After Pune, the swine flu scare is affecting footfalls and sales in malls and retail stores in Mumbai. Sales in these places have fallen by up to half in the past two days.
Shopping malls, multiplexes and top retailers in Pune are seeing as much as a 70 per cent drop in business owing to the swine flu outbreak in the city.
Several malls and retailers downed shutters in the commercial capital city of Mumbai. Kishore Biyani's hypermarket chain Big Bazaar closed two stores its stores in Mumbai Central and Parel, which are half-an-hour's drive from South Mumbai.
'... the government provides adequate cash and kind support for the poorest of the poor for survival... ...conditional cash and skilling support for the economically poor to raise their incomes to adequate levels... ...and make functional arrangements for providing unemployment allowance to the vulnerable poor during disasters like the present one.'
More than 53,500 people were now staying in various relief camps across the state.
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As many as 70 restaurants in Mumbai have shut shop in the past six months, owing to spiralling costs, high taxes and a downturn in the economy.
''I am not going to force anyone to watch movies. If they want to, they can come and watch.' 'I want to give them the choice that everyone has in the rest of the country.'
With the terror attacks targeting even the IT companies of the country, the sector on Thursday beefed up security in campuses in other major cities even as several of them downed shutters in the financial capital.The TCS House, main office of India's top software exporter, located close to Chhatarpati Shivaji Terminal and one of the targets of the terrorist attacks, remained closed.
A fire at a shopping mall selling garments left 11 persons dead and 18 injured at Sodepur in neighbouring North 24-Parganas district, close to Kolkata, on Friday
Parallel to this, the ruling Telugu Desam has been organising rallies across the state in solidarity with its MPs.
Unprecedented fall in sales has resulted in build-up of huge inventories, and dealers are pleading with car makers. . .
The Congress MLA and others were produced before a local court which granted them bail, the official said.
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Two days after the Supreme Court banned Jallikattu (bull fight), the residents of Alanganallur and Palamedu villages in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu observed a one-day fast on Sunday morning, pleading the apex court to vacate the ban. Over 500 villagers, including 100 women and children, began the fast near the old police atation at Alanganallur. The shopkeepers downed their shutters, for the second day, as a mark of protest against the ban.
The Valley, which was brought under a virtual curfew with communication networks snapped on August 5 after the government abrogated special status to Jammu and Kashmir, has seen little difference in the last seven weeks as public transport is still not available and schools waiting for students to collect assignments.
Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Retail on Tuesday resumed its retail rollout in Orissa amid protests by local traders. The company opened a new store at the Gopabandhu square in the morning, then pulled down shutters briefly as hundreds of traders attacked the showroom.
All major markets in the capital, including Connaught Place, Lajpat Nagar, Paharganj, Karol Bagh, Greater Kailash, Chandni Chowk, South Extension, Mayur Vihar, Khan Market and Kamala Market remained closed, traders claimed.
The ban, although described as temporary, is being seen as a knee-jerk reaction by the state government following the attacks on Reliance Fresh and Spencer's stores and has raised several questions over its farm policy.
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A large number of traders of Delhi went on a 24-hour strike on Friday as the Supreme Court-ordered sealing of illegal commercial establishments in residential areas continued in the city.
Massive crowds thronged liquor stores, more vehicles plied on roads and cab-hailing platforms resumed services as India entered the third phase of the lockdown on Monday with further easing of curbs except in containment zones in the shadow of the highest rate of recovery yet from coronavirus.
All shops, barring medicine stores and tea stalls, downed their shutters in Nandigram bazar, Sonachura, Satengabari and Mahespur localities while buses did not ply in the area, police said.
The bandh evoked near-total response in the Cauvery belt, particularly in the volatile districts of Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajnagar, but the overall situation remained calm.
The supply of buffalo meat has dried up due to ban on illegal slaughterhouses.
Top company sources at Alok Industries said the processing required a lot of water, which is not a constraint in Gujarat.
The blasts reportedly took place in the heart of the city.
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The Fancy Bazaar area is dominated by Hindi-speaking businessmen who have become a target of the banned outfit.
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'The situation is quite terrifying as you have no job creation and there will be loss of jobs.'
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