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A tiny Arctic village in Alaska is trying to revive its polar bear tourism industryKaktovik, Alaska, a village near the Arctic Circle, is planning to restart polar bear tourism. The village, which hosted thousands of touri...
Need to adopt advanced tech to optimise agri operations: PK MishraPK Mishra, principal secretary to the Prime Minister, emphasized the need for sustainable agricultural practices and advanced technologies ...
Pandemic hits India's prospects to become $5 trillion economy by FY25: Top US economistAccording to him, even if everything goes according to current growth projections by the RBI and IMF, Indian economy will be smaller for a ...
View: Inject some blood into India's anaemic small businesses?MSME units in India, on the other hand, have existed practically at subsistence level for decades. To move out of this morass would require...
Prolonged lockdown may push millions into margins of subsistence: Former RBI Governor SubbaraoSubbarao asserted that India's economic recovery would be far better than most of the other countries.
Fairer treatment of informal workers key to equality: Martha Chen, lecturer, Harvard Kennedy SchoolChen spoke to ET on issues such as gender pay gap and role of women in the informal sector.
New Mizoram govt policy 'The Way Forward': Ruling MPCCThe ruling Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) today said that the state government has formulated a new economic development program...
WTO: India pushes for permanent solution on public stockholdingIndia pitched for "concerted efforts" for a permanent solution to the issue of public stockholding of grains for food security programmes.
ILO adopts international labour standardILO as adopted a landmark international labour standard to help millions of workers and economic units across the world make successful tra...
Poverty estimates in different states of IndiaThe poverty line is defined as the minimum money required for maintaining a per capita caloric intake of in an urban and rural area.
World Economic Forum: India to support member from developing nation for WTO's top postIndia today said it will support a candidate from a developing country for the top post of WTO that is to be decided by the end of May.
- What is 'Lewis turning point' and its importance for China
A spate of worker unrest and rising wages in China suggest that the country is very close to what economists call the ‘Lewis turning point’.
- Will ecotechnic societies come into their own?
So far, humanity has used around half the world’s stock of petroleum, and a little less than half its stock of coal and natural gas.
- Orissa economy undergoing structural changes: Economic Survey
Orissa’s subsistence economy is finally getting a facelift if the Economic Survey, 2009-10 brought out by the state government is to be bel...
- Budget lacks flamboyance but not substance
On the whole, the Budget marks continuity of slow reform in the right direction, even if it fails to release adrenaline in our market bulls...
- ADB lends $420 million for India road project
Philippines-based Asian Development Bank will give a loan of $420 million to upgrade and expand Bihar's highway network.
- Developed nations should reciprocate offers from emerging economies
India today flayed many developed countries for strengthening forces of protectionism and asked them to reciprocate offers from emerging ec...
- Nath blames rich nations for trade mess
Commerce & industry minister Kamal Nath on Thursday lashed out at the developed countries for trying to perpetuate distortions in world tra...
- Tata concerned over poverty despite transformation of economy
Industry doyen Ratan Tata today warned that "absence of strong unified ideological construct in Parliament" would hinder the impressive gro...
- ‘Development crucial to mini meet success’
India has emphasised that the development dimension of the on-going Doha round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has to be addressed if...