Business

25 Sep

Pandemic makes 90% Indians careful with expenses: Survey.

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Even as Indians increase their spending with the easing of lockdowns, over 90% of respondents in a survey said that the pandemic has made them more careful with expenditure as against 75% of global respondents.Indians are being increasingly careful with money despite many of them (56%) reporting a spike in spending in July compared to global peers (46%). According to a survey conducted by Standard Chartered Bank, 76% of survey respondents in India said that the economic impact of Covid-19 has made them more likely to track their spending. The examine of 12,000 adults throughout 12 markets — Hong Kong,…

25 Sep

WhatsApp’s Defence Secrecy Measures Amid Row Over Leaked Chats In Drugs Probe.

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Social community platform WhatsApp in the present day stated that its messages are protected and no third get together can entry them — an assertion that got here amid hypothesis about how the Narcotics Management Bureau managed to entry previous messages throughout its investigation into the Bollywood drug angle, an offshoot of the Sushant Singh Rajput case. The central company has summoned actors Deepika Padukone and Shraddha Kapoor on foundation of chats relationship again to 2017, accessed from the cellphone of expertise agent Jaya Saha, Jaya Saha was the expertise supervisor of Sushant Singh Rajput, who was discovered useless at…

24 Sep

Toyota Urban Cruiser is here

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Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) launched its youngest SUV, the all-new Toyota Urban Cruiser. The Toyota Urban Cruiser is the second model to be launched in India under the global Toyota-Suzuki alliance following the Toyota Glanza. The all-new Urban Cruiser will feature the new powerful K-Series 1.5 litre four-cylinder Petrol Engine and will be available in a choice of Manual Transmission (MT) and Automatic Transmission (AT). Bookings for the Toyota Urban Cruiser are open. Customers can either book the car online (www.toyotabharat.com) or visit their nearest Toyota dealership. Six grades of Toyota Urban Cruiser are priced between Rs. 840,000 and Rs.…

24 Sep

Samsung Galaxy F41 to be launched in India on October 8.

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Samsung Galaxy F41 will launch in India on October 8. The phone is going to be the first in Samsung's newly announced ‘F series'. A dedicated Flipkart teaser page for the phone shows the Galaxy F41 will feature a massive 6,000mAh battery and a Super AMOLED display, and also mentions a couple other details. Last week, the Galaxy F41 was reportedly spotted in a Geekbench listing that hinted at the processor and RAM present in the phone. Additionally, the schematics of the first F series phone, now known to be the Galaxy F41, were also leaked recently. Samsung will unveil…

23 Sep

Pallonji Group seek to sell Tata stake, but valuation seen as challenge.

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The Pallonji Mistry family on Tuesday announced its decision to exit Tata Sons – the holding company of India’s largest conglomerate in which it is the largest minority shareholder with almost 18.4% – after a bitter and protracted four-year battle in courtrooms and outside.In a 700-word-plus statement accusing the Tatas of “value-destructive business decisions” and of “oppressive” and “vindictive” actions aimed at “suppressing and inflicting irreparable harm to the SP Group”, the Mistrys said “the family believes that a separation of interests would best serve all stakeholder groups,” and that it was “crucial that an early resolution is reached to…

23 Sep

CAMS Rs 2,240-cr IPO closes today.

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Computer Age Management Services (CAMS) initial public offering (IPO) on the primary market will close on September 23. CAMS, which acts as a registrar and transfer agent (RTA) for mutual funds is targeting to raise Rs 2,240 crore from investors. The IPO was fully subscribed nearly two times at the end of Tuesday. The bidding for the Rs 2,240-crore IPO opened on Monday. CAMS is a mutual fund trabsfer agency to the Indian Asset Management Companies. It is targeting to raise Rs 2,240 crore from investors. The price band for the issue has been fixed at Rