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The need for a new equation for inclusive growth

Covid-19 took the lives of nearly 1.9 million people in 2020, with the biggest toll reported by the US and Brazil. The year saw over 84 million people infected, while the exact number recorded in China, the epicenter was not known to the world. India stood third place n terms of infection and mortality while having only half the number recorded by the US India's mortality rate was also the lowest, which astonished the world. The year 2021 began with not so good news for California and London as the death toll and fear of infection in these places terrified the world. But for the rest of the world, the year 2021 began with a hope of ebbing the pandemic load and bracing a hope of vaccine supplies. Most people in India considered Covid-19 only as flu. Doctors called it the dirty flu wi...

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NBCFDC: Inoculation training

The government carried out nine-day upskilling training in the blended learning model of e-leaming and physical workshops for inoculation of vaccines. National Backward Classes Finance and Development Corporation (NBCFDC) under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and Apollo Medskills has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) for delivery of vaccine administration training to nurses and pharmacists belonging to the other backward classes communities (OBCs) and economically backward classes (EBCs) persons using the co-funding of NBCFDC. The nine-day upskilling training is to be carried out in the blended learning model Of e-learning and physical workshops as per the curriculum drawn from operating guidelines issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Over the next ...

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GenNext BUSINESS Bet

The thriving inorganic business has the potential to conquer the world for the misery of the next generation of animal lovers and meat lovers fail to mind the non-science of the ultra-science. The cloning business is attracting huge capital to tap the huge market of meats and pets. The dangerous next-generation business is set to thrive on the next generation's craze Of making everything by infringing nature. None cared when cloned cats and dogs had hit headlines of the science press. When people want to eat the meat of cloned livestock, that's crazy. Livestock cloning is not a headline but a beautiful advertisement. A science magazine recently reported. In China, where demand for prime-quality beef is rocketing, another cloning company thinks its customer's wilt. Boyalife Genomi...

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A gulf-based Indian businessman has done great work for his fellow citizens

Dhananjay Datar Chairman and MD, A1 Adil Trading LLC, IJAE Dr Dhananjay Datar, Gulf-based Indian businessman has done great work for his fellow citizens. His business group has rescued over 5000 Indians stranded at various troubled- zones, including Yemen. Shipping crews including 14 Indians, five Bangladeshis, and one Egyptian were confined in Yemen for 10 months. Early December. they were released, thanks to the intervention Of Dr. Dhananjay Datar, Chairman and Managing Director of Al Adil Trading LLC, UAE. Datar is popularly known as Masala King. He took painstaking efforts to make this rescue possible by keeping a follow-up and continuous communication with the Indian Embassy in Djibouti. close to Yemen. Dr. Datar also donated t20,000 each as emergency help to t...

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TEXPROCIL 66th Annual General Meeting

Manoj K. Patodia Chairman, TEXPROCIL Patodia is a well-known entrepreneur active in various associations. His appointment will help its members in many ways, thanks to his sound knowledge of the industry and MSMEs. Manoj Kumar Patodia is elected Chairman of TEXPROCIL in its 66th Annual General Meeting. Patodia has the export of yarns and fabrics across the world and in real estate development in the southern part of India. He has vast experience in corporate management. spanning over three decades, besides exports. He has played a key role in the establishment of Indian textile products worldwide. He is also a member of the Western region committee of FICCI. Managing Committee Member at Chamber of Commerce Industry (IMC). Prior to this, he was heading the MSME committee and carried...

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Hospitality set to lose Rs 90k crore: Over-capacity to put pressure on price realisation

The prospects of the industry depend on vaccine supply, which is expected to cover the entire population by the end of 2021 or 2022 The Indian hospitality sector fears a revenue loss of nearly Rs 90,000 crore in 2020 Hotel occupancy improved from 10% in April to almost 26% in September. Pre-COVID-19, over 11,500 rooms were to be added in 2020 and 202. At present, only 15-20% of the anticipated 2020 supply is expected The hotel industry currently survives on domestic leisure travel and outbound luxury travel. COVID-19 has left an unprecedented impact on the hotel sector in India. HVS ANAROCK anticipates the overall Indian hospitality sector, including organized, unorganized and semi-organized operators, to incur an estimated revenue loss of nearly Rs 90,000 crore in 2020. Occ

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Book Review

Preview Nature creates nothing that is of no use, be it a material, cyclical change of climate, or thinking power of human beings. All human affairs are connected with nature in one or the other ways. Human beings produced nothing on the earth that is not an extraction from nature. The brainiest animals on the planet misconstrued nature either as a swathe of green bed or a rich orchard that fascinated their eyes. They forgot nature as an eternal source for everything for a sustainable life of every animal, plants, flora and fauna. As the so-called social animal learned crosscuts the law of nature was infringed and harnessed for undue benefit. The self-curtailment thinking power ultimately made each human being imperfect, which we finally call as the law of nature. Nature is an inexhaustib

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Kerala`s socio-political crisis

Save God’s Own Country Udaykumar K.V. Too many concerns about the future and the natives’ disappointment over every news that the media reports everyday cast a shadow over the “God's own Country”. Gold smuggling, political killing, rising crime rates, presence of terrorists as intelligence’ warning indicated, etc. may stain the image of the tiny, but naturally beautiful State.The geographic size of Kerala State is just one-tenth of India's largest State. The State, with hills covered by dense plantations and backwaters to storm the minds of tourists, is one of the most densely populated regions in the country. Bushy green villages have enviable cottages with a four-wheeler parked at the porch of each one. Backwaters, silent high-range plains, lon

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The independent India

The independent India is now 72 years. More than a decade ago, a generation born after the independence has gone home to rest from their life of public service, other than politicians. Many of them had precious talents though strived under many difficulties in inhospitable times. Famine, death by tuberculosis, typhoid, malaria and many other maladies killed people with numbers couldn’t be counted. The generation, who dreamed new India after 1947, passed away food-less, cloth-less and homeless. Clean drinking water, primary health care system and roads were only dreams. Business opportunities were kept locked under strict license regime. In a country of half a billion people, business opportunities we re-undiscovered or kept aside as prejudiced against the interest of the masses,while...

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Are we going wrong?

Two Central level Administrative Reforms Commission (ARCs) over four decades and our own rule for more than seven decades couldn’t change our administrative culture. This is the system that defeats all the so called reforms. This is what is unconvincing the public about the changes on the ground. Surely YES. In terms of technology sophistication we have been steadily going up. We can boast ourselves of being the champion of information technology that is changing the world into the ideal 21st century character. The technology is boosting efficiency, transparency and public comfort. Yet, the public at large is a lot dissatisfied in dealing with what is to rightfully come to them. One may not miss the ghost of the British legacy if he or she visits a Central or State government department. A

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