Industry Odisha Bureau, Sep 10: Chief Minister Majhi highlighted Odisha’s fast-growing industrial base. He cited strong infrastructure and abundant natural resources as key strengths. He also pointed to the state’s investor-friendly policies. These reforms aim to ensure greater ease of doing business. Majhi invited UAE sovereign funds to explore Odisha’s opportunities. He named manufacturing, energy petrochemicals, and infrastructure as priority sectors. Hemant Sharma Steers Investment Outreach Additional Chief Secretary Hemant Sharma is coordinating Odisha’s investment strategy. He oversees Home, Industries, and Information & Public Relations departments. His efforts have opened direct channels with top Gulf investors. Sharma is also shaping…
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Family WhatsApp Group Gets Career Update Remember the scene from the very famous movie 3 Idiots? Where Raju’s mother, with the Belan in her hand, earnestly complains that her sister is not getting married, and the ladkewale asks for a Maruti 800 as dowry? In stories, Indian homes looked very similar, from the rising prices of kanda bhaji to the pressure of students getting into a good school, because that is the only way to make money. That house is now a set. The creator economy has moved in! So much so that the “dincharya” of Indian households has changed…
A fallen leaf, a broken payal, a rose left on an obsidian slab, the online world has always romanticised what it is about to lose, not what already exists. A tree in full bloom needs no elegy. An orchard of roses is scrolled past. This lesson is what Pujarini Pradhan learned when her quiet, unhurried videos from a village in East Midnapore stopped being the secret that the internet thought it alone had discovered and became an item on the audit someone somewhere thought they were entitled to make. Pujarini Pradhan, filming from her home in rural West Bengal, wearing…
A Patchwork Before Rupee The monetary system of India before 1947 seems almost unrecognisable. Before the rupee was the single currency as we know it today, people across the country used different currencies. The money varied according to which kingdom it came from. In some parts, the Maratha coins were used, while some princely states like Hyderabad had their own currency. Briefly, India was a mosaic of coins and systems. The nation was also moving toward political integration. There was a currency change. The rupee began to take the place of other monies. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was…
A Season That Should Have Been Careful By all reasonable expectations, this should have been a cautious holiday season. Inflation has been a hot topic. Supply chains were rattled by the West Asia war. But none of it seems to have made a dent on what Indian consumers are actually buying. Executives at consumer companies and retailers, and consultants are describing a season of surprisingly strong demand. This is especially true in aspirational and premium categories – exactly where you would expect a nervous consumer to start pulling back first. “Consumer sentiment has been a bit resilient and seems to…
The Silent Cost Of Corrosion Corrosion doesn’t talk back. It doesn’t make the front pages the way a bridge collapse or a monsoon flood or a factory fire does. But it eats through steel, quietly, year after year. In the end, that slow erosion adds up to a staggering number. Corrosion costs India ₹14 lakh crore annually, or 4.3 per cent of its GDP. Bridges, highways, railroads, ports, power infrastructure, buildings and industrial assets all age prematurely. This is from a Nomura report shared with the Economic Times. Where the damage hurts most The damage is not evenly distributed. The…
Two Opposite Trends, Simultaneously in Conflict Car buyers all over the world are doing two contradictory things at once. Spending rules are getting tighter. At the same time, they’re falling harder than ever for electric cars. A new report from McKinsey captures these two trends colliding in real time. The study is based on a survey of more than 20,000 mobility users in China, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. And that means the automakers caught in the middle don’t get to solve for just one trend. They need to get both. The Nuance of the Affordability…
Industry Odisha Bureau, Jul 26: Forecasters had a straightforward expectation this year: a strong El Niño would thin the clouds, sink dry air over the subcontinent and leave the southwest monsoon short. What arrived instead was cloud cover across nearly 95 per cent of India’s skies and rain across regions the models had largely written off. The gap between prediction and observation raises an uncomfortable question has El Niño weakened, or is something closer to home simply overpowering it? The answer turns on a distinction often lost in ordinary conversation. Climate describes long-run atmospheric patterns, the averages that global phenomena…
Industry Odisha Bureau, Jul 26: In 2019, India had fewer than ten private space companies. By 2023 it had more than 140. Nothing about the country’s engineering talent changed in those four years. What changed was a rule. Until June 2020, ISRO held an effective monopoly over launch activity, and building a private rocket in India was, in practical terms, not permissible. The consequence was visible in the numbers. Between 2010 and 2022, payloads and rocket bodies in low Earth orbit more than doubled, and the global space economy swelled from roughly $270 billion to about $400 billion by 2019…
Industry Odisha Bureau, Jul 26: Every monsoon, India’s hospitals brace for the same surge: overcrowded wards, strained diagnostic labs, and millions of infections that drain public resources and idle workers across the country’s wettest months. India carries roughly one-third of the world’s dengue burden, yet until now its defenses consisted of what doctors have relied on for decades emptying breeding grounds, distributing nets, and urging households to cover water containers and clean out coolers. There has never been a specific treatment for the disease. That calculus is changing. The approval of Qdenga, India’s first dengue vaccine, marks a departure from…