Tag: business
When the shoe fits
Women and their love for shoes never goes out of fashion. And as online markets are taking a lead in our generation, we are spoilt for choice. But one unarguable issue about buying your favourite footwear online is the fitting, which is quite uncertain! But for childhood friends, Kuppal Palaniappan[Read More…]
Jio’s new pricing will continues to affect industry, says COAI
Cellular operators’ body COAI has said Reliance Jio’s current charges will continue to affect the industry and there is a fair risk of the pricing having an impact on banks and others that are associated to telecom industry. Jio’s lower pricing for consumers is subjected to a bigger question whether[Read More…]
Karnataka gets award for empowering women entrepreneurs
Women empowerment is a need for a healthy society. In view of this, the government of Karnataka has taken effective measures to develop a healthy ecosystem dedicated to advance women entrepreneurship. By sustaining this culture, the women entrepreneurs in Karnataka have received an ideal platform which now invites global investments[Read More…]
This Dubai-based company is all set to take India’s HNIs to the skies
Over 200,000 Indian millionaires are readily choosing luxury in their air travel. India’s passenger growth has upped by 20% and according to the International Air Transport Association, we can overtake the United Kingdom as the world’s third-largest aviation market by 2026. While rich Indians can fly 1st Class, more and more[Read More…]
Chandigarh Sector 22 to be no-vending zone, says Mayor
The Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh is most likely to declare Sector 22 as a no-vending zone. As per the plan, street vendors may not be allowed to sit in the Sector. The shopkeepers of Sector 22 have complained as there are too many vendors functioning in the area considering that[Read More…]
Snapdeal in talks for a potential sale
Indian e-commerce company Snapdeal after having struggled to raised funds is in talks with Paytm-E-Commerce and Flipkart India for a potential sale as per LiveMint reports. However, the talks are still in its initial stages, Japan’s SoftBank which has invested roughly $900 million of the $2 billion or so raised by Snapdeal,[Read More…]
Starbucks popularity declines after CEO’s refugee remarks
Starbucks’s customers seem to be offended by Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz’s declaration, promising to employ thousands of refugees, post President Donald Trump’s first executive order that temporarily banned travel from seven mostly-Muslim nations. Schultz in a letter to employees said the promise of the American Dream was “being called into[Read More…]
Reliance Capital sells its stake in Paytm to Alibaba
On March 7, Business giant the Reliance Capital sold about 1% of its stake in digital payment portal Paytm to China’s Alibaba Group. It settled for Rs 275 crore, the cost of the deal, which will be procuring huge gains for the Ambani-led group. The finance arm of the Reliance group[Read More…]
Exclusive: DIPP collecting feedback on reforms; finalising Make in India 2.0
The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) is not silent on Make in India and is in fact in the process of fine-tuning an upgraded 2.0 version. DIPP secretary Ramesh Abhishek told Group Editor of Newsd, Shutapa Paul, in an exclusive chat that contrary to criticism Prime Minister Narendra[Read More…]
LeEco lays off 85% of its staff; likely to exit India
In less than a year of its release, LeEco had a drain of cash which lead to the high-flying company firing over 85% of its Indian staff and allowed two leadership exits. The industry, however, analyses this gradual disappearance of this Chinese company from India. Jobs have been shed at both[Read More…]
Instagram goes live with full-screen ad on Stories
Commerce Ministry to probe complaints on Snapdeal
Indian food industry has enormous economic future
Jio collaborate with Samsung to improve 4G service
New chairman of Tata Sons chairs his first board meeting
The newly appointed Chairman of Tata Sons, Natarajan Chandrasekaran speaks with the media at the company’s head office in Mumbai after he conducted his first board meeting as the head of the business giant Tata conglomerate on Tuesday. Tata Sons is the integral investment holding company for more than 100 Tata[Read More…]
Brand Ambassador sold to French carmaker Peugeot
China invites May to attend the Silk Road summit
Demonetisation has affected normal life says Chidambaram
BJP government’s demonetisation scheme of scrapping high-value currency notes in order to solve the problem of black money in India had a critical impact on the majority of the population in the country, said former Union minister P Chidambaram. Addressing a discussion on ‘Demonetisation scheme’, he claimed that the ban on high-value currency[Read More…]
H-1B visa reform bill introduced in US, doubles the minimum wage
A new code has been introduced in the US House of Representatives which calls for more than doubling the minimum salary of H-1B visa holders to $130,000. This legislation was passed along with other laws. The doubling of salary will further make it difficult for firms to use the programme to[Read More…]
Vodafone to merge with Idea Cellular in India
Shares of Idea Cellular increased as Vodafone on Monday confirmed that it is in talks to merge its Indian operations with contemporary Idea Cellular in an all-share deal. The motif of the deal is to counter the surging competition in the telecom market. As per Reuters, Vodafone said it was[Read More…]
Woman’s footwear without a back strap is a “sandal” not a “chappal” ruled High Court
A woman’s footwear without a back strap a “sandal” not a “chappal” says the Delhi High Court. The crucial judgment came as a Chennai-based footwear manufacturing company, Wishall International, challenged the court saying that a woman’s footwear without a back strap is a chappal and not a sandal. A customs[Read More…]
Mistry to fight a legal battle against Ratan Tata
Travel sector targets the gay market to make business
The travel sector across the globe are concentrating on a series of offers exclusively catering to gay tourists, who tend to spend more than most when away from home. The trend was underscored at the For instance, Fitur tourism fair in Madrid, one of the world’s largest, which wraps up[Read More…]
Demonetisation cost nearly four lakh jobs; daily wagers largely hit
After the announcement of demonetisation move by the government, some industries and its workers are going through a tough time. In fact, a large number of people have already lost their jobs as production gets hit, especially in labour-intensive sectors such as textiles, garments, leather and jewellery. Around 4 lakh[Read More…]