It hopes to leverage the growing number of mobile transactions
@015 may be a good year for FMCG firms.
Be cautious when purchasing from little-known Web sites.
Every competitor is eyeing the top slot that Flipkart holds.
Some taxi and cab unions, including those associated with app-based aggregators, have decided to join the strike called by farmers organisations demanding repeal of three new farm sector laws.
The UK-based retailer can add to the best practices it already brings to Tata's retail business.
The reason for Trent's success is rooted in its slow and steady approach to expansion. Unlike others, Trent, led by Noel Tata, ensured that each store was profitable before it went on to the next, says Raghavendra Kamath.
The Whopper creater has most of its burgers priced at par with McDonald's.
The child, whose parents work as labourers in a factory, was beaten and brutalised with a sharp object. She is critical and on oxygen support, said a senior doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where she is admitted.
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Traders were up in arms, fearing huge job loss if Walmart was to enter.
Ma and the other co-founders had finalised the name "Alibaba" after much research on its acceptability.
Have committed themselves to investing Rs 1,85,000 crore since last year.
Estimates by retail consultancy Technopak suggest that direct subsidy to consumers because of e-commerce this year would be over Rs 12,000 crore.
What explains Vijay Shekhar Sharma's optimism when other players have started to tread cautiously is Paytm's huge customer base: It has 120 million users and counting, says Nivedita Mookerji.
Taking control of manufacturing will help boost profits for the food business, but it could leave the group saddled with huge debt.
Global retail behemoths seem to have read the signals right.
Since allowing FDI in multi-brand retail has been left to the states, Indian companies may not benefit as foreign investors are wary of the politics.
Maharashtra CM said a high-level committee will probe the circumstances under which the 40-year-old overbridge collapsed.
The S&P BSE Sensex has rallied about 28 per cent in 2014, after formation of a stable government at the Centre.
Is Being Human, the actor's apparel brand, an extension of his persona or is it a move to correct his bad-boy image?
Shopkeepers are losing buyers in droves to e-tailers for everything from fashion to smartphones, and are struggling to find solutions.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden speech from Red Fort last Independence Day outlined some grand programmes. Shehzad Poonawalla does a quick check on the progress made.
It is actually quite remarkable that EPW has survived for so long. "I see it as a journal of dissent," says Rammanohar Reddy and is thankful to the EPW community for keeping it relevant.
Incidents of arson, firing and vandalism were reported from Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Punjab as protesters agitated against the dilution of the SC/ST Act.
The second part of journalist Rajdeep Sardesai's interview to Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com.
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