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Iran Currency Crisis {Global Trade Issue}
Why Millions Of Tons Of imports waiting at Iran’s Ports Recent update from Iran say that 1.3 million metric tons of “essential goods” have arrived in Iranian waters but cannot be unloaded because importers have not been able to obtain hard currency from the goverment to pay foreign vendors in full. When Iran’s currency began to…
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Corporates should come forward to work directly with farmers says Priyanka Singh – Trade Promotion Council of India {TPCI}
Priyanka Singh, Director, Taj Agro, opines that corporates should lease out their land and provide better competitive rates to farmers for their products. They should also impart training to horticulturists related to modern technology techniques being employed in horticulture. This would also improve the living standards of farmers to a great extent. IBT: How have…
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Priyanka Singh – Founder of Taj Agro Interview {by Great Companies}
Great Companies: Please tell me something about the business and how did you come up with such an idea? Priyanka Singh: The Core idea of establishment of Taj Agro has been to connect our rural Indian farmers in our supply chain reducing the exploitation of middle men in the food industry. Taj Agro was started with…
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Why Economics needs a moral awakening, Policymaking and much more
Why Economics needs a moral awakening, Policymaking and much more
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An Immigrant’s Christmas Eve
We could have been turned away at the border. But a law enforcement officer granted my family a few days of freedom. On the night that we first came to the United States — Christmas Eve, 1979 — my mother, my brother and I were what President Trump would probably call illegal aliens. Like most…
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{How to be the boss in 2019} when your employees feel like they are going nowhere [Priyanka Singh, Pharma entrepreneur]
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“Sent you a voicemail, but I won’t be able to make it into work today.” This is the text I get fifteen minutes before Saul’s shift. It’s his last shift before the weekend and it is not the first time this has happened. Managing someone like Saul can be difficult because I know why he…
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Why the Future of Leadership isn’t About (More) Patriarchy, Capitalism, and Supremacy
Why Two Young Women Have More to Teach Us About Leadership Today Than All the Angry Old White Dudes in the World Quick: if I say “leader”, do you a) roll your eyes b) want to punch me c) smash your fist against your head or d) all of the above? So: are there “leaders”…
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Focus on Your Impact, Not Your Legacy
I used to think a lot about my funeral. I wanted to do great things and be remembered by people. I wanted them to say nice things about me after I was gone. I thought I was talking about legacy. But really it was all about ego. Let me tell you a little something about…
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Agro-forestry is solution to avoiding food crisis: Sadhguru
As part of Rally for Rivers, an initiative to revive depleting rivers across the country, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of Isha Foundation, on Saturday, launched the ‘Cauvery Calling’ initiative. BENGALURU: If every person contributed Rs 42, it will cover the cost of saplings for nearly five million farmers, in an initiative to introduce agro-forestry along the…
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What Do 90-Somethings Regret Most in life
My preconceptions about older people first began to crumble when one of my congregants, a woman in her 80s, came into my office seeking pastoral care. She had been widowed for several years but the reason for her distress was not the loss of her husband. It was her falling in love with a married…