESH AMBANI and ANIL AMBANI   The most interesting and the fiercest corporate fight that India has ever witnessed is probably the one...
Who is The Real Owner of NDTV? Pranab Roy or Mukesh Ambani!
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Who is The Real Owner of NDTV? Pranab Roy or Mukesh Ambani!

Disclaimer - The information in the article about the deal of NDTV and Reliance has been derived from various sources and we have tried our best to collect all the facts and come up with a clearer view of the case. The readers can go through the story and analyze the whole deal according to their point of view. For a long time, a question might have been troubling a lot of people in the business space: Who really owns NDTV, Roys or Ambani? NDTV founders Prannoy Roy, his wife Radhika Roy and their private holding company RRPR Holding raised a loan amounting to Rs 350 crore, without any interest, from Vishvapradhan Commercial (VCPL), a subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on 21st July 2009. It is said that in the form of a loan, this was basically an ...
Top 5 Stories Of The Week (2nd July – 7th July)
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Top 5 Stories Of The Week (2nd July – 7th July)

This week was quite eventful in terms of business and startup activities. Many companies came up with a number of business strategies and plans. The most trending topic that buzzed the readers this week was about the Reliance Industries, that became India’s largest tax-paying private company. Apart from this, there were many other news as well that were trending around the social media and news portals. So, here we have the summary of the top 5 stories of the week that were trending and buzzed the readers:         1) Reliance Becomes India’s Largest Tax-Paying Private Company   Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of Reliance Industries said that Reliance has become first Indian private sector company paying 9,844 crore tax and 26,312 crore of cus...