A hotel in 1975, entry into paperboards in 1979, India's dominant cigarette maker, ITC, read the tea - or tobacco - leaves early, leveraged its enterprise strengths and stepped up the diversification agenda to create multiple drivers of growth. Some failed, some faltered, some were transformational, adding steadily to the top line. Now those efforts are making a difference: margins from non-cigarettes - FMCG, hotels, agri, paperboards, paper and packaging - are expanding and profits are kicking in more significantly than ever before.
As the curtain come down on 2022, Roshmila Bhattacharya flashbacks to some of the year's newsmakers and events.
Karan Johar hosted a huge birthday party for Apoorva Mehta, the CEO of Dharma Productions, who turned 50 on March 17.
Joginder Tuteja looks at forthcoming films inspired by the Ramayan.
More and more pictures from Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor's wedding!
Songs like Mehendi Hai Rachne Waali, Dholida, Tenu Leke Main Jawaanga and Cutiepie have been selected for the performances.
Karan Johar brought in his 50th birthday on May 25 with his friends, who arrived before midnight at his home to celebrate.
How many of these films will actually go on to have the next installment? Let's check out.
Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor's wedding was a big reunion for their families.
It's Bollywood's biggest wedding this year, and the guest list is as starry as ever.
The advance bookings of Brahmastra are looking very good.
Karan Johar had a house party on Friday and Saturday.
Two double centuries, three movies over the Rs 150 crore mark and five centuries -- that's how the repertoire looks like for Karan Johar and his Dharma Productions.
Bollywood A-listers Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor got married on Thursday, not in a big fat Indian wedding spangled with tinsel as many would have imagined but at their Bandra apartment with just family and close friends in attendance.
Mumbai airport was abuzz with activity as film folk made their way back to the city after spending New Year's Eve in exotic locations in India and abroad.
While we wait to see just how good Brahmastra is and how well it does at the box office, Joginder Tuteja looks at how sci-fi movies have done in recent times.
K V Anand, noted Tamil film director and cinematographer died in Chennai early on Friday due to cardiac arrest, sources close to his family said.
Officials of the NCB, which filed its chargesheet in a Mumbai court, said Aryan Khan and five others had not been named due to 'lack of sufficient evidence'.
Sukanya Verma lists SRK's special avatars in the movies.
For the first time ever, Alia has scored a Rs 100 crore+ weekend opener, which takes her straight to the superstar league.
The CBI has carried out searches at 15 locations in connection with the case related to attempt to murder of Dharma Mandal who suffered serious injuries after his family was attacked on May 14 night at their home in Nadia district's Chapra.
Amitabh Bachchan shared pictures from the sets of his upcoming film, Brahmastra.
Where the larger-than-life villain hogged the show by hurting the hero or throwing hurdles in his path, the role of his female counterpart has evolved from seductive sidekick to she-devil.
Besides acting, he loves spending time with family and friends, so we won't be surprised if Ranbir keeps his birthday an intimate affair.
White-lipped tamarin is a type of monkey that lives in the Amazon area of Brazil and Bolivia. Prevost's squirrel is a colourful species from the forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and nearby islands. Sugar gliders are tiny marsupials - 6.3 to 8.3 inches in length - native to Australia.
There is a kind of audacious large-scale experimentation which is admirable, even if the novelty and potential of the idea are not fully realised, notes Deepa Gahlot.
On Deepika Padukone's 35th birthday on January 5, husband Ranveer Singh hosted a party.
Sukanya Verma looks at the many ways fire enjoys a significant presence in our movies.
The actor was buried at the Versova Kabarstan in north west Mumbai.
The yet-to-tiled film will go on floors at the end of this year!
I remember Alia as a baby when she visited the sets of her father Mahesh Bhatt's Zakhm where I was the hero.'
Joginder Tuteja looks at winning actor-director jodis, who have made Rs 100 crore movies and are returning for an encore.
*Everyone* in Bollywood celebrated the man who has become such an integral part of the industry.
In the early part of 1800, a 30-acre plot next to Fort Gloster on the banks of river Hooghly in Howrah district of Bengal was the nerve centre of industrial activity; it housed India's first steam-powered cotton mill, Bowreah Mills, which was set up by a British merchant and went on to become a hub of factories - a rum distillery, foundry, cotton yarn factory, an oil mill and a paper mill, et al. Spearheaded by Dwarkanath Tagore, the industrialist grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore, the commercial complex was possibly the first of its kind in the country. Close to 200 years later, after much ebb and flow of history, the hub is set for a resurgence of sorts.
After the Trinamool's overwhelming majority in the West Bengal assembly elections last year, the SSC scam has given fresh ammunition to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India-Marxist. Ishita Ayan Dutt reports.
'My fear was put to rest with the belief that Sanjay sir had in me.' 'He told me, 'If you want to fly, just jump off the mountain with me and we'll do this together'.'
Nagarjuna wraps up his work on Brahmastra... Wife Amala promotes her new film... Riya Sen explores Goa...
'I don't think I ever wanted to work with anyone, no Khans, nobody, except for Mr Amitabh Bachchan.'
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