Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore spoke with vegetable vendors, fruit sellers, those selling clothes in shops and streets, and a retired school teacher.
It is important to preserve copies of benefit illustration and product features.
Designers Shraddha Nigam and Mayank Anand tell us why they're committed to the cause of empowering Indian weavers through their label.
Nirma detergent brand has shed its affordable tag for a more premium positioning against Surf, as rival Ghadi consolidates its position as a mass-market player.
Docomo has now moved the London Court of Arbitration.
As Chinese gadget-maker Xiaomi, the world's third largest smartphone seller after Apple and Samsung, turns five today, it will seek to intensify its India push. But there are miles to go before it can claim true success in India, as a harrowing experience of one of its smartphone users suggests.
It was a roller-coaster week for the markets, amid talk of a fiscal stimulus by the government. Saurabh Mukherjea, chief executive officer, and Prashant Mittal, strategist, at Ambit Capital tell Puneet Wadhwa the recent flows into equity mutual funds are largely speculative in nature and pose a risk of reversal.
The author finds out if India's love affair with Old Monk has ended
Consumer durables and electronics companies are putting the final touches to their festive period plans.
Paytm is just embarking on building a TaoBao like entity in India, it may want to address a challenge that the latter faced a few years after its launch.
It has built confidence in the possibility of change; now reality has to catch up with the image and the expectation, says T N Ninan.
The rupee largely shrugged off the high volatility in stocks and rebounded sharply towards the fag-end trade following bout of dollar selling by exporters
LG, Panasonic: Making in and for India LG and Panasonic are looking to revive their fortunes in India by building local insights into their new products.
With the release of Moto G4 Plus, the bar has only been raised in the sub-Rs 15k segment. The ZUK Z1 still has a decent chance though, says Himanhsu Juneja based on its camera performance and battery back up strength.
Online shopping is the new buzzword amongst masses.
Think organic food, affordable homes, artificial intelligence, suggests Prof Manmeet Barve.
Asia's oldest and largest cattle fair may soon lose its star attraction.
Piyush Goyal has begun his term as railway minister with characteristic energy, but not all his new initiatives are being praised
Mittal would travel in trucks with his consignments.
The Nifty and Bank Nifty ended at record closing high of 7,913 and 15,865 respectively.
On the investor side, we realised most of the funds have foreign capital, thus closing down the opportunity to the Indian investor.
Indians must remember that Pakistanis hate losing to India, at war or in cricket, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
'By not letting bankrupt banks fail, we have discouraged ordinary folk from taking precautions while choosing their bank or at least when they hear bad news about their bank,'says S Muralidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
A faster processor and dual-lens camera make it a winner, says Abhik Sen.
How has Raj Thackeray, who is as much a businessman as politician, been able to pull it off, when most Opposition politicians live in fear of IT and ED and CBI, asks Krishna Prasad after attending a Raj rally in Nashik.
