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Indian mobile app market: juggernaut in the making

The smartphone market in India has been growing at an exponential rate over the last few years. Boosted by the availability of low cost smartphones by local manufacturers and Chinese companies, the Indian smartphone market has been

Growth before consolidation: Indian economy as envisioned by the Budget 2015-16

The Narendra Modi government presented its second budget plan on Saturday, the 28th of February for the year fiscal year 2015-16.

Alternative medicine: where mainstream meets the avant-garde

Modern day medicine has been developing at a breakneck speed. Everyday there are new discoveries; new cures are being tested and marketed, eliminating the threat of diseases that have loomed large over humanity for thousands of years.

Sector Updates: Automotive and Transport

Globally, the automotive industry has been witnessing steady growth over the past couple of years. According to industry experts, the sale of passenger cars is expected to reach 72.2 million in 2014.

Sector Updates: Healthcare

Globally, the healthcare industry has been witnessing steady growth over the last couple of years. According to market analysts, globally it will reach a value of USD 3 trillion by 2015.

High hopes for revival of Indian economy with new government’s mandate

Even with the election of the new government, which helped India’s lumbering economy register its fastest growth in two-and-a-half years, the truth is that the new government inherited an economic mess.

FM broadcasting in India: then and now

In a country like India, FM broadcasting has always held a special place. Being a developing country, television came to India quite late.

Sector Updates: IT, Telecom and Electronics

IT and Telecommunication sector has been growing quite steadily in the past couple of years. Globally, the telecommunications industry will be about a USD 5.4 trillion sector in 2014, up from USD 5 trillion for the previous

Sector Updates: Services Sector

Services sector, or the tertiary sector of the industry, has been going through a lean patch all around the globe. The recent bouts of recession seem to have been particularly unkind to the services sector.

Impact of the rising cigarette prices in India

India is accountable for around 10% of the tobacco smokers in the world. The recent budget hiked the tax on retail prices of cigarettes by a great extent.