The lockdown that crippled the entire logistics, delivery and supply chain network to near zero, was enough to deal a body blow to India's fastest growing unicorn whose very business model saw a severe disruption, like several other firms and sectors.
Did top Indian business groups miss the e-commerce opportunity by focusing on replicating the Walmart model instead of following the Amazon model of online shopping?
Here's a look at the model auditions for Aamby Valley India Bridal Week, held October 12 in Mumbai.
Designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, who completed 20 years in the business, launched a new collection over the weekend.
The LFW plus size model auditions saw over 300 aspirants this year.
The attached assets include 15 commercial and residential properties belonging to the 'family members' of Mirchi. They include a hotel called Midwest Hotel Apartment, the ED said. They are valued at Rs 203.27 crore and have been provisionally attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the central probe agency said in a statement.
What can malls do to entice customers? Brand coach Ambi Parameswaran has a few suggestions.
Actors lead a busy life, and their work sometimes take them to interesting places in India and abroad.
The modus operandi for immunising the country's 1.35 billion population in stages has been thrashed out in more than one meeting among top government officials in the health ministry and the Prime Minister's Office.
Cricket fans, critics and some former players have pointed out that de Kock "deliberately misled" Zaman into believing the ball was at the non-strikers end and then ran him out.
The former Bollywood actress walked the ramp for Siddhartha Tytler. Hitesh Harisinghani offers his perspective from the photographer's pit.
During his lifetime and after, Ambani aroused extreme responses in others.
'Stumbling blocks teach a lot and should be taken as stepping stones.'
English Premier League soccer clubs on Wednesday voted unanimously to return to contact training, including tackling, as the English top flight moved a step closer to a resumption after the shutdown caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic. No matches have been played in the Premier League since March when the coronavirus pandemic shut down world sport.
'Credit expansion is probably the quickest way to get the economy going again.' 'Easy credit is like a shot of nitro in a race car: In timely, small, quick, doses it can give a tremendous boost but carried to extreme it can destroy the engine,' points out S Muralidharan, former managing director, BNP Paribas.
Its latest member is a Frenchman. Bernard Arnault's fortune is now estimated at $100.4 billion.
Having spent decades running a laundromat in Taiwan's coastal city of Taichung, Hsu Sho-Er, 84, and her husband, Chang Wan Ji, 83, are now proving a hit on Instagram after their grandson Reef Chang -- and stylist -- set up an account for them in June. Any items left at the laundromat for over a year are considered fair game.
Rajiv Suri's resignation is effective August 25, the company said in a stock exchange filing. Suri quit for personal reasons and would pursue a career outside India, it added.
He is 54, but looks far better than he did when he was a supermodel in his 20s and 30s. Cooler still is his vibe. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel catches up with Milind Soman, fitness icon and businessman.
Their creations have been seen on leading Hollywood celebrities for some time now, so it's hardly surprising that Falguni and Shane Peacock made quite an impression at their Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week debut!
Anjana Reddy explores the market for home-grown Indian celebrity fashion brands at affordable prices.
The grit and determination of these specially-abled artistes will fill you with positivity.
On July 1, 2021, Britain's Princess Diana would have turned 60 and two decades after her tragic death in a car accident near the end of summer 1997, she still holds an exalted place on the altar of the most admired people in the world, her status secure as a style icon -- as is her legacy of having forever changed the British monarchy.
India's pioneer lingerie designer Suman Nathwani presented her debut collection on Day Two of the fashion week.
We bring you interesting snapshots of people attending the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai.
UNICEF India has teamed up with social media influencers to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene.
Rajput's manager Samuel Miranda and cook Dipesh Sawant used to collect the contraband and make `joints' (marijuana cigarettes) for the deceased actor, a NCB officer claimed.
1997: Sukanya Verma offers a recap of its memorable imagery.
The wave of enthusiasm for digital technology had faded as we'd grown more and more worried about what smartphones and social media were doing to society and to us as individuals. Now that switchback ride between hopes for the technology and fear of it seemed to have taken us on another upward path, as the virus made us fall back in love with it. Read on for an intriguing excerpt from Rory Cellan-Jones's Always On: Hope And Fear In The Social Smartphone Era.
'The sari is a symbol of Indianism.' 'Once I was wearing a sari and walking in the middle of a market in Amsterdam and there was a musician playing a instrument.' 'When he saw me, he started playing an Indian song.' 'A sari has such strong cultural narrative.'
The magazine has released a list of the most memorable wedding dresses from across the worlds of fashion, media and show business.
According to a survey by community platform LocalCircles, early-stage start-ups, funding dependent start-ups and many small businesses will soon be fighting for survival as the spurt in coronavirus cases hits them hard.
The actor looked stunning in a silver outfit from Rajesh Pratap Singh.
From nude dresses to pompous outfits, these celebs made some eye-popping fashion statements.
Anusha Jain was 21 when she took over her father's business. In four years, she has clocked 1.5x growth for the company.
Bhanu Athaiya on the films she has designed for, how Gandhi happened, and what it means to be a woman in a man's world.
Other countries with a large number of cases including Brazil, Russia, Spain and the United States of America, all have more people heading to work.
Designer Runa Ray, whose edgy line inspired by an ancient discipline made it to the February New York Fashion Week, discussed the showing with Tista Sengupta/Rediff.com
Model Tamara Moss spells out the rules of fashion business in India.
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