This Dusshera treat your loved ones to wonderful Indian treats flavoured with chocolate or strawberry.
'For our traditional membership base, it would be an access to disruptive ideas,' FICCI President Subhrakant Panda tells Asit Mishra/Business Standard.
Benchmark equity index Sensex and Nifty gave up early gains and ended lower on Monday as investor sentiment was hit due to unabated foreign fund outflows and losses in index heavyweights Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 168.21 points or 0.28 per cent to settle at 60,092.97 as 15 of its constituents dropped. The barometer opened higher and touched a high of 60,586.77 in morning session. Later in the day, it fell 297.35 points or 0.49 per cent to 59,963.83.
Britannia Industries, the maker of Tiger biscuits, said it will take "right and appropriate action as it always has" against the lawsuit filed by US-based Kraft Foods for alleged trademark and copyright violation of its Oreo cookie brand.
It may be a little early to cheer the recovery in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) space as a deceleration in discretionary demand, after the festival season, may offset fragile rural recovery, analysts have cautioned. "The overall demand environment for staples remains muted, while discretionary demand trends have seen some deceleration after the festival season. "We believe margins in staples have bottomed out, but we expect only a gradual uptick with the ongoing softening in raw material prices.
Around 6,967 tech employees lost their jobs in Bengaluru, the highest among Indian cities, partially because of its evolution in recent years as a start-up hub.
Production at factories, mines and utilities likely rose an annual 2.4 per cent in August, up from July's 0.5 per cent rise, according to the survey of 26 economists.
The alliance would announce a coordination committee, which could be of 11 members from principal opposition parties.
As controversy plagues foods again, brandification will bridge the trust deficit, critical for stakeholders.
In December 2014, it was (-)0.50 per cent.
'A lot of actors auditioned for Wagle Ki Duniya, but R K Laxman rejected them all.' 'He was the decision-maker, as the serial was based on his Common Man.' 'He wanted a natural, who looked like a common man.'
The cooking oil national industry body -- Solvent Extractors' Association (SEA) of India has suggested immediate initiation of government to government (G2G) dialogue with Indonesia on the proposed palm oil export ban from April 28 by them as it would have an adverse repercussions in India. Indonesia, which is the world's largest producer of palm oil and meets nearly 50 per cent of the total palm oil requirement in India annually, had announced to ban exports till further notice apparently to contain edible oil prices in their domestic market. "We have suggested our government initiate dialogue with Indonesian counterparts at the highest diplomatic level on the cooking oil export ban.
The UPA thinks that food security can be addressed by importing food. Land must be acquired for the industry to be a vehicle for higher growth. There can be nothing more dangerous than this flawed approach, says Devinder Sharma.
Importers protest as food safety regulator demands adherence to recent law on labelling, blocks entry at ports for packs with stickers.
Workers' expectations around the pay rises this year have skyrocketed in India, with 90 per cent of people interviewed are looking for a hike in salary, a report said on Monday. In India, 90 per cent of workers interviewed expect a pay rise this year and on average, close to 20 per cent of the employees surveyed are anticipating an increase of 4-6 per cent, followed by 19 per cent anticipating a 10-12 per cent hike, ADP Research Institute's - People at Work 2023: A Global Workforce View - report revealed. The report revealed that in India, 78 per cent of workers received a pay rise last year, and the hikes averaged 4-6 per cent.
A young girl from Manipur hopes the happy days of togetherness will return to her beloved state again.
Shivakumar has got the all-important Major and Medium Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development, including the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bangalore Development Authority, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited.
Saha has kept the home, health and family welfare and public works department with him while Ratan Lal Nath has been given the charge of power, agriculture and farmers' welfare, according to an official notification issued by Chief Secretary J K Sinha.
The government is likely to extend fiscal incentives for production of toys, bicycles and leather and footwear in the forthcoming budget as it looks to expand production linked incentive (PLI) scheme to cover more high-employment potential sectors, sources said. The government has already rolled out the scheme with an outlay of about Rs 2 lakh crore for as many as 14 sectors, including automobiles and auto components, white goods, pharma, textiles, food products, high efficiency solar PV modules, advance chemistry cell and speciality steel. The scheme aims to make domestic manufacturing globally competitive and create global champions in manufacturing, and it is yielding solid results, sources said.
India's processed food exports may jump by over 66 per cent to $25 billion by 2015, provided that an investment of $30 billion is pumped into the sector, an industry body study said.
Wholesale price-based inflation spiked to a record high of 15.08 per cent in April on rising prices across segments from food to commodities. The WPI-based inflation was 14.55 per cent in March and 10.74 per cent in April last year. "The high rate of inflation in April 2022 was primarily due to rise in prices of mineral oils, basic metals, crude petroleum & natural gas, food articles, non-food articles, food products and chemicals & chemical products etc. as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year," the commerce and industry ministry said in a statement.
Irrigation woes have contributed to the problem of stubble burning in the state, reports Sarthak Choudhury.
The government on Thursday admitted there were "pressure points" in the economy due to mounting food and petroleum subsidies, but said the growth would be "significant" this year due to good monsoon and industrial revival.
What came to the rescue of the IIP numbers in February were mining and electricity.
Temptation Foods, the Mumbai-based frozen foods exporter, is all set to revive talks with Marico Industries for buying the food brands Sil and Meal Maker, after receiving the approval of its shareholders to raise Rs 150 crore.
India and the US reviewed on Tuesday the Agriculture Knowledge Initiative, a joint effort of Prime Minster Manmohan Singh and US President George W Bush, with emphasis on the food processing sector.
'India is an equity market with a breadth and depth of companies to invest in.'
The central government has taken up a Rs 400 crore (Rs 4-billion) project for building 30 mega food parks in India along with a proper supply chain for each of them.
Demand for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) fell in April owing to lower stocking by kiranas, according to the data from Bizom. Kiranas stocked lower quantities in April as they resorted to heavy stocking in March. Sales in value terms were down 8.4 per cent in the month as against the same period last year while on a month-on-month basis, they declined 17 per cent.
Whatever may be their flaws and the adverse impact on industry or the Centre's finances, the food security and land acquisition Bills are likely to be seen by voters as people-friendly initiatives
A special court here on Thursday rejected Videocon founder Venugopal Dhoot's plea which claimed that his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the alleged loan fraud involving former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar was illegal. The CBI court also rejected applications of Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar for home food, beds, mattresses and chairs. The court directed jail authorities to provide them diet food in consultation with the medical officer.
'It was amazing to see the grasp he had over the law and the sharp mind that he possessed.'
Onion prices, however, continued to rule high with 79.78 per cent increase in September.
This tangled tale of good versus evil could have been far more intriguing, observes Mayur Sanap.
Key drivers of profitability for Zomato has not witnessed remarkable growth, the management believes the venture will turn profitable in the long term.
Allaying apprehensions of a food crisis in view of poor monsoon, minister of road transport and highways Kamal Nath said on Friday the country has enough foodgrain reserves to tackle even the worst monsoon situation.
As per the first quarter figures on industrial production released by Central Statistical Organisation on Friday, the electricity sector registered a growth of 8.3 per cent as against 5.3 per cent a year ago.
Critics have even suggested that India is doing this because it is not prepared to take on the requirements of TFA, with a relatively weak trade infrastructure.
The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy on Tuesday said industrial production growth is likely to decline in the second half of the current fiscal, while the first advanced estimate of kharif crop showed a 10 per cent drop in food production.\n\n\n\n
Opposition parties have not been given the chairmanship of any of the four key parliamentary panels including the committee on home affairs and information technology, which were with the Congress, in the latest rejig announced on Tuesday.
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