The festival season has already begun in the west and south of India with Ganesh Chaturthi and Onam, respectively, and consumer companies are witnessing a pick-up in sales compared to pre-Covid levels. Retailers, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) and consumer durables companies expect their sales to grow in double digits this festival season compared to pre-pandemic times, as there are no curbs on movement now. Adani Wilmar expects sales volume to be higher by 15-20 per cent as rural India has largely witnessed good monsoon rains, and employment has picked up in urban areas.
The television business today contributes 7 per cent to Micromax's revenue and it posted a 70 per cent growth last year.
The officials said her statement was also recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The ED had recently conducted raids against her and her husband in connection with a Rs 8,000 crore money laundering case.
Early detection will bring down the mortality rate, the minister said, adding that the government plans to increase institutional quarantine facilities.
A roundup of the Vijay Hazare Trophy one-day matches played on Tuesday.
A round-up of Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Wednesday.
Lalu's daughter was grilled by the ED on Tuesday for about eight hours.
A glimpse of Neha Agarwal's Lakme Fashion Week collection Mithila in Soho.
Roopam Asthana, CEO and whole time director, Liberty General Insurance, answers readers health insurance queries.
Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
The proposed company, Yu Televentures, will import handsets from China and sell in the Indian market.
The key demand drivers -- such as low home loan rates and income tax sops, particularly for affordable housing -- that supported the recovery in H2 FY2021, remain in place and will spur recovery again, feel experts.
For MP, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya and Anubhav Agarwal also took two wickets apiece. MP got seven points from the win. The outright-winning team gets six points while a victory of an innings or 10-wickets fetches seven points.
Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Porsche and Lamborghini are some marquee badges that have introduced track cars to excite hard-core customers who want to push their cars to the limit, says Pavan Lall.
Several promoters of suspended companies have floated new entities or taken board seats in other listed companies, which are functional, trading
Senior bureaucrats Avinash Joshi and Niraj Verma are among the 10 candidates who are in the race to become chairman and managing director of India's largest oil and gas producer, ONGC. Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) director-finance Pomila Jaspal and ONGC director for technology and field services Om Prakash Singh are the other prominent names in fray for the top job, according to a candidate shortlist by the Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB). PESB - the government headhunter - will hold interviews to select the new head of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) this week. Both the bureaucrats are from the 1994 batch of IAS officers belonging to the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
A summary of all the action from Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Wednesday.
Modi had promised during his election campaign that a decision on loan waiver would be taken at the first cabinet meeting of the BJP government in the state.
30 Indian designers have come together for Duniya, a unique t-shirt project.
P Chidambaram and Rajeev Shukla of the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party's Sumitra Valmiki and Kavita Patidar, former Congress leader Kapil Sibal, Rashtriya Janata Dal's Misa Bharti and Jayant Chaudhary of the Rashtriya Lok Dal were among the 41 winners declared elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha.
Government headhunter PESB on Friday did not find anyone suitable from nine candidates, including two serving IAS officers, to head India's largest oil and gas producer, ONGC. The Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) interviewed 9 out of the 10 candidates who had applied for the post of chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). "Keeping in view the strategic importance and vision for the company and its future, the Board did not recommend any candidate and decided to constitute a Search Committee," PESB said in a notice after interviews. Those interviewed included senior bureaucrats Avinash Joshi and Niraj Verma.
A teenager hailing from Jharkhand was arrested for allegedly posing as a Pakistani national and sending a death threat through an email to industrialist Anil Ambani. 17-year-old Rajesh Kumar Agarwal, a student from Dhanbad district of Jharkhand, was arrested from his home town and was being brought to Mumbai, Additional Police Commissioner (Crime) Deven Bharti said.
Following the money and freezing anything unaccounted is the only way to set an example for others, suggests Debashis Basu.
'We are not organising any large celebrations on New Year's Eve to avoid last-minute changes in guidelines.'
A round-up of Day 3 of the Ranji Trophy matches played on Saturday.
Mithun became the first bowler in the domestic circuit to claim hat-trick in all the formats.
Fresh from his exploits in Mumbai's maiden Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 triumph, Kotian got down to business after his pace colleagues Tushar Desphande (2/23) and Mohit Avasthi (1/29) handed Bengal early blows.
Abhishek Sharma, lead singer of the Delhi-based indie-rock band, AaGROH, and film-maker Swati Vishnoi got together virtually to create a video inspired by the lockdown.
Live commerce, quick commerce, group buying, WhatsApp commerce, dukaantech have made their mark.
'For all of us at Amazon, it is 'Bharat first'.' 'We are keeping the Indian customer at the centre of what we are doing.'
>With 40 out of 70 IPL 2022 games completed, the crucial playoff spots are slowly starting to take shape. Shailesh Karkera finds out how teams may fare in the crucial second half of IPL 2022.
YU will be run as a separate business, not as an extension, says Rahul Sharma.
Last season, Punjab finished 6th, narrowly missing on the playoffs.
After a first wicket partnership of 60 between Vivek and Shreevats Goswami (27, 28 balls, 3 fours), the home team faltered as none of the other batsmen got going.
If the precautions are not taken and guidelines are not followed properly, there can be chances of spike in cases, the government said.
The intensity of the impact increased as many cars parked along the wall inside the society too fell on the shanties, officials said.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list IPL 2021's 50 Most Valuable Players.
'We have the technical expertise, and international collaborations. We also have robust real-time data. We are a university of pandemic management. If the ministry neglects the role of NCDC, it is the loss of the country'
"Zero is an unlikely figure. The virus is mutating and it is difficult to predict it's future behaviour,
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