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Invite Friends Blog Sree Vijaykumar From the Editor's Desk No matter how much their carnivorous friends might deny it, vegetarians have a point: cutting out meat delivers multiple benefits. And the more who make the switch, the more those perks would manifest on a global scale. But if everyone became a committed vegetarian, there would be serious drawbacks for millions, if not billions, of people. "It's a tale of two worlds, really," says Andrew Jarvis of Colombia's International Centre for Tropical Agriculture. "In developed countries, vegetarianism would bring all sorts of environmental and health benefits. But in developing countries there would be negative effects in terms of poverty." More here Advertisers of the day The Economist: Subscribe now and get a Hidesign passport wallet free Ingram Micro Cloud: Streamline your creative process and secure your digital assets with Dropbox Business   Our advertisers help fund the daily operations of TradeBriefs. 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Team Leader – Payment Gateways BookMyShow Mumbai r Profile Your Profile Years of experience: 6 years and above, from E-Commerce/Banking/Payment Gateways/Financial & Accounting Systems and has been a Team... Sports India vs Australia 2017: Australia ‘hope’ to compete against the formidable Indian side Ind vs Aus 2017: Steve Smith & Co arrive in India for four Tests, minus the swagger of the previous teams from Down Under Sports PSG vs Barcelona: No love shown by PSG to Barcelona on Valentine’s Day in Paris, thump 4-0 in Champions League Barcelona never found their feet and were pounded 4-0 by an Angel Di Maria-inspired Paris St. Germain Telecom Price of biggest wave of M As? Massive job cuts likely in telecom industry Staff cost is around 4-4.5% of revenue, but the real crunch will come in sales and distribution, which in telecom is entirely people cost, said a HR head. Telecom Vodafone-Idea merger: Telecom companies may call for easing spectrum caps If India’s 2nd and 3rd-largest telcos do decide to merge, the resultant entity would need to surrender a significant amount of spectrum under the cu.. Politics What The Disproportionate Assets Case Verdict Means For Tamil Politics And Indian Democracy At Large A precedent has been set. Politics The Proposal And Disposal Of Modi's Election Reform The PM’s push for state funding of elections fizzled out with the Finance Minister’s minimal and status-quoist interventions. Digital India makes history! ISRO launches 104 satellites from a single rocket India made a new space record for the most satellites launched in one go following ISRO’s success in putting 104 satellites in orbit on Wednesday. Digital Payment gateway firm CCAvenue to merge with Infibeam Infibeam Incorporation Ltd has entered into a pact to merge CCAvenue with itself in a deal that is expected to value the payment gateway firm at Rs 2,000 crore ($298 million). The e-commerce company, which already owns 3.85% in Avenues India Pvt. Ltd-run CCAvenue through subsidiary NSI Infinium G Retail Modern retail to touch Rs 1,71,800 crore by 2019: Report Penetration of modern retail is expected to see a substantial rise from the current 19% to 24% in three years as per the report jointly authored by Knight Frank India and RAI Retail Seller associations do not concur with ecommerce giants reservations on GST The TCS clause mandates online marketplaces to deduct 2% per transaction and hand it over as collection towards GST to the government under the Act. This does not apply to retail sellers offline. Finance Tackling distressed loans: Bad bank is not a bad idea after all Despite efforts to curb bad loans, the result has been disappointing as Indias stressed assets are highest among big emerging markets. Finance Rallying rupee is RBI’s insurance policy for unpredictable times Rupee’s sharpest rally in almost a year is giving RBI scope to take out an insurance policy for what could be a tumultuous 2017 Logistics Govt to bring transport dept services to Delhiites' doorstep, with biometric data collection from home for driving licenses, registration after online registration New Delhi, Feb 14 (PTI) Delhiites will soon get services of transport department including driving licences, vehicle permits, registration, and Public Service Vehicle (PSV) badges among others at their doorstep as the AAP government today announced its ambitious project. Logistics India's latest airlines 'Zoom Air' is all set to fly today 15th Feb, commercial operations with Bombardier CRJ200 aircrafts with a clutter breaking aircraft color scheme of brown and red Zoom Air will be 12th operational airline in the domestic aviation market Software Why Infosys' former CFO V. Balakrishnan demands share buyback? Balakrishnan urged to the investors to tell the board and management to do a large buyback to protect shareholders' value which has not gone up in the last few years. Software What is happening with the Snapdeal crisis and SoftBank's startup empire in India? Twice in last six months, SoftBank has written off its investments in Ola and Snapdeal by USD 555 million in November 2016 and USD 475 million in Februray 2017. Collectively about a billion dollars have just vanished from SoftBank's India investments thus it has suffered a notional loss than gain in book value of these firms... HR Amazon to set up two new facilities in Coimbatore, Noida New Delhi, Feb 14 (PTI) Amazon Development Centre today announced its plans to open two customer service facilities -- one each in Coimbatore and Noida in April and June, respectively. HR India, Japan should serve global interests: Kiren Rijiju The minister said India and Japan must integrate themselves much more closely in trade as anything made in Japan is synonymous with quality. Ecommerce Seller associations do not concur with ecommerce giants' reservations on GST provision The TCS clause mandates online marketplaces to deduct 2% per transaction and hand it over as collection towards GST to the government under the Act. T.. Ecommerce Online recruitment activities in India grow by 11 percent, here's why BFSI is leading the chart Online recruitment activities for January 2017 continued to exceed the corresponding period a year-ago at the same rate as in December 2016; up by 11 Franchise Franchisee Newbies: Are you making use of the abundant information out there? The Ad said….  ‘Be your own boss’, and the information that followed talked about an exceptional franchise opportunity example.  The ‘Be your own boss’ expression is very often linked to franchising. Franchise Flipkart's Logistics Arm Ekart To Consolidate Operations; Shuts Down C2C, Hyperlocal Services The company has suspended the customer-to-customer courier service within months of its launch. It has also pulled the plug on hyperlocal delivery services being piloted across Bengaluru since March last year. Construction Nitin Gadkari says Real-time traffic updates will be provided through radio on NH soon The government will be starting highway radio services on various national highways spread across 13 states so as to provide real-time traffic updates Construction 9 Red and Pink Interiors Happy Valentine's Day from the Interior Design team! Celebrate with a few festive spaces from our archive.  The Renaissance New York Hotel Times Square, designed by... Food/FMCG How Nestle is rebuilding in India—18 months after the Maggi ban Since the Maggi ban in 2015, Nestle has reworked its strategy and now plans to focus on new product categories such as cereals, healthcare and skincare Food/FMCG Tetley sets a Guinness World Record, introduces new range of Vitamin tea TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us  |  Advertise Privacy Policy    Unsubscribe You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs. 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