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NABARD incentivises banks to boost investment in warehousing
New Delhi: National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has introduced a new refinance product for warehousing. The refinance scheme incentivises banks to accelerate the pace of creation of quality warehousing facilities for agricultural commodities. The scheme will help in creation of around 9 million tonne (MT) of additional storage capacity in the country.
Categories: US India Industry Associations
Bertelsmann sets up India Corporate Centre
New Delhi: The US$ 16 billion media giant Bertelsmann has opened its India Corporate Centre in Delhi. Through this, it will identify investment opportunities and build new businesses here. Education and digital media are two key areas the company has identified in India.
Categories: US India Industry Associations
Jonty Rhodes to promote South African tourism in India as brand ambassador
Chennai: Former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes, has volunteered to promote South African tourism in India as a brand ambassador. India is one of the most 'vibrant' markets to attract tourists to the Rainbow Nation, according to Hanneli Slabber, Country Head, South African Tourism.
Categories: US India Industry Associations
Amazon flows into India via Junglee route
Mumbai: Amazon.com on February 2, 2012, flowed into India by launching a website called Junglee.com. It is being positioned as an online shopping service that will help customers discover products from other websites (including Amazon.com). When users select or choose to buy a product from Junglee.com, they would be redirected to the seller's website.
Categories: US India Industry Associations
RIL signs $400m loan deal with SACE
Mumbai: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has approached the international markets, to raise funds for its ambitious US$ 11 billion mega petrochemicals project (J-3) in Jamnagar. RIL officials were in Rome to sign an agreement for US$ 400 million loan facility from Italian insurer and finance group SACE Spa.
Categories: US India Industry Associations
The democratisation of media
Can technology restore the balance between people in their conversations about public issues? And can this help foster a better and
more inclusive democracy, asks Shubhranshu Choudhary.
Categories: Government of India
The key to the handloom crisis
The principal contribution of the Malkha initiative is in its idea of rooting cotton handloom production in the rural economy, much
against the trend in urban discourses. Neeta Deshpande reports.
Categories: Government of India
Tips for change
Can we tap into the power of crowds and popular fashion to address persistent poverty? And what would such an effort look like, wonders
Gijs Spoor.
Categories: Government of India
Green tribunal: First months
The first set of hearings winds its way through the newly established environment tribunal, against the backdrop of a government push
to speed up industrialisation in forest areas. Kanchi Kohli reports.
Categories: Government of India
Amartya Sen: A life re-examined
Suman Ghosh's documentary about the Nobel Laureate has not found its way to many screens yet. Nonetheless, it is a noteworthy effort to
bring the economist a little closer to the people. Shoma Chatterji reviews the film.
Categories: Government of India
The Age of misjudgment
The case of the Army Chief's true age is only seemingly one of an individual's besmirched honour. It is instead one in civil-military
relations, writes Firdaus Ahmed.
Categories: Government of India
Who profits? Who pays?
While government and other sector actors are on the alert to address the power crisis, some find a business opportunity in it.
Meanwhile, attention to rural supply continues to be low, write Sreekumar N and Shantanu Dixit.
Categories: Government of India
A Prime Minister in peril
Why has this honest, intelligent, experienced man, whose appointment as prime minister in 2004 was so widely welcomed, been such a
disappointment in office, asks Ramachandra Guha
Categories: Government of India
Lokpal amendments in the LS
There are wide differences between the various parties on various provisions of the Lokpal Bill. And India Against Corruption wants its
own amendments too.
Categories: Government of India
Building the Transit Metropolis
As the most significant region yet to be urbanised, India presents a unique opportunity for capturing impacts of urbanisation on the
spatial dimension, writes Madhav Pai.
Categories: Government of India
Welcome, foreign investors
In search of new funds to keep the growth story alive, the Centre opens the doors to foreign investment a little further.
Categories: Government of India
Adding millets to the basket
To improve food security and to bring extensive lands now left fallow into cultivation again, the government must support millets just
as it supports rice and wheat. Karuna M reports.
Categories: Government of India
Back to the family
Grounded in its feminist views, Praajak works with runaway boys and young men, to give them livelihood options and help them reunite
with their families. Shoma Chatterji reports.
Categories: Government of India
Should defence bureaucracy specialise?
Should bureaucrats working in the national security bureaucracy have a working knowledge of the defence sector, or would that just
foster group-think? Firdaus Ahmed explores the question.
Categories: Government of India
Growing business at the bottom of the pyramid
It is tempting to take a rosy-eyed view of the future of successful entrepreneurship at the bottom of the pyramid.
But what is the picture really?
Categories: Government of India
