Cover Story – FSSAI - Low standards of standardising

With power comes responsibility. But it’s easy to get drunk on power, and forget about responsibility. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in its eight years of existence, seems to be hell-bent on proving exactly this. Set up with great fanfare to raise the hygiene and safety standards of food products in India, FSSAI is today, far removed from its core objectives and has ended up being just a penal authority. Why else is the industry, which generally tries to avoid being on the wrong books of the bureaucracy, repeatedly knocking the doors of the judiciary for respite against FSSAI’s diktats? And have such repeated frictions with the industry led to any introspection from within FSSAI’s ranks? Or have they only made India’s food regulator more of a confrontationist?? read more

Global Trade – This month

The never ending friction in China-USA trade relations and much more

Spotlight - Benin

Small doesn’t mean it doesn’t hold enough potential for Indian exporters read more

India Trade – This month

From boosting trade ties with Myanmar to using technology in handicrafts exports and more

Overseas Talk – Joakim Reiter

Head, International Trade Policy, MFA, Sweden, tells us all there is to know about bilateral trade read more

Infographics - Tobacco

Come what may, this trade never has and most likely, never will see a slowdown read more

Global Corporation - Bharat Forge

If only India had more like this world’s largest forging company read more

Global Manager - Ashwini Chanan, Honeywell India

On what makes India’s offering of aircraft components very diverse read more

Import’onomics - PVC Resins

Another market in which anti-dumping duties have created nothing but distortions read more

Midas Touch - Soybean Meals

How changing market dynamics have ensured India losing out on this multi-billion dollar export read more

Globetrotter - Punj Lloyd

If foreign shores turned out to be beds of thorn, isn’t it time for this EPC major to head home? read more

Dockyard - Haldia Dock complex

Too embroiled in politics to make economic sense, despite the ouster of the Left read more

Policy Monitor - Lekhraj Maheshwari, Chairman, EPCH

On everything that needs to be done to boost handicrafts exports read more

Prime Focus - Oil crash

Can a 50% drop in prices in a few months be just a function of demand and supply read more

Newgen Newsmaker - Rakesh Dugar, MD, Mitashi Edutainment

Success secret of this rising star read more

Datebook

Some trade fairs you shouldn’t miss out on in both India and abroad in March and April read more

Amit Kalyani – Executive Director, Bharat Forge

Tells us about the road ahead for the $5 billion market cap manufacturing giant read more

Atul Punj, Chairman, Punj Lloyd

On why he thinks the turnaround has started for the EPC giant read more