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Kailash Satyarthi: The Man with a Noble mission

I see the world where every child is free, safe and educated: Satyarthi It is with this belief and vision that Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Laureate (2014) and a human rights activist from India, has been at the forefront of the global movement to end child slavery and exploitative child labour for over 35 years …

Rush of adrenaline not a preserve of males- Niharika Nigam

Rush of adrenaline not a preserve of males. Adventure sports fast gaining popularity among females in the country written by Niharika Nigam is the Director – Business Development at Jumpin Heights, India’s first Extreme Adventure zone The perception of femininity has changed for a progressive turn- with power and equality being the new mantras of the …

It’s an Ad, Mad World! – Anup Kumar Agarwalla

I routinely meet people who try to convince me that what I do for a living – help create dreams that my clients match their goods and services with – is really of no real consequence. That advertising, seldom if ever, create tomes that outlive even their purpose, forget about testing eternity. I will not …

Edgar Kiwiet, CEO of Inshoring Pros and Asoke Laha, CEO of Interra Information Technologies Inc in an exclusive tete-a-tete

In a special event held at the InterraIT Noida premises, Edgar Kiwiet, CEO of Inshoring Pros and Asoke Laha, CEO of Interra Information Technologies Inc. met to discuss the changing IT industry landscape, emerging opportunities and the growth projections. Both the IT visionaries emphasised on fostering innovation, meaningful collaboration and exceeding customer expectations through advanced technology …

VERBIND Collaborates with Instaoffice for Developing Co-working Spaces, Business Centres

  28th August 2017, VERBIND, India’s leading integrated trade facilitation company has joined hands with Instaoffice, a co-working and business center provider. Under the agreement, members of 13 World Trade Center (WTC) which is managed by Verbind will get access to Instaoffice business centers at discounted rates; the agreement also gives access to Instaoffice to …

GM Mustard: A Baby Step Towards Food Security? Ankur Aggarwal, Managing Director, Crystal Crop Protection

On 11 May 2017, India’s regulator for transgenic products, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) under the Environment Ministry, recommended approval for commercial production of GM mustard. If the Ministry grants permission, it will be a first for a GM food crop in India. GM crops have been a contentious issue in India for over …

Stefano Benazzo: Wrecks

Stefano Benazzo, photographer; Jean Blanchaert, editor A photographic testimony to maritime history and the inevitability of decline Replete with more than 100 gorgeously shot photographs and introduced by texts from Jean Blanchaert, Roberto Mutti and the photographer himself, Stefano Benazzo: Wrecks documents and preserves shipwrecks from around the world, bound to inevitable decline in the …

Critical Debt Levels of Chinese Property Developers Threaten DomesticFinancial Stability and Global Growth

SINGAPORE, Aug. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — A report on China’s residential real estate market released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) indicates that debt levels among mainland Chinese residential property developers have accumulated to new historic levels since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis. China’s unprecedented expansion in debt, in terms of …