Business
Reliance interest in farming & food paramount
January 6, 2021
In the eye of the unprecedented storm over the new farm laws rammed through Parliament by the government in September, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries has tried to take inspiration from Mahabharata’s Yudhishthir in a statement as well as the petition its subsidiary Relian...
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Gift retailers Archies, Fern N Petals hit hard by ...
December 30, 2020
Greeting cards were an expression of love and passion, primarily among the teenagers and the youth. Archies was the torchbearer of exchanging hushed greetings between lovers in India. In 1987, Archies inaugurated its first concept store in Kamla Nagar, Delhi and pumped by popular...
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Time for Indian government to rein in its aggressi...
December 26, 2020
On Wednesday, Permanent Court of Arbitration based in the Netherlands awarded USD 1.2 billion plus costs and interest in damages to the British energy company Cairn Energy Plc in a tax dispute with the Indian government over retrospective application of tax. The case dates back t...
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Future of Indian real estate business post-pandemi...
December 19, 2020
Even though the Covid-19 pandemic drastically impacted real estate sector in 2020, experts hope for better days in 2021, on the condition that situation becomes normal and real estate adapts to newer trends.
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Reliance unnerved by farmers’ calls for boycott
December 15, 2020
It was less than a week ago that protesting farmers launched a boycott of Reliance Jio and began throwing their Jio SIM cards away as a sign of protest against one of the companies that they believe are likely to gain at their cost due to the recently enacted farm laws. There wer...
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Brexit agreement remains cliffhanger
December 12, 2020
When Boris Johnson left for Brussels on Thursday for a dinner meeting with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, both knew that they would have a lot more than just the dinner to chew over as it was the ‘last chance’ to break the deadlock over Brexit ...
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Celebrations over economic revival in India premat...
December 2, 2020
“Q2 GDP at -7.5 pc buttresses recovery as captured by several high frequency indicators,” tweeted India’s finance ministry on November 27 while releasing data about the state of the economy in second quarter of the fiscal year 2020-21. Since then, numerous ministers and pol...
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Race for Covid-19 vaccine enters last lap: Which v...
November 24, 2020
The high efficiency in final trials of key Race for Covid-19 vaccines indicates that the world may receive the most sought after vaccine ever within days. A total of 60 candidate vaccines are under development, of which nearly half a dozen are at the door-steps of commercial laun...
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By sitting out of RCEP, India does not lose econom...
November 20, 2020
As Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement becomes operational, there is pressure on India to join the world’s largest trade grouping. But India needs to stay away from trade deals in general as its gains may not amount to much.
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Sons of soil back in focus with Haryana law on job...
November 11, 2020
Haryana Assembly recently passed a law reserving 75 pc of private sector jobs quota bill for residents of the state. The populist move is likely to hit the state economy by driving away industry and hurting workers.
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