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Representative image NEW DELHI: After receiving a debilitating shock treatment at the hands of Covid, several industries in India across retail, FMCG and automobile are set to get back on their feet in 2021. Sectors like entertainment, travel and retail are expected to receive a boost once public confidence in vaccines kick in. Most retailers said they have recovered 70-80% of pre-Covid annual sales on the back of a bullish festive season. “A lot, however, will depend on further lockdowns d...

The Wistron plant in Karnataka will be operational again in 15-20 days, State Labour Minister A S Hebbar told Business Standard on Wednesday. “There is no clarity on whether the lapses in payments happened from the contractors’ side or the company’s side. Investigation is on and will be concluded soon,” said Hebbar. Taking note of the violence the Centre on Wednesday asked the state government to complete an inquiry into the incident at the earliest. “The secretary of Departmen...

Breaking down Reliance vs Amazon: The epic battle for Indian e-commerce bragging rights Sandeep Soni Jeff Bezos sprawling e-commerce empire in India is staring at its moment of truth, again. Earlier it was back in 2013 when Amazon entered the very nascent and almost untapped e-commerce market characterised by an underdeveloped infrastructure with only 16 per cent population connected to the internet, and cash being the undisputed king. The then e-commerce market had Flipkart and...

The Battle for Indian Retail How Mukesh Ambani, Amazons Jeff Bezos and Walmarts Doug McMillon are fighting to get a bigger slice of Indias $850 billion retail market Illustration by Raj Verma Ostensibly, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries, and the worlds richest man, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, are engaged in a court battle over ownership of the Rs 26,000 crore debt-laden Future Group. But at the core of the fight is the struggle for supremacy in the $850 billion (Rs 62.8 lakh crore) I...

Media and entertainment are important tools to sensitise public on gender-based violence India Updated: Thursday, December 10, 2020, 17:05 [IST] Chennai, Dec 10: The U.S. Consulate General in Chennai, in association with the United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), and digital news platform The News Minute hosted a virtual panel discussion titled "Reel and Real: The Influence of Media and Entertainment on Gender-Based Violence" on Wednesday. The panel discussed the important role of ...