Category: Business & Economy

** And now, a GI tag adds more vibrancy to Rajasthan’s Sojat Mehndi

Known for its entrancing, deep burnt-red stain, the world famous Sojat Mehndi of Rajasthan got its due on September 14. We explore its harvesting, manufacturing and various art and medicinal forms — as well as the issue of adulteration

“Our women apply it on their hands and even our men put it on their fingertips,” says Mukesh Heerani, whose family has been in the mehndi business since it began in 1969. “Mehndi has been our lifeline for generations and the new GI (Geographical Indication) status for Sojat Mehndi will only increase its brand value and the customer’s faith in us.”

** CFTRI Scientist Develops New Beverage From Coffee Leaves

However, some producers have decided to diversify the crops that they grow and sell. As coffee leaves are constantly being produced, growers can harvest them in the off-season if there is demand, according to Pushpa S. Murthy, Principal Scientist (Spice and Flavour Science Department) of CFTRI.

** Falguni Nayar: The Nykaa among Nayaks

With a worth of Rs 58,635 cr following her beauty business’s market debut, Falguni Nayar has joined India’s billionaire club.

No one who knows the middle-class Gujarati girl who aced IIM, had a long successful banking career, and then took a giant leap into a new, unknown field at 50 is surprised.

** Rajnath Singh inaugurates U.P.’s first private sector defence manufacturing facility

The facility is run by Aerolloy Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of PTC industries

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday inaugurated the first operationalised private sector defence manufacturing facility in the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC) in Lucknow.

A Defence Ministry statement said: “The facility, run by Aerolloy Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of PTC industries, will manufacture parts for aircraft engines, helicopter engines, structural parts for aircrafts, drones and UAV, submarines, Ultra-Light Artillery guns, space launch vehicles and strategy systems.”

** Engineer’s experiment with Boer goat

T.S. Umesh crosses the Boer with the native Talcher breed and they fetch a good price

T.S. Umesh, 47-year-old from Tarabenahalli of Tumakuru district, chose agriculture instead of office soon after completing his engineering degree in 1990.

Karnataka

** Watch | Sela Tunnel, world’s longest bi-lane road tunnel

A video on Sela tunnel, the world’s longest bi-lane road tunnel situated near the Indo-China border in Arunachal Pradesh

This is the Sela Tunnel, the longest bi-lane road tunnel in the world. The Sela tunnel is being constructed by the Border Roads Organisation at an altitude of 13,800ft near the Indo-China border.

It is being built on the 317km long Balipara-Charduar-Tawang (BCT) road which connects West Kameng, East Kameng and Tawang districts of Arunachal Pradesh to the rest of the country.

The Sela tunnel will provide all weather connectivity to Tawang. It will also ensure better movement of troops and weaponry to various locations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China.

Arunachal Pradesh

** ITC Infotech, Harvard Business School unveil work-from-anywhere framework I – WFA

ITC Infotech came up with the product after a survey with clients and employees across geographies

Technology services firm ITC Infotech and Harvard Business School (HBS) have jointly developed a Work from Anywhere (I – WFA) productivity framework, which was unveiled on November 11.

I – WFA enables digital, distributed, flexible, outcome driven and secure future work scenario for clients and employees. It powers a distributed workplace and decentralised workforce.

From HBS, Lumry Family Associate Professor Prithwiraj Choudhury collaborated with the Indian tech company to build the data backed and succinct framework.

** This farmer promises better income, health from black wheat

A builder-turned-farmer in Punjab is growing black wheat, a variety of the foodgrain developed by National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) based here, for health benefits and better earnings.

Forty-five-year-old Amarpreet Singh Hira, who is a builder by profession but has a passion for agriculture, is growing the black wheat for the second consecutive year in his farm in Saifalpur village of Ropar district.

Punjab

** Lava becomes first Indian brand to launch 5G smartphone

The smartphone launched under the brand name ‘Agni’ has been developed by Lava in India and is getting manufactured at its plant in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Home-grown mobile phone company Lava International has become the first Indian brand to launch 5G smartphones for domestic consumers.