The Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) has announced its new executive committee for 2024-26, with Ashley Menezes of ChrysCapital as Chairperson and Srini Sriniwasan of Kotak Alternate as Vice Chairperson. IVCA’s main priorities for the upcoming years include boosting Continue Reading
Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport is set to become the first Indian airport to deploy full-body scanners and computer tomography X-ray (CTX) scanners, potentially installed by May 2024, according to Zulfiqar Hassan, the Director General of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). These scanners, already in use at numerous global airports, aim to Continue Reading
According to a working paper by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKAY), which provides free foodgrains to poor people, played a key role in keeping extreme poverty in India at 0.8% during the pandemic-hit year of 2020. ‘Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India,’ a working paper, presents estimates Continue Reading
The year 2020 brought with it an unprecedented challenge to humanity. As Covid-19 spread like wildfire to become a worldwide pandemic, governments across the world were forced to take harsh measures to deal with the contagion. Businesses and educational institutions had to be shut down for prolonged periods disrupting the livelihoods of millions of people […]Continue Reading