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India's new ambassador to China faces Himalayan challenge to ease ties

In Beijing, Rawat replaces Vikram Misri who had a three-year stint and possibly not a single day without challenges

IGX awaits regulatory reforms to meet mandate of expanding fuel access

The Indian Gas Exchange, which opened for business last year, is waiting for regulatory reforms to achieve its mandate of expanding access to the fuel

2021 saw greater collaboration among pharma, govt, academia: Sudarshan Jain

'Diversified supply chain is a fundamental need', said Jain

Can biz family trusts ensure smooth succession? Answer lies with Tolstoy

As business families grow larger with the addition of sons and daughters and sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, they drift away and live in their own separate houses

Why Blue Circle is not like professional networking platform LinkedIn

Though a great product, LinkedIn has become too cluttered as a platform for senior leaders to network and connect, says Blue Circle founder Siddharth Anand

In India you don't have casual payer, you have casual player: Games24x7 CEO

'Gaming came into the limelight during the pandemic, and we also saw a bunch of states passing laws to ban this space'', said Bhavin Pandya

Is that NFT you're buying authentic? There are ways of finding out

While certain tools can alert a potential buyer to a fraud, there are few guarantees in this complex new world

Linking Aadhaar to voter ID: Why the law had to be amended, what govt says

There has been misuse of Aadhaar data when it has been used in elections

Disinvestment's tough climate call: The hurdle in govt's fund-raising path

A raft of energy and mineral CPSEs currently lined up for sale may find it difficult to attract buyers because they lack viable environment-related agendas

Quick commerce in superfast lane: Decoding the biz of 10-minute deliveries

The concept is rapidly coming of age but it's unclear still whether it's a boom or bubble

How India affords a falling LPR

We find that the fall in LPR since 2016 has been accompanied with a fall in the proportion of households where more than one person is employed

Hospitalisations, not total Omicron cases, should concern us: Gautam Menon

'Boosters are certainly in order for the elderly, those health care workers who were vaccinated early on and the immunocompromised', said Menon

Interpretation of ARC maladies

Regulatory oversight and supervision of ARCs need a revamp and, like other regulated entities, rogue ARCs should be punished

Govt's policy to build semiconductor ecosystem improves on earlier attempts

Vaishnaw said the government is offering global players something competitors cannot match and that is brain power

India made over 202 mn spam calls between Jan to Oct: Report

Truecaller said in a statement that it has been able to help its 300 million users around the world identify and block 37.8 billion spam calls

Despite sluggish domestic demand, PLI builds FMCG appetite for expansion

Amul has accelerated its expansion plans in ice creams and other ready-to-eat products

These states need to expedite Covid vaccination as quickly as possible

They have not even covered 50% of their senior population with two doses, while only a handful have comfortably covered half of the young populace

Booster shots for 40+ and frontline workers to cost govt another Rs 10k cr

If booster shots are given on priority, the pace of vaccination may slow further. In the worst case scenario, the country will take till mid-March to vaccinate its entire adult population partially.

Newsmaker: US Ambassador-Designate Eric Garcetti and the agenda for India

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (50) had to face searching questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when it debated his nomination as ambassador to India.

Ki Mobility test drives an O2O model for EVs, conventional automobiles

Industry experts point out that this unique model could be a challenge or an opportunity for the company in the coming days as there is no successful model to follow