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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 due to the new strain of the virus,” said Rajat Wahi, partner at Deloitte India. The auto sector, ...

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 Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade spoke to senior officers of the Karnataka government,...

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 Snapdeal arguably the only and top e-commerce players. Amazon was able to quickly adapt itself to ...

The Battle for Indian Retail How Mukesh Ambani, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Walmart's Doug McMillon are fighting to get a bigger slice of India's $850 billion retail market Illustration by Raj Verma Ostensibly, Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries, and the world's 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) Indian retail industry. Having been pushed into a corner by Alibaba, not only in China but also 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 media and entertainment to bring awareness and sensitize the public on gender-based violence that im...