How Natural Disasters Can Change the World Economy
Naturaldisasters arein fact nature’s way of revolting against all the abuse it has been subjectedto. It is dangerous, fatal and cannot be contained in any way. What is more, natural disasters cannot be predicted either. Only a warning can be estimated without leaving substantial time for proper evacuation. These calamities have an impact spanning More...
Snap lays off 100 employees in latest round of downsizing
Snap Inc. is cutting another set of employees, focusing this time on the advertising side of the business after earlier trimming staff in engineering and content. The cuts total around 100 workers, according to More...
Govt notifies new accounting standard that comes into effect on April 1
Companies will have to adopt more detailed revenue recognition ways from April 1 as the government has notified a new accounting standard. The corporate affairs ministry has notified Indian Accounting Standard More...
Dark net, bitcoin being used to smuggle drugs: Report
The “increasing” trend of using the ‘dark net’ and bitcoins to smuggle pharma medicines and illicit drugs to untouched segments of the population and youngsters in the country is becoming a new challenge More...
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Niranjan Hiranandani’s family is investing around Rs3,500 crore to build liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals in Maharashtra and West Bengal, in a diversification for the Mumbai-based developer who built the More...
Economic growth needs to reflect on HDI: Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant
The Indian economy is growing at 7 -8% which needs to be reflected on the human development index (HDI) wherein the country stands at 131st position out of 188 nations, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Monday said. Kant More...
NTPC ties up with IIM-A to set up full-fledged B-school
IIM-A will help in designing the course, teaching, helping in faculty recruitment and working on joint projects. Photo: HT New Delhi: India’s largest power utility NTPC Ltd on Tuesday joined hands with Indian More...
Hammond, the economy and why chewing gum matters
It was Lyndon Baines Johnson who famously said that Gerald Ford could not walk and chew gum at the same time. (He actually said fart and chew gum, but his words were sanitised by a US media that didn’t much More...
America’s immigrants could be a source of strength for the economy
A major argument used by proponents of last year’s tax-cut legislation was that it would boost the economy. Regardless of how that turns out, partisans on both sides generally agreed that growing the economy More...
Why is Trump still standing? The answer is the economy
How much will the American public let Trump get away with? US media organizations have been hounding Trump since he became president until they now collectively sound like the boys and girls who cried wolf. (Quite More...