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Gulfood 2016 to usher in tastier trends

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Gulfood, one of the world’s leading food trading platforms, would be marking its 21st edition at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) on Sunday. The show would begin with top notch food exhibitors delivering the latest trends of food and offering new prospects to add more into the food trade in this region. Around 5,000-plus corporates ...

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Besides ‘Make in India,’ How about ‘Visit India’?

At a recent business conclave in Mumbai in the context of the “Make in India Week,” CNN’s famed foreign affairs commentator Fareed Zakaria made an innocuous suggestion to India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during the course of an interview. “Another area of job creation which strikes me,” said Zakaria, “is not quite ‘Make in India’ but ‘Visit India.’ ” Citing ...

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China’s hunt for aliens, scientists

China recently announced that it is relocating 9,110 villagers to make way for a giant telescope that — among other tasks — will search for extraterrestrial life. Once the unlucky residents are gone, the government will get down to the real business of the world’s largest radio telescope: attracting the scientific talent necessary to transform China’s economy. That won’t be ...

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