Recent Views 16 MUMBAI: Small towns are fueling the growth of Flipkart’s quick commerce business Minutes. Cities such as Siliguri, Ambala, Barabanki, Bhagalpur and Durgapur are seeing huge consumer adoption with the overall customer base growing nearly 25 times year-on-year across such regions, the Walmart-owned company said.The broader Minutes business has expanded four times y-o-y…
Recent Views 16 NEW DELHI/PATNA: A Delhi court Thursday framed charges against RJD chief Lalu Prasad, wife Rabri Devi, their son, Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, and six others in a money laundering case linked to the alleged IRCTC hotel scam, report Koushiki Saha & Jai Narain Pandey. The case dates to Lalu’s tenure as railway minister…
Recent Views 17 NEW DELHI: Apple could bring more buyers to foldables without winning most of them. Foldable phones have flexible screens that let them open into larger displays or fold into more compact devices. The Cupertino-based company’s entry with the iPhone Duo is expected to draw attention to a smartphone category that remains small…
Recent Views 20 MUMBAI: Discounting volatility in the stock market, investors poured in money through the mutual fund route that led to a record Rs 32,297 crore in gross monthly inflows through the systematic investment plan (SIP) route in Aug. This, combined with strong buying across most equity mutual fund categories, lifted the total assets…
Recent Views 14 ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, starring Tom Holland in the lead, is on the verge of rewriting the domestic (American) box-office record.As per the latest reports on Global box office, the film is now just around USD 10 million away from overtaking ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ as the highest-grossing film of all…
Recent Views 18 NEW DELHI: Emerging sectors, such as space, data centers, solar energy, semiconductors and electronics are set to drive the next phase of industrial revolution in India as the large domestic opportunity is driving private participation.Supportive govt policies, such as tax holidays for establishing data centres, large incentive schemes for boosting semiconductor production,…
Recent Views 16 MUMBAI: Sebi chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Thursday said that the newly introduced Closing Auction Session (CAS) will stay but the regulator is studying if the mechanism to arrive at derivatives settlement prices could be changed. Pandey also said that MSCI, one of the largest index service providers in the world, has…
Recent Views 13 MUMBAI: Bahrain’s high civil court rejected all seven legal proceedings filed against HDFC Bank by investors over Credit Suisse Additional Tier 1 (CS AT1) bonds, with the latest two cases dismissed on Sept 9, the bank said on Thursday. Five similar cases were rejected by the court between July and Aug.AT1 bonds…
Recent Views 13 NEW DELHI: Around Rs 2.5 lakh crore has been spent in the disaster management sector over the last 11 years, increasing allocations for national and state disaster response funds manifold, home minister Amit Shah said while chairing the third meeting of the governing body of National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Thursday.Shah…
Recent Views 15 Nepal’s forensic laboratories are in a race against time 15 days after the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli flood, with thousands of DNA samples arriving at facilities accustomed to processing fewer than 900 tests in an entire year. As visual identification becomesdifficult because of decomposition and mutilation, DNA is now the main hope of putting…
