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Times Business Awards 2021 is an initiative done by The Times Group to recognise and honour the trailblazers from Kolkata and celebrate the essence of their excellence. It was a grand event when the business community gathered to celebrate entrepreneurial excellence. Other dignitaries from different walks of life joined in to cheer the entrepreneurs who shone during these trying times in their respective fields. The chief guest of the function, Anupam Kher, said: “ It’s lovely to be back in the City of Joy. ” ( L to R - Lamp lighting ceremony by Subrata Chakraborty, Bratya Basu, Koel Mallick, Nusrat Jahan, Praveen Srivastava, Jacques Bartz ) Times Business Awards 2021: Winner List Times Best manufacturer of Structural Tubes - Tata Structura Times Leading Cement Brand - Ambuja Cement Times Best management school - IIM, Kolkata Times Leading Surface Disinfectant Spray – Savlon Times Best Cardiac & Multi-Speciality Hospital - Rabindranath Tagore International ... » Learn More about Times Business Awards Kolkata 2021: Recognizing brands & celebrating their excellence in the business world

IMAGE: Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka celebrate winning the Australian Open women's doubles title in Melbourne on Friday. Photograph: Matt King/Getty Images Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka beat Czech pair Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova 6-2, 6-3 to win the Australian Open women's doubles title on Friday for their second Grand Slam trophy together. Seeded second at Melbourne Park, the pair won their maiden major at the 2019 US Open and the victory at the Rod Laver Arena was their fifth title overall. IMAGE: Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic pose with their runners up trophies. Photograph: Matt King/Getty Images However, they will not be teaming up at Grand Slam events for the rest of 2021 as Sabalenka wants to focus on singles. IMAGE: Elise Mertens and Aryna Sabalenka won their maiden major at the 2019 US Open and the victory at the Rod Laver Arena was their fifth title overall. Photograph: Matt King/Getty ... » Learn More about PIX: Mertens-Sabalenka clinch Aus Open doubles title

Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- When Mao Zedong stood on Tian'anmen Rostrum in Beijing to declare the birth of New China in 1949, a Herculean task stood before him and the Communist Party of China (CPC) that he led: feeding and clothing 540 million Chinese people, nearly 90 percent of whom lived in rural areas. "Poverty is not socialism," "socialism means eliminating poverty," and "we must keep abreast of the times; that is the purpose of our reform," said Deng Xiaoping, the visionary chief architect of China's reform and opening-up which began in 1978 when the country's incidence of rural poverty was 97.5 percent. Eradicating poverty is a war China must win, with the hardest and most arduous tasks lie in the country's rural areas and poverty-stricken regions. In 2020, all of China's nearly 100 million rural residents living below the current poverty line shook off poverty after eight years of arduous efforts. The historical feat of eradicating absolute ... » Learn More about China Focus: Is China’s poverty cure replicable?

Video Player Close number of foreigners visiting Turkey stood at 12.7 million in 2020, dropping by 71.7 percent from the previous year mainly because of global travel restrictions and lockdowns, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced recently. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui) ISTANBUL, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- Following a grim 2020 marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Turkey's tourism sector anticipates better results this year amid a vaccination rollout, but a return to pre-pandemic times remains elusive for now, industry insiders say. Choked off by the coronavirus, the number of foreigners visiting Turkey stood at 12.7 million in 2020, dropping by 71.7 percent from the previous year mainly because of global travel restrictions and lockdowns, the Culture and Tourism Ministry announced recently. Meanwhile, the Turkish Statistical Institute revealed that Turkey's tourism revenues slipped by 65.1 percent year on year to 12.6 billion U.S. dollars last year. In 2019, Turkey's tourism ... » Learn More about Turkey’s tourism industry eyes rebound after grim year

Video Player Close Photo taken on Feb. 24, 2021 shows the COVID-19 vaccines donated by China at the Maputo International Airport in Maputo, Mozambique. A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived here on Wednesday to help the African country fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was also the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines received by the country. (Photo by Israel Zefanias/Xinhua) MAPUTO, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived here on Wednesday to help the African country fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was also the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines received by the country. Speaking after a delivery ceremony at the airport, Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario praised China's role in fighting the pandemic and thanked the Chinese people for the friendship, adding that "the rapid availability of vaccines against COVID-19 reflects the commitment and determination" of both the Chinese and ... » Learn More about Mozambique receives its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from China

