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EIAST signs MoU with Dubai Municipality to facilitate knowledge sharing & manpower investment

Mutual cooperation covers areas of remote sensing applications, space communications, and global navigation systems using satellites   ]UAE, May 26, 2014[ – In line with the common aspirations to position Dubai as a premier Smart City, the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Dubai Municipality …

eBay India reveals the findings of COMMERCE 3.0 report

~ India has the potential to increase its economic welfare by 67% ~   Mumbai, March 26, 2014: eBay India ( www.ebay.in ), India’s leading eCommerce marketplace, released the COMMERCE 3.0 report in Delhi today to showcase the impact of internet-enabled trade in the country. The report provides insights on how Indian merchants trade nationally and internationally …

IFPRI’s 2013 Global Food Policy Report: Ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025 must be a top priority in the post-2015 development agenda

Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) March 12, 2014 IFPRI’s2013 Global Food Policy Report reviews major food policy developments and trends from the past year, documents emerging issues, examines key challenges and opportunities, describes the rising political commitment to food and nutrition security, and sets an agenda for action for 2014 …

IICF, 2014 unfolds many opportunities in coffee

Bangalore – 26/1/2014: ” Life is a beautiful and endless journey in search of a perfect cup of coffee…” Organized by Coffee Board, India Coffee Trust, and IICF Secretariat, India International Coffee Festival, IICF 2014 held at Bangalore in The Hotel Lalit Ashok drew about 5000 coffee enthusiasts with 2000 business visitors and about 1000 …

EU Steel Market: Gearing up for Recovery

EUROFER’s Q1-2014 Economic & Steel Market Outlook foresees that momentum in the EU steel market will strengthen in 2014 and 2015.   In the second half of 2013 the EU remained on track for continued but rather fragile economic growth. Meanwhile, forward looking indicators strengthened further to post-2011 peaks, sugges­ting that a slightly more pronoun­ced …

India@75 launches first National Volunteering Week

India’s first National Volunteering Week starts January 12th, 2014   The movement of the people, for the people and by the people – India@75 announces for the first time in India the National Volunteering Week starting 12th January to 18th January 2014. The pan-India initiative callson every Indian tocontribute in terms of their time and …

ISS celebrates successful cruise season and Dubai Tourism Award

ISS celebrates successful cruise season and Dubai Tourism Award Inchcape Shipping Services, the world’s leading maritime services provider, is celebrating another successful cruise season in Dubai and winning a Tourism Award for its Cruise Agency in the UAE. With the 2012-13 cruise season in Dubai busier than ever, the capital has become an international hub …

INSDAG in 2012-13 – Sushim Banerjee, Director General, INSDAG

The year 2012-13 was an extremely challenging year for the global steel industry. With the falling trend in demand from the major consuming sectors like infrastructure, machine building, automobile, household appliances and other processing industries, the steel industry also passed through upward prices in iron ore, coking coal and scrap, resulting thereby a declining trend …