Special Reports

Arun Sharma, Executive Chairman of the Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass), has been elected as the new Chairman of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) in a recent Council meeting held in Busan.

Yangon International Airport (YIA) has launched a marketing campaign to tap Southeast Asian bound tourists from India with a series of roadshows, including to major Indian cities, in line with the India-ASEAN Air Connectivity initiative.

India, which depends almost completely on the annual monsoons, currently faces the most severe water crisis in the annals of its known history. A recent report by NITI Aayog predicted that as many as 21 cities in the country will...

India will be hosting the 14th session of Conference of Parties (COP-14) from 29 August–14 September 2019, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced on 17 June 2019 in Delhi, stressing on India’s role in combating desertification.

India is hosting the Intersessional meeting of Kimberley Process (KP) 17-21 June 2019 in Mumbai to address the flow of Conflict Diamonds which used by rebel movements or their allies to finance conflict aimed at undermining legitimate governments.

The Indian tourism industry is seeing a shift from destination-based to experience-based tourism, especially from millennial tourists, whose itinerary tops by Tamil Nadu.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 on 15 July at 2:51 am, aiming to land on the Moon either on 6 or 7 September 2019.

Certain requirements to make online websites accessible for disabled persons have been prescribed under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Rules, 2017.

The Baxter International Foundation has announced a US$2.2 million grant to Operation Smile, one of the world’s largest volunteer-based surgical nonprofit organizations, to deliver free surgical and multidisciplinary care to underserved communities in India.

Recently, the Chandigarh Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (Tribunal) upheld1the denial of registration under section 12AA2of the Income Tax Act, 1961 (ITA) to M/s Jiwan Dass Kartar Singh Charitable Trust (Trust) which was acting as a franchisee of...