In an open letter, the Confederation of All India Traders has appealed to Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Virat Kohli and others to stop endorsing Chinese products. It has also invited Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty, Madhuri Dixit, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar and others to join the campaign to boycott Chinese products under its flagship national movement 'Bharatiya Saaman-Hamara Abhiman'.
'I feel grateful that people are at home and are looking for something to watch.'
'I would love to be a part of Bollywood. Sadly, only glamorous roles have been offered to me until now, where I have nothing to do, just be a glam-doll.'
The GST rate for the sector has not yet been finalised by the government.
There was, however, no common ground between the government and the traders delegation as Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma made it clear to them that there was no question of rollback of the decision to open the multi-brand retail to foreign investment.
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Pollution levels spiked to severe levels in Delhi with thick haze blanketing the city on Tuesday, reducing visibility drastically and affecting flights and trains, prompting Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to describe the national capital as a "gas chamber".
Khandelwal also said the Advani's controversial Pakistan visit should be discussed.
Fever may be a thriller but it does not have any edge-of-the-seat moments, feels Tista Sengupta.
As macroeconomic numbers continue to disappoint, reaching pre-Covid level is unlikely in FY21.
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The development comes after a recent notification from the Union home ministry, which has permitted companies to resume manufacturing operations and reopening of shops in red, green and orange zones with certain riders.
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Jewelers also want import duty on gold to be reduced from the current 10 per cent to at least 5 per cent.
Mobility company Ola's chief financial officer Swayam Saurabh and chief operating officer Gaurav Porwal are leaving the company. These developments come at a time when the SoftBank-backed company's core ride-hailing unit is planning to go public and for which it raised $500 million from Warburg Pincus and Temasek in July this year. These investment firms had partnered with the company founder Bhavish Aggarwal for this round.
In comparison to Nadella, Apple CEO Tim Cook got a pay of $ 15.7 million in 2018 with $ 3 million in salary. Google CEO Sundar Pichai received $ 1.9 million in overall compensation.
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'Farmers will block rail tracks in various places. Markets and transport services will be closed during 'Bharat Bandh'
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella loves cricket like most Indians. But ask him to choose between Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, he is stumped. During a fireside chat, Microsoft India president Anant Maheshwari asked Nadella to choose between Kohli and Tendulkar.
Traders' body CAIT on Wednesday wrote to Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani and 50 other captains of India Inc, including Ratan Tata, Azim Premji, Gautam Adani, Ajay Piramal, Anand Mahindra and Sunil Bharti Mittal seeking their support in its campaign to boycott Chinese goods. The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) also urged Kumar Mangalam Birla, Vikram Kirloskar, Rahul Bajaj, Shiv Nadar, Pallonji Mistry, Uday Kotak, Nusli Wadia, Shashi Ruia, Madhukar Parekh, Harsh Mariwala, Satish Reddy and Pankaj Patel, among other prominent industrialists, to join its 'Bhartiya Samaan-Humaara Abhimaan' campaign.
The police claimed that Payal Tadvi's body had a few injury marks which needed to be probed further, for which the post-mortem report was awaited.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi met Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his deputy Sachin Pilot separately.
The Delhi Hotels and Restaurant Owners Association, which has more than 3,000 budget hotels and restaurants as members in the national capital, has written to the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) informing about the decision and the grouping's full support to CAIT's boycott Chinese goods campaign.
Public sector lender Bank of Baroda on Thursday said it was targeting to increase business by almost 50 per cent to Rs 300,000 crore (Rs 3000 billion) by 2010, while also expanding international operations and acquiring banks overseas.
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The company said this was 'important' to reinforce the 'complete disassociation' from its erstwhile promoters -- Malvinder and Shivinder Singh.
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Anil Khandelwal, Chairman of Bank of Baroda, expects a 25% credit growth in FY07. He says that BoB did not bid for UWB due to their existing presence in Maharashtra. He adds that the UWB branches will give IDBI good reach and size.
The recommendation, if implemented, is likely to face opposition from the government's key support base among Hindu traders and businesspersons.
Early GST rollout to help create more jobs, boost output, says IMF.
According to sources, all private offices will work from home and only government offices and essential services will be open.
Sellers, especially the smaller ones, are planning to go to court as well as move CCI as they fear that Walmart could bring multiple private labels in India and flood the e-commerce platform with its own products.
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Indian tourists are increasingly settling for other destinations such as Southeast Asian countries, Australia, and New Zealand.
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