Business
India’s blossoming billion-dollar beauty market
September 27, 2021
Move over fashion and beauty magazines. Tens of millions of Indian women, young and not so young, are looking at their smartphones for the latest hot tips on beauty and make-up as Indian beauty influencers such as Kaushal Beauty, Shreya Jain and Malvika Sitlani have garnered hund...
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The boom of fashion e-commerce in India
September 22, 2021
In the last decade, e-commerce has transformed the business landscape worldwide, recently driven by the almost complete shift to online shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic. Although many fashion retailers, even strong, established brands such as Zara, have experienced a fall in...
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Need to regulate human invasion of Space
September 14, 2021
For long, it was the purview of the government to decide who would get to the space. But no longer so. Now, almost anyone who can afford to pay for it seems to be getting a ticket. For instance, in the matter of a few weeks, after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, another billionai...
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Indian economy: Pandemic recovery long way off
September 8, 2021
On August 31, the Union finance ministry tweeted a self-congratulatory message saying its prediction of a V-shaped, or very rapid, recovery in the Indian economy had come true as the Gross Domestic Product in the first quarter, ending on June 30, 2021, spiked by 20.1 pc over the ...
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Edtech firms ride pandemic waves to dominate India...
September 4, 2021
One of the first successful edtech companies, the non-profit Khan Academy, was launched by an Indian-origin American, Sal Khan. The organisation’s videos have been viewed almost two billion times and later inspired many more edtech startups to come into the market, even winning...
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National Monetisation Pipeline: Backdoor privatisa...
August 27, 2021
Unveiling the NMP on Monday, Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was at pains to say that the monetisation plan was not akin to privatisation but “it aims to unlock value in brownfield projects by engaging the private sector, transferring to them revenue rights and not o...
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Small businesses move online in a desperate bid to...
August 16, 2021
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit India last year, the country’s economy was enormously impacted. There was a massive drop in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 24.4 pc from April to June 2020, making this year the worst in India’s history in terms of economic contraction, with inc...
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Weak governance continues to haunt Indian boardroo...
August 8, 2021
Earlier this week, Gautam Thapar, head of Avantha Group, a paper, power and real estate conglomerate, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on charges of money laundering. Thapar was arrested following an alleged property transaction where Thapar’s firm ‘gifted’ INR 3...
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Internet of Behaviour: A boon or a breach of priva...
July 19, 2021
In 2021, the ease of internet connectivity is something many can take for granted. Most daily tasks and actions that once required a series of actions or human interaction are now simplified and just a couple of clicks away, especially tasks such as food delivery, cinema or show ...
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4 years of GST: Anything but a Good, Simple Tax
July 10, 2021
When the Narendra Modi government rushed with the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), within weeks of its passage in the Parliament, several economists and opposition leaders had cautioned the government against a hurried implementation, advocating that that more ...
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