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India Inc gears up to go back to office The jury is still out on the future of office real estate. A hybrid working model doesn’t sound very encouraging for office developers. 10 min read Companies are slowly and tentatively shifting from WFH to WFO. What are the plans and pain points? There’s apprehension about using public transport. Refurbishing office ventilation systems is a challenge. Whether offices would go back to 100% strength is an open question Share Via Read Full Story NEW DELH...

A fully functional WTO would suit our interests Premium Share Via Read Full Story In 2012, a retired professor named Kamene Okonjo got kidnapped in Nigeria. As ransom, the abductors wanted her daughter Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to resign as their country’s finance minister for having cracked down on a fuel-subsidy scam. She secured her mother’s release alright, but did not back down. She will need that tenacity. This week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) chose Okonjo-Iweala as its director-gen...

SUV sales have been witnessing a gradual uptick in the market share. The segment registered a 25% market share in 2019. In 2020, the share has increased to 29%. The total market share in just the first month of 2021 has reached 33%

Opinion I Being a single parent is not a frailty A still from the film ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’, in which Will Smith plays a single fatherPremium Shwetambara Sabharwal Single parents have the toughest job in the world. They not only single-handedly wrestle with the crazy schedules, school and playdate mandates, but also face stigmas associated with being a solo parent. Share Via Read Full Story Being a parent is challenging to say in the least. Whether you see it from the perspective of a...

Farmers’ stir makes big political splash, but is the movement over? Farmers raise slogans during their ongoing agitation against Centres farm laws at Singhu border in New Delhi. (PTI) Share Via Read Full Story The agitation of farmers at the three borders of Delhi is entering its fourth month. A month has passed since their unsuccessful dialogue with the government. How long will this deadlock last? Is this why the farmers wanted to observe ‘Bharat Bandh’ and ‘Rail Roko Andolan’ to p...

CBI examines Abhishek Banerjees sister-in-law in coal theft case West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjees nephew and Trinamool Congress party leader Abhishek Banerjee. (HT_PRINT)Premium . Updated: 22 Feb 2021, 04:47 PM IST PTI Two woman officers of the CBI examined Gambhir for nearly three hours at her residence off Eastern Metropolitan Bypass after a notice was served to her on Sunday Abhishek Banerjees, the Trinamool Congresss Diamond Harbour MP, is the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata B...

Maharashtra reported 6,971 new COVID-19 cases and 35 deaths in the last 24 hours.

India offers $100 mn line of credit to Mauritius to procure defense assets Premium (ANI Photo ) . Updated: 22 Feb 2021, 04:51 PM IST PTI Two countries signed a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Partnership Agreement following talks between S Jaishankar and Mauritius Prime Minister The two sides also exchanged letters on provision of Dornier aircraft and Dhruv helicopter by India to step up Mauritius’ maritime monitoring capabilities Share Via Read Full Story India on Monday offered a USD 1...

New taxation provisions will definitely affect the popularity of Ulips New taxation provisions will definitely affect the popularity of UlipsPremium Share Via Read Full Story This year’s Union budget has proposed to remove the exemption on new unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) with a high premium. The objective is to remove the tax arbitrage that existed, where income from an equity oriented mutual fund was taxable, and income from a Ulip where the return was entirely tax-free. How do the n...

Lenders to tie up for digital banking infra Photo: Mint Public sector banks look to build and share digital infrastructure Apart from sharing the same software, banks are likely to share the hardware that goes into the setting up of the back office, servers Share Via Read Full Story MUMBAI : Public sector banks (PSBs) are exploring the idea of setting up a company to build and share digital infrastructure in response to the rapid digital adoption in the banking sector because of the pandemic, t...