The Indian trucking industry is the core of logistics movement and country’s growth. According to vice-president of the All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), more than 12 crore people in the country are directly and indirectly dependent on the freight transport industry for their living. However, this segment is highly …
The emerging Indian economy is characterised by un-paralleled dynamism owing to a new wave of technology and market transitions, as well as structural changes in the macro-economic environment. The ‘Entrepreneurship for Empowerment’ programme is conceptualised as a response to this dynamism — to enable vulnerable communities to adapt to these …
Over the past three hundred years, technology has unquestionably enhanced the life and well-being of a greater portion of humanity than in all of the human history that went before. Ordinary people can now live longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives than even the mightiest potentates of earlier times. Yet, …
It is well known that India is a country of opposites. But not so visible is the paradox of entrepreneurship that runs through our economy. Our people are inherently entrepreneurial, yet they find it very difficult to set up and run businesses with ease. Constraints like access to technical knowledge, …
A less well known event in the history of the earth systems research is not-so-successful attempt of creating Biosphere 2 in Arizona desert in USA. The mission of Biosphere 2 was to assess whether humans were capable of building and living in self-sustaining colonies in outer space[i]. The research ended …