Business
Is revival of Indian economy sustainable?
November 6, 2020
In October, India’s services sector grew for the first time since February reflecting the reopening of hotels, restaurants and shopping malls around the country. Accordingly, the Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for services rose sharply to 54.1 pc for October as against 49.8...
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Time to move from 2+2 to 3+3
October 29, 2020
US secretary of state Michael Pompeo along with secretary of defence Mark T Esper visited India for the third India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogue. The visit comes a week before the American presidential election 2020 to be held on November 3. The India-US 2+2 talks focused on four ...
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Stage set for battle of giants over India’s e-ta...
October 19, 2020
As Mukesh Ambani stitches series of deals to establish market leadership in India’s e-commerce and retail market, rivals, notably Amazon and Walmart, are not likely to stand by and watch.
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Tanishq buckles under, while Bajaj & Parle G ...
October 15, 2020
Recently two contrasting images of how corporate India responds to social issues facing the country emerged. While Bajaj Group and Parle Products decided to withdraw advertising from television channels spreading hatred and fake news, Tanishq, part of the once-venerated Tata Grou...
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H1B Visa Ban: Time for Indian IT firms to move bey...
October 8, 2020
For the last five quarters, the results of the Indian IT firms, key drivers of the country’s stock markets, have depended upon mood swings of the highly temperamental and unpredictable President of the United States Donald Trump. Ever since he began targeting the relatively sma...
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Travel agents’ association unhappy with SC r...
October 6, 2020
Hundreds of Indian travel agents are staring at total collapse as airlines keep sitting on refunds of billions of rupees in cancelled tickets.
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Google, Paytm spat a precursor to several more
September 22, 2020
On September 19, Google suddenly removed from its Play Store the online payment application, Paytm, country’s largest digital payments company, citing breach of its anti-gambling policy. It also dropped Paytm fantasy gaming app, Paytm Games First, hours before start of the firs...
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Industries that pipped the pandemic
September 20, 2020
“I stopped taking food from local tiffin service since April. I switched to ordering from Swiggy regularly as it assured me of following all possible safety and hygiene measures including the body temperature of the delivery person and cleanliness rating of the restaurant I ord...
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Why India should not rush into a free trade deal w...
September 15, 2020
Last week the UK and Japan announced that they had reached a bilateral free trade agreement that would govern their trade ties from the year 2020 when the UK completed its exit from the European Union and hence also exited the ambit of the EU-Japan trade pact. Both the countries ...
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Pandemic to cloud Indian automobile market despite...
September 12, 2020
On Thursday, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said that the passenger vehicle sales in August stood at 215,916 units, a rise of 14 pc as compared to August 2019, ending a 9-month long losing streak that had clouded the mood in the world’s fourth largest automob...
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