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Bureau Affirms Revisions in FDI Strategy

The Union Bureau led by the Executive Shri Narendra Modi, has given its endorsement to various revisions in the FDI Strategy. These are planned to change and disentangle the FDI approach in order to give simplicity of working together in the nation. Thusly, it will prompt bigger FDI inflows adding to development of venture, salary and work. Outside Direct Venture (FDI) is a noteworthy driver of financial development and a wellspring of non-obligation fund for the monetary improvement of the nation. Government has set up a financial specialist well disposed arrangement on FDI, under which FDI up to 100%, is allowed on the programmed course in many divisions/exercises. In the current past, the Legislature has brought FDI approach changes in various parts viz. Safeguard, Development Advancement, Protection, Annuity, Other Money related Administrations, Resource recreation Organizations, Broadcasting, Common Avionics, Pharmaceuticals, Exchanging and so on. Measures attempted by the Leg...

Smart City Concept and Services

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According to Pike Research on Smart Cities, 2  the Smart City market is estimated at hundreds of billion dollars by 2020, with an annual spending reaching nearly 16 billions. This market springs from the synergic interconnection of key industry and service sectors, such as Smart Governance, Smart Mobility, Smart Utilities, Smart Buildings, and Smart Environment. These sectors have also been considered in the European Smart Citie to define a ranking criterion that can be used to assess the level of “smartness” of European cities. Nonetheless, the Smart City market has not really taken off yet, for a number of political, technical, and financial barriers . Under the political dimension, the primary obstacle is the attribution of decision-making power to the different stakeholders. A possible way to remove this roadblock is to institutionalize the entire decision and execution process, concentrating the strategic planning and management of the smart city aspects into a single...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Consumer Protection in the Era of Globalisation

Introduction The consumer in his capacity as a spokesman of the request for goods has become a real partner on the market, whose occupied positions on the market are consolidating with the development of society. The sustainable development, the welfare of the society cannot be achieved only by maximizing short-term profits by traders, but rather through their responsible behaviour. The economic growths, the increase of the competitiveness, are increasingly linked to protecting the environment, promoting social responsibility and consumer interests. According to market needs, the main function of a company is to create value through the production of goods and services, generating, profit for the owners/stockholders. Social and marker pressures have led to a change of the values and the horizons to which the market agents are related. Purchasing behaviour of consumers increasingly affects more businesses, organizations, bodies and institutions; therefore, an increasingly great atte...

ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS IN INDIA

Beginning with the mid of the 20 th century and especially after the second world war the modem state, including India have undertaken numerous social welfare activities. A fter independence, India adopted a Constitution which sets forth the objective of achieving socio-economic justice to all and for constituting a welfare-State. With this motive in mind and with the expansion of governmental role the concept of the Administrative Tribunals originated. The word ‘tribunal’ takes its origin from the Latin term tribunus which means “a raised platform with the seat of judge, who elected by the pleas, protect their interests”. According to Oxford Dictionary, the tribunal means “Judgment Seat or “a Court of justice”. These are the public agencies that are other than the ordinary Courts of law that hear the disputes and give a final decision which binds the parties. They have the legal authority to determine any claim, controversy or dispute that affects the rights of the parties.   ...

Optical Wireless for quickly and high-throughput link connectivity

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Optical Wireless for quickly and high-throughput link connectivity THE PROBLEM:  Engineering services firms need to quickly and cost-effectively connect high-speed networks between office buildings or portable office work trailers. THE SOLUTION:  High-throughput beams of laser light connect buildings, enabling data-intensive computer-aided design, modeling and process simulation collaboration by engineering services firm employees in multiple sites. . The solution eliminates: • Duplicate data centers in multiple buildings. • Time-consuming installations. • T1 and E1 throughput constraints. • Costly fiber investments. • Reliance on fixed-line service providers. • In-ground fiber requirements. Additional Benefits include: • Full speed, bi-directional communication. • Not reliant on service provider fiber line availability. • Secure connections cannot be sniffed or detected. • Installed and operational in a day. • Immune from interferenc...

Blockchain and IOT: Long Lasting Friends

The rapid advance of Blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) are felt throughout our daily lives. A Gartner  study  estimates Blockchain will add $3.1 trillion in business value by 2030, and in another  analysis  the global IoT market is expected to grow from $157B in 2016 to $457B by 2020. We are about to see more change than we could imagine with Blockchain and IoT. These applications will disrupt existing processes across variety of industries including manufacturing, trading, shipping, the financial sector and healthcare. In spite of these advancements security remains a top concern for the IoT ecosystem as it exposes multiple devices, huge amounts of data, supply chain partners and the community as a whole to security breaches. For example, in healthcare the privacy integrity and control over access to data is paramount and critically important. As the connections of various IoT devices that monitor a patient’s real-time medical data increases...