February 25, 2021 13:16 FC Seoul midfielder Ki Sung-yueng has been caught up in a recent wave of allegations of historic abuse against sports celebrities. Ki (32) has been accused of sexually assaulting team members when he was still in elementary school. Ki on Wednesday denied the allegations and threatened to sue the accuser for defamation. Accusations of abuse that first rocked the professional volleyball league spread to the world of baseball and now football. Attorney Park Ji-hoon said Wednesday, "Two individuals claim they were forced to perform oral sex on two older teammates when they were fifth graders at a football club in South Jeolla Province during a training camp in 2000." "One perpetrator is a former national team member who recently joined a well-known team in the capital and the other is a lecturer at a regional university," the lawyer added. "The victims were smaller, had introverted personalities and faced physical assault if they did not comply. ... » Learn More about Star Footballer Caught up in Historic Abuse Rumors

New Delhi: MG Motor India has manufactured its 50,000th Hector with an all-women crew in Gujarat’s Vadodara. The initiative has created a new benchmark while celebrating ‘Diversity’ – one of the core pillars of the automaker – as women led the end-to-end production. In this first-of-its-kind development, women-only teams were involved in panel-pressing of sheet metal and welding to painting jobs as well as carrying out post-production test runs, the company said in a statement. MG Motors said that it aims to achieve 50% gender diversity in its organization in the future and pave the way for a balanced workforce. Since 2018, MG has hired many female associates in its manufacturing facility. MG’s Halol manufacturing facility is further equipped with Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for various workshops. RPA is used by the automaker in Body Shop for Robotic Brazing, Paint Shop for Robotic Primer and Top Coating, and GA Shop for Robotic ... » Learn More about What is so cool about the 50,000th MG Hector SUV? Well, it is manufactured by an all-women crew

FRANKFURT: Swiss utility Axpo said it had signed a deal to supply electricity to French food firm Danone from British Green Investment Group's onshore wind farm in Poland , as companies look to step up their switch to green energy. Global food and drink company Danone has committed to securing all of its purchased electricity from renewable sources by the end of 2030, up from 50% in 2020. Axpo said the 10-year so-called power purchase agreement ( PPA ) will mean Danone's Polish operations will have access to round-the-clock power, taking the bulk of output from the 25.3 megawatt (MW) Jozwin wind park from January. Axpo will ensure delivery to Danone, provide for the marketing of any excess volumes and provide balancing power at times of low production via Axpo's access to the Polish spot market. Public sector-owned Axpo is Switzerland 's largest producer of renewable energy with trading operations that include international PPAs in Germany, the Nordics and ... » Learn More about Axpo signs deal to supply Danone with green energy from Polish wind farm

New Delhi: With a goal of promoting local manufacturing, India’s new budget tripled to 15 per cent the duty on imported solar lanterns , while the duty on solar inverters would rise from 5 per cent to 20 per cent. The off-grid solar industry, which already saw a 10 per cent decline in solar lantern sales in 2019-2020, is bracing for an ever bigger hit because of the new tariffs. As a result, off-grid industry executives are calling for a more measured approach that accounts for the current gap in quality local production while ensuring that India’s rural poor are protected from expected price hikes until that gap is filled. “We understand that the increase in duties has the undesirable effect of making certain products in the market expensive for end-customers,” said Piyush Mathur, board member of CLEAN, a trade group representing over 200 distributed renewable energy companies. “However, the new duty structure also offers our member companies an opportunity to build and ... » Learn More about Off-grid solar industry bracing for impact of import duty hike for lanterns and inverters

New Delhi: Soaring fuel prices , environmental awareness and the new vehicle scrappage policy announced in Budget 2021 are likely to encourage a gradual shift to electric vehicles in the coming years. Personal vehicles make up more than 90 percent of registered motor-vehicles in India, with nearly 162.6 million two-wheelers sold between 2011-2020. Hence, for the nation to realize its EV vision, facilitating its uptake among individual consumers – both four- and two-wheeler users – is as important as electrifying commercial fleets. However, a critical obstacle to boosting individual uptake today, is the lack of charging infrastructure at convenient locations. With studies showing that about 50-80 percent of private charging happens at homes and another 15-25 percent at the workplace, it is essential to equip our buildings with the necessary infrastructure for EV charging . Aiming for the low-hanging fruits Charging points in buildings will need to primarily cater to ... » Learn More about OPINION: Prepping our buildings today for an EV-ready future