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Electric Vehicles and its Impacts on Future

“We will not stop until every car on the road is electric”- Elon Musk The above line by founder of Tesla (world’s first electric automobile company) is somewhat going to be true in upcoming decades. Electric vehicles are taking over the traditional diesel and petrol engines, due to the growing concerns on fossil fuel consumption […]

Indian Sensex Crashes Over 300 pts on Capital Gains Tax Proposal

Benchmark Sensex crashed over 300 points in afternoon trade today after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced 10 per cent tax on some long term capital gains in his Budget speech. The NSE Nifty also sank below the 11,000-mark during the Budget presentation. Sentiment also took a hit after the fiscal deficit target for 2017-18 was […]

Everything You Need To Know About ASEAN Members and India

What is ASEAN? ASEAN– The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a regional intergovernmental organization, founded in 8 August 1967 that comprises of ten Southeast Asian countries which promotes unity of Asian peoples and resist the Western imperialism and colonialism and promote Asian values over European values. The association of ten nations includes these 10 […]

World Economic Forum 2018: Key Highlights After First Day of the Conference

The year is 2018 and World Economic Forum is bigger than ever, the reason is obvious- ‘India’. There are several highlights that we’ll be talking about later, but the World Economic Forum is perhaps one of the biggest platforms in the world on which Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s hosted an opening session, sharing his […]

India Can Grow At 8 Percent For Next 20 Years: UN Expert

India can achieve an 8 per cent growth rate for the next two decades if it unleashes the next set of reforms that could help it in realising its full potential, according to a senior UN official. The UN, in its latest report, projected Indias growth rate to be 7.2 per cent in 2018 and […]

Economic Growth Likely To Pick Up In Q2, Say Experts

Indias economic growth is likely to show a significant improvement for the September quarter of the current fiscal over the previous three months, when the GDP slipped to a 3-year low of 5.7 per cent, say experts. The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is scheduled to come out on Thursday with the estimates of the second […]

Know Why This NRI Chose Lucknow Over London For His Startup

After Bangalore, New Delhi, Mumbai and other tier I cities, another city that is becoming a startup cluster is Lucknow! Lately, it has been much observed that the andaaz of Lucknow is treating startups well, with more companies trying to increase their penetration in the city of Nawabs. The startup ecosystem in Lucknow is now getting a […]

Economic Reforms To Help Support Long-Term Growth: BMI Research

India is expected to remain one of the fastest growing emerging markets with real GDP growth averaging 6.5 per cent over the next five fiscals, though bureaucratic inefficiencies will continue to cap the countrys growth potential, says a report. According to a report by BMI Research, a Fitch Group company, while India’s ease of doing […]

Top 10 Richest Person Of 2017 In India

International Agency Hurun recently released the names of top 10 richest person in India. The list was topped by none other than Mukesh Ambani with over 58% jump in his net worth. Storming into Top 10 for the first time, 44-year-old Patanjali’s CEO Acharya Balkrishna has become the 8th richest person in the country after 173 […]

New Device Can Turn Heat Energy To Fuel

Scientists have developed a device that could turn the heat generated by electronics into a usable fuel source, an advance that may help save energy. The device is a multi component, multi layered composite material called a van der Waals Schottky diode, said researchers at Washington State University (WSU) in the US. It converts heat […]

Aahaa Stores Bags $1Mn In Second Round Of Funding From YourNest Angel Fund

Online office supplies platform Aahaa Stores on Friday announced that it has raised $1 million in the second round of pre-series ‘A’ funding from investor group led by YourNest Angel Fund. Two of the existing investors including YourNest have participated in this round as well at a substantially higher valuation as compared to their earlier […]