Business
BlaBlaCar expands to 20 new countries, builds on g...
July 4, 2026
India has emerged as BlaBlaCar’s largest carpooling market, recording 19 million passengers and 47 pc year-on-year growth in 2025, as the French mobility platform expanded into 20 new countries, taking its global presence to 41 markets across Europe, Latin America, Southeas...
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Picture Perfect: Pre-wedding Photography Picks Pac...
July 1, 2026
As weddings in India, already the most flamboyant in the world, become more about style than substance, favouring moments over memories. Pre-wedding photography has become an almost mandatory prologue to series of ceremonies, which already extend over several days. As a result, p...
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Hotels emerging as mainstream investment asset cla...
June 30, 2026
Analysing around 125 hotel transactions covering 37,847 keys worth INR 365.64 billion, Noesis Hotel Advisors, a hospitality consulting firm, says that hotels in India are emerging as a mainstream investment asset, attracting institutional investors, developers, family offices, le...
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Waterways Leisure Tourism launches INR 5.85 billio...
June 18, 2026
The parent company of Cordelia Cruises, a leading ocean cruise operator in India, Waterways Leisure Tourism has fixed the price band of INR 769-808 per equity share for its Initial Public Offering, a INR 5.85 billion fresh issue opening on June 23 and closing on June 25, with the...
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Alarming rise in inequal access to cooling as heat...
June 2, 2026
The Indian Meteorological Department has issued a warning for severe and prolonged heat-wave across large parts of northern and central India for the next 10 days as temperatures during the day and night are likely to stay well above the average for this period of the year. With ...
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Global air cargo demand up 4 pc in April: IATA
May 29, 2026
Global air cargo demand rose 4 pc year-on-year (YoY) in April, driven by strong Asia-linked trade flows, even as capacity declined 0.4 pc and geopolitical disruptions, rising fuel costs and uneven regional performance continued to shape global trade conditions, according to the I...
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Make in India: Strong in speeches, poor in perform...
May 28, 2026
Those looking for a sector with a yawning gap between stated political ambition and the physical reality need not look further than manufacturing, a sector which has been hyped up by Narendra Modi ever since he took charge as Prime Minister in 2014, with a high-profile launch of ...
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Inflation spikes up days after fuel price hike
May 21, 2026
Petrol and diesel prices rose another 90 paise per litre on Tuesday, taking the growing rise to INR 3.90 in five days and the pain is spreading well beyond the fuel pump. The current effect of rising fuel costs has already begun pushing up prices of daily essentials, with milk pr...
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RBI tightens norms, flags risks as household debt ...
May 1, 2026
Household finances in India are shifting from savings-led stability to credit-driven consumption. With easier access to retail loans, household debt has risen steadily in recent years, even as savings have shown volatility. According to the Reserve Bank of India, household debt s...
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Rising retail fuel prices reflect strain in Indiaâ...
April 13, 2026
Recently, motorists in cities across India were caught off guard by a sudden spike in fuel prices last week, It was not the familiar state-run oil marketing companies leading the charge; instead, smaller, private players like Nayara Energy, which operates India’s largest privat...
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