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Top Vini execs brought in after KKR deal walk out

Vini Cosmetics, the maker of Fogg deodorants and GlamUp creams backed by private equity firm KKR, has seen a flurry of top-level exits in the recent past, even as the company’s founder-chairman Darshan Patel remains unfazed.

HUL splits beauty, personal care business

Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) is splitting its beauty and personal care business into two, one dedicated to beauty and wellbeing (B&W) and the other to personal care (PC), as it looks to take on younger, mostly digital-focussed companies that are challenging the incumbents.

Electric 2-wheeler sales rise

Sales of electric two-wheelers at just over 91,000 units in November were up nearly 20% compared with the same month last year, and 22% compared with October, suggesting that demand for the vehicles is growing at a brisk pace again, after lower subsidies took the sheen out in the middle of the year.

Tesla's much-delayed Cybertruck rolled out

Cheapest version costs $60,990; Cyberbeast priced at around $100,000

RBI inks pact with BoE on bond clearing settlement

The Reserve Bank of India on Friday signed an agreement with the Bank of England (BoE) on exchange of information for settlement of bond trades through Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (CCIL).

COP28: Food security gets $2.5 bn

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed another $200 mn to respond to threats to food security

Manufacturing rises in Nov, input costs at 40-month low

Demand stays high despite price hikes; labour costs increase even as inflation cooled

Empty nesters discover the joy of slow travel

With kids grown up, couples are ticking off the bucket-list items that they had been postponing

'Whatever I think shows up in fiction'

In her new collection of short stories, 'Welcome To Paradise', Twinkle Khanna examines themes of mortality

Meet Cillian Murphy, deejay extraordinaire

Perhaps you are just as big a fan of Cillian Murphy as I am. The Irish actor is as highly talented as he is versatile. His recent performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan's biopic on the physicist who led the development of the atomic bomb during World War II is stunning.

Comic relief: The makers of 'The Archies' on their new film

Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti on adapting 'Archie' for India and the big screen, and why kids are a tough audience

THE ART OF TANTRIC BUDDHISM

A new book looks at Asia's Buddhist art traditions, especially that of tantric Buddhist painting and sculpture

Trends in 2024 THAT WILL RULE

Experts predict fashion and accessories trends for the forthcoming year, from playful layering to chunky jewellery

From Hanoi to Chennai, the crunch of banana stem

The inner core of trees like banana and palm is used to create nutrientrich dishes in many food cultures across the world

The party pantry of December

Welcome the month of celebrations by stocking up on premium wines, craft chocolates and award-winning cheeses

REMEMBERING CHANDRIKA MAGO

The senior Mint editor and head of the Lounge desk passed away on Wednesday. The Lounge team remembers our beloved colleague

Rudderless boats in a sea of misinformation

The new preoccupation about what is authentic is more about anxiety than skill. In a way, it's quite fitting that wordwise we have gone from gaslighting to authentic

Scott Pilgrim makes progress

Nearly every episode of Netflix's excellent animated series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off begins with an elaborate hair-colour montage: the show's heroine Ramona Flowers squeezes bleach out of a tube, applies bright colours to her duotone hair, and wipes the fogged-up mirror clean.

Hunar 2023, Paramparik Karigar's spectacular designer exhibition

Paramparik Karigar is hosting the third edition of its annual Designer Exhibition, Hunar, at the Taj Wellington Mews on December 8 and 9, 2023.

When the world is going to the pigs

Adam Biles' new novel pushes George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' a bit further to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same

Microsoft Joins OpenAI Board, Altman Officially Back As CEO

OpenAI said that Sam Altman was officially reinstated as chief executive officer and that it has a new initial board of directors, with Microsoft Corp.joining as a nonvoting observer.

Take this sports car for a joyride on an Indian road

The Ferrari 296 GTB is a plug-in hybrid with two electric motors. It offers a smooth, luxurious ride and clears road obstacles with ease

'I will give it to you in writing...': Save the written word's sanctity

India’ traditional strengths could combine with the written forms to effect a paradigm shift in this digital age of post-truth’

Good cinema can get us talking greed and grime

Michael Douglas, who famously played an advocate of greed, won the Satyajit Ray Award at IFFI. Incongruent? That's cinema doing what it must: stirring up emotions and thought

Dental treatments are costly. Here is how to finance them

Why do people often put off their regular visit to the dentist? That, health experts say, is because they give less importance to oral care and dental hygiene until it is too late. While regular visits to the dentists are as critical as regular body checks, most people wait till the toothache gets unbearable. By then though, the cost of treatment can soar. For instance, a root canal can cost several thousands of rupees and dental implants even more.

THE RETURN OF THE BOLLYWOOD POTBOILER

Hindi filmmakers have woken up to the need to cater to the lowest common denominator in the audience

Henry Kissinger, US diplomat and Nobel winner, dies at 100

Kissinger had a hand in many epoch-changing global events of the 1970s while he was US secretary of state

PVR redefines luxury with 2nd Maison

Multiplex chain PVR Inox is fast building up its premium and luxury cinema formats, which already comprise 13.8% of its overall portfolio. The company launched its second Maison cinema in Mumbai on Thursday, at the Jio World Plaza. The first Maison is housed at Jio World Drive.

Delhi HC to set the right note on Rahman's song

Both Shiva Stuti Veera Raja Veera are based on same raga, Say Composers

'500,000 jobs via PLI for cellular phone cos'

India’s production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for mobile phone manufacturing had generated 500,000 jobs, telecom and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Thursday, at the inauguration of the Padget Electronics’ new manufacturing plant which will make 25 million phones a year.