Besides Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, Walmart and Amazon are selling higher than Kishore Biyani's Future Group, Avenue Supermarts (D-Mart), Tata Group, and Aditya Birla Group.
The top five IT services companies Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, HCL Technologies, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra spent 75% less than last year on commutes to work, domestic travel, and international travel.
Jobs postings in India with "5G" in their titles doubled during January-March this year. The skills that are highest in demand include IP networking, software, firmware, and automation.
A new change in regulation has resurfaced old wounds about vaccine prices in India.
At Rs1,200 ($16.42) a dose, Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin, a Covid-19 vaccine fully developed and manufactured in India, is the most pricey option available at private hospitals in India. The vaccine is not only more expensive than the other locally manufactured option, Covishield, but costs more than even the imported Sputnik V.
Covaxin’s pricing is “nothing but governmental sanction for Bharat Biotech to make super profits,” says Malini Aisola, co-convener of the All India Drug Action Network (AIDAN), an independent collective of healthcare professionals and nonprofits. “These unethically inflated prices have no correlation to its cost of production,” she says.