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My dog, thankfully, never travels business class

Melvin Durai Around Christmas, last year, my wife and I adopted a dog named Lulu from a pet shelter. She had been found on the street, but her condition indicated that she had a previous owner. She was extremely skittish—any loud sound made her jump—and...

India Post to be turned into large logistic body with 1.5 lakh rural post offices: FM

India Post’s role in financial inclusion

Bruhaspati Samal Having a vast network of 1,56,721 post offices, India Post, the largest postal network in the world, completed its glorious journey of 167 years October 1, 2021. Due to its widespread presence in rural and poor areas, it has not only protected national...

PERILS OF LEMON SOCIALISM

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra Apart from the ideological assault on the ethos of the public sector, the very purpose of divesting or privatising the public sector and various public services or leasing out national assets is mainly to generate resources to bridge the fiscal deficit and...

Four-day workweek could benefit employees

Melvin Durai Bolt, a San Francisco-based financial technology company, announced recently that it would be switching to a four-day workweek. “It’s all about keeping standards of execution high, while still putting the team’s health and well-being first,” Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow told FastCompany.com. Meanwhile, TAC...

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Slow, off-beat, nature travel in demand

Narvijay Yadav In the post-pandemic era, domestic tourism is likely to grow, as people are fed-up with monotonous lifestyle, following the work from home culture. However, safety and hygiene are considered to be the new luxury. With the possible opening of foreign tourists’ entry into...

Decline in car sales sends Ford packing

Melvin Durai Ford Motor Company recently announced that it is leaving India, saying goodbye to all the drivers it had hoped to lure with cars such as the Aspire, Endeavour and Freestyle. No more aspiring and endeavoring in the competitive waters of India—Ford is freestyling...

What ails our police

Pinak Mishra, IPS Recently, while interacting with IPS probationers at the Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lamented over the negative image of the police and exhorted the young officers about to enter the force to work assiduously on changing...

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Cybersecurity and banking

Bighneswar Swain Cybersecurity is the blend of people, policies, processes and technologies employed by an enterprise to protect its cyber assets. Cybersecurity is augmented to levels that business leaders define as balancing the resources required with usability/manageability and the amount of risk counterbalance. On secure...

STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IN WATER

Dr Padmalochan Dash To realise the Water Mission envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi it is important to give official sanction to an autonomous “Institute of Indo-Israel Strategic Partnership in Water”. It is believed that the proposed institute can be a catalyst in achieving India’s...

Benefits of WFH are too enticing

Melvin Durai Millions of people around the world were forced to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of them normally work in an office, but took advantage of Zoom, Skype and other online platforms to work remotely. Some have already returned to work,...

 

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