Karina Pandya

  Some of the Indian Startups Paving their Way During Pandemic…   This has led to a tidal wave of entrepreneurial activity with many start-ups becoming a source of job growth, innovation and economic resiliency.     1)  ChefJunction – This is a website that enables users to order home-cooked food from their own home. The main target audience has been students who are away from their homes and miss home cooked meals.  It was founded in August 2020 by college mates Suryanshu Panda and Epari Pritam in Bhubaneswar.  This startup not only helps a person to order homemade meals but also provides a platform for home chefs to make a living.                2) Greenhive Essentials – This is a portal that sells eco-friendly, plastic-free alternatives for commonly used items. Some of these sustainable items include steel straws, bamboo toothbrushes, eco-friendly shopping bags and ...

It was in 2019 that the world economy began to face a complete synchronised slowdown (since the Great Recession). This was because global markets began to suffer a sharp deterioration of manufacturing activity. Although the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has blamed heightened trade and geopolitical tensions citing Brexit and the China-United States trade war as reasons for the slowdown in 2019, many economists blame liquidity issues.    This recession, which began in most countries in February 2020, is also known as the shortest global recession on record. Major indices dropped 20 to 30% in late February and March, while recovery began in April 2020. There were unusually high and rapid increases in unemployment in many countries. Moreover, global events such as the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war impacted the global stock-market crash.      With the 2020 stock market crash the world began to grapple with rapid and unanticipated sharp drops in stoc...