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ITC hotel spinoff at 10:1 ratio, IPO in 15 months

ITC shareholders will hold a 60% direct stake in the new hotel venture

The population puzzle: what Indians feel

With one foot in tradition and the other in modernity, young Indians are leading several demographic shifts that will define the next phase of change in the world’s most populous country, finds the latest round of the YouGov-Mint-CPR survey.

Covid failed to blunt investments in IPR

India’s overall investment in fixed assets, meanwhile, saw a decline, indicating a heightened focus on innovation within boardrooms

Muthoot missing the Midas touch

Assets under management (AUM) of its mainstay gold loan business clocked nearly 18% year-on-year growth and 7% sequentially to ₹66,039 crore in the June quarter (Q1FY24).

Xpressbees acquires logistics co Trackon to serve small firms

BusyBees Logistics Solutions Pvt. Ltd, which runs logistics services startup Xpressbees, said on Monday it has acquired logistics company Trackon Couriers Pvt Ltd. Financial details of the deal weren't disclosed.

Plan for India-Sri Lanka power line project in advanced stages

It will help crisis-hit Sri Lanka improve its energy security after the country saw widespread power shortages in 2022.

Ready for carbon tax? Govt wants steel firms to find out

The development comes at a time when India is exploring tariff and non-tariff measures to counter EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that proposes to tax ‘embedded carbon’ in imports of steel, aluminium, cement, hydrogen, electricity and fertilizers from 1 Jan 2026.

Laid-off startup CXOS struggle in job market

Xpheno estimates that in the last 18 months, about 40-50 CXOs have been laid off across startups

Nirma sole suitor for Glenmark Life

The bid came in late last week after the company extended the deadline a second time

Adani probe: Sebi seeks 15 more days

Sebi said the extension would allow it to submit the final status report on 24 issues it has investigated in connection with the Hindenburg report

Retail inflation roars to 7.44% as food costs bite

Food inflation quickens to 11.51%, the highest level since October 2020

Privacy Law: Under-18s May Be Defined As Minors In Gaming

The government may define individuals below 18 years as underage for the online gaming sector for processing of personal data, while the definition of underage might be revised in the case of edtech and healthcare sectors under the digital personal data protection law, a senior official aware of the matter said

The Big Jobs Debate: Who's At Risk From GenAI?

Previous tech waves impacted the blue-collar worker. Now, the white-collar employee's future is more threatened

How To Govern The AI Industry Must Be Accorded High Priority

Our discussion must leap from vague anxiety to the details of how best to harness this technology

Gadar 2 Gives Single-Screen Cinemas A Much-Needed Boost

Gadar 2, a sequel to the 2001 hit, has finally brought some cheer to pandemic-hit small, singlescreen cinemas in the Hindi-speaking belt with audiences returning in droves

China's Economic Slump May Yet Wash Up On Foreign Shores

Gloom from the worlds second largest economy could affect us all

The office of the future requires just one rule

Treat every individual like an adult-that's what it takes for all the generations in the workplace to work together effectively

Know the costs associated with pregnancy and childbirth in India

Expectant parents need to weigh several variables, including pregnancy complications and hospitalization costs

More low-priced tomatoes sold in Delhi

The government, via the National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India (NCCF), sold 36.5 tonnes of tomatoes on Saturday in Delhi alone under a special sale programme

Maui loses at least 93 lives in deadliest wildfire of century

Firefighters continued to work to extinguish flare-ups and contain fires in Lahaina and two other places

Nearly 150,000 merchants are on ONDC today: CEO

The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) now has nearly 150,000 merchants on its platform, the head of the government-backed non-profit e-commerce protocol said, underlining its widespread adoption across the country

Air India Express rebranding may be a mix of old and new

It will be launched in October when the airline gets its first new Boeing 737 Max aircraft

Tilaknagar looks to invest in brand building

Liquor company Tilaknagar Industries will step up investments in its brandy and gin lines during this financial year now that the firm has prepaid its restructured debt, freeing up additional cash for brand building

'Finfluencers should not mislead public'

India's markets regulator is faced with a Catch-22 situation as it rachets up efforts to increase the country's financial awareness

Venture funding up 17% last week; deal volume picks up too

Private equity and venture capital funding rose last week from the preceding week buoyed by a big-ticket transaction

'Will deploy over $1 bn in India over five years'

Ethos Asset Management, a California-based private investment firm that offers long-term loans to projects, recently said it will enter the Indian market with plans to deploy more than $1 billion in the country over the next five years

WFP taps India for 200,00 tonnes of rice as global hunger worsens

The World Food Programme has sought 200,000 tonnes of rice for its humanitarian operations from India, the largest exporter of the commodity, amid what it called \"catastrophic levels of global food insecurity triggered by the covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, two people aware of the development said

Positive signals from Aus FTA utilization

Indian exports to Australia slipped over 30% in the five months after a partial free trade deal came into effect in January, but the utilization rate of country-of-origin certificates an indicator of how much the deal is benefiting exporters-has reached 90%, an official aware of the development said

India plans own certification for digital public infra, goods

Talks under way with multilateral forums like UN, G20 to collaborate on rating mechanism

Samsung to get up to ₹600 cr as phone manufacturing PLI

The Union government is likely to disburse up to ₹600 crore to South T Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd for the first year under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for mobile phone manufacturing, three people aware of the development said