Retail
Flipkart set to raise up to $1.5 bn – but at lower valuation
08 Mar 2017
Flipkart requires funding to stave off fierce competition from rivals like Amazon and the latest entrant Alibaba
Paytm Mall to take on Flipkart and Amazon
27 Feb 2017
Snapdeal axes 600; co-founders Bahl, Bansal take 100% pay cut
23 Feb 2017
Snapdeal co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal admitted in an email to employees that they had started growing too fast and diversifying too much, and added they would now look for the right mix
Has Warren Buffet written the requiem for retail stores?
22 Feb 2017
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway recently sold $900 million of Walmart stock, leaving Buffet with nearly no shares in the brick-and-mortar retailer, even as he sings the praises of thriving online rival Amazon. By Jagdeep Worah
Trump brand doesn’t sell: now Sears, Kmart drop products
13 Feb 2017
Sears and Kmart have followed firms like Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus in dropping Trump-branded products, as the companies take calculated risks in making business decisions that might antagonise the president
Snapdeal to cut 30% jobs as fund sources dry up
11 Feb 2017
The move is expected to affect about 1,000 employees directly employed in the company’s ecommerce marketplace while thousands of contract workers in the logistics division are also expected to be let off
Macy’s under pressure to drop Ivanka Trump line of merchandise
07 Feb 2017
Retail chain Macy's is facing pressure to drop Ivanka Trump's line after Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus stopped selling her merchandise
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In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
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COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation