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New Delhi: With an epic battle of billionaires for supremacy in one of the world’s most prolific markets and a pandemic-propelled surge in online shopping in the background, India’s nearly trillion-dollar retail market is hoping to touch 85 per cent of the pre-COVID business in the first half of the new year. In a year when the COVID-19 carnage ripped apart the retail business, circa 2020 will best go down for the unravelling of the war between Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man, and richest Indian Mukesh Ambani for pre-eminence in the booming market that is estimated to reach USD 1...

From brink to recovery, India's retail sector pins hope on 2021 With lockdowns heavily restricting physical store sales and consumers flocking to online mode of shopping, 2020 saw a dramatic shift in consumption behaviour and adoption of the digital medium PTI | December 29, 2020 | Updated 16:01 IST Even as COVID-19 kept retailers on their toes in 2020, some of them were busy making deals With an epic battle of billionaires for supremacy in one of the world's most prolific markets and a pandemic-propelled surge in online shopping in the background, India's nearly trillion-dollar retail marke...

We have frequently printed the word democracy . Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken’d, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. —Walt Whitman   I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it and stick your head out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this...

MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ Former Wife, Donates another $4.2 Billion to 384 Charitable Organizations By Pablo Luna   /   Friday, 18 Dec 2020 06:56PM Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’former wife, MacKenzie Scott, has donated another $4.2 billion to 384 charity organizations in the United States this year. The 18th wealthiest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, donated $1.7 billion to 166 organizations in July. With a net worth of $60.9 billion, Scott said she wants to speed up her philanthropic efforts to help people most affected by...

by CNN — December 16, 2020 . MacKenzie Scott announced on Tuesday her second major charitable contribution of the year, giving away nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations as part of a plan to donate a majority of her fortune. The announcement comes just four months after Scott donated $1.7 billion to 116 organizations, including four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), in July. The latest round of philanthropic gifts total more than $4.16 billion donated by Scott to organizations nationwide in the past four months. “The pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of...