By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE
When India launched the Jan Dhan (people’s wealth) program a year ago, many observers regarded it as an experiment that would fail. But while the program may not have measured up to the claims of its proponents, evidence shows it has had some positive impacts.
Jan Dhan was launched on August 28, 2014. It envisaged making every Indian a holder of a bank account. Similar attempts had been made earlier, but the programs were not attractive enough to yield results. The literacy rate in India is defined as those who can read and write with understanding. Numeracy is defined as the ability to do basic math. Only 30% of Indians qualify as being financially literate based on that yardstick.
By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE
In India, nearly 150 million workers from 10 central trade unions will go on strike on Wenesday, September 2 against the government’s proposed labour reforms with the protest likely to shut down banks, factories as well as auto, taxi and flight services in many parts of the country.
The nationwide one-day strike, according to the trade unions, is supposed to be the biggest strike ever in the country. The protestors are striking against the anti-worker economic policies of the government.
By SWARNAM JOHN | INNLIVE
Mobile phones are a great boon for the modern generation. But an interesting phobia, which is quite new has started making rounds. This phobia is called Nomophobia which is the fear of being without your mobile phone. It can be said as the “paradox of technology”.
I had a friend who always carried her cell phone along with the charger. I used to think it was crazy, but now I know it is a symptom of nomophobia. The topic is becoming really inquisitive is it not?
By LIKHA VEER | INNLIVE
This is a tale of two warring chief ministers. One, K Chandrasekhara Rao, or KCR, was elected for delivering on his huge promise of getting statehood for Telangana. The other, N Chandrababu Naidu, was elected because people felt he had a vision for the truncated state of Andhra Pradesh, from which Telangana had been carved out, and could work with the Centre to get things done, including building a new capital. But the two men do not get along and are projecting their personal rivalry into a competition between their states.
By SHEENA SHAFIA | INNLIVE
India was among the wealthiest nations in the ancient times, aptly nicknamed the golden bird. Throughout history, India has been subject to multiple invasions, the most damaging one being the two-century long British colonial rule that shattered India’s social and economic fabric.
When India finally achieved a hard-won independence in 1947, it was a divided nation with a destitute economy, poor infrastructure, over dependence on imports and a legacy of poverty and illiteracy.
By NEWSCOP | INNLIVE
Back in 2001, former Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym BRIC to highlight the immense economic potential of the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China in the decades to come.
They would be the economic engines of tomorrow, he wrote.
The BRIC nations, which cover a quarter of the world’s landmass and contain 40% of its population, had a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of $20 trillion back in 2001.
By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE
A three-year-old girl named Nitya has declared her love for Bollywood superstar Salman Khan in the sweetest way possible. In a video, the toddler can be seen expressing her feelings for the actor, who replied to the post saying, "So Sweet", and then shared it on Twitter and Facebook .
In the video, which is in Hindi, the three-year-old says, "I want to marry you, Salman Khan." Nitya's mother recorded her wish and sent the video to the "love of her life".
By M H AHSSAN | INNLIVE
This story was born when i am travelling in the nilgiris to discover the lifestyle of the 'Irula's tribe and their livelihood on 'bee-honey' trade. The most inspiring incidents make me to write and typo-graph the story with the pictures, incidents. Read on to make your interest.
I was crouching at the entrance of a bear’s cave at the foot of Kakulai Parai (cliff) in the Nilgiris, watching as one man swung precariously on a rope ladder, while another sang to the cliff he was descending. I had been working on a book of stories about love, ambiguity and consequence, and its underpinning motifs of sweetness, wildness, and greed had led me to only one logical conclusion: honey. For months, not knowing what the story I would eventually write would be, I had been conducting research into traditional honey gathering, learning along the way about modern beekeeping, the differences between bee species around the world and how bees keep ecosystems alive.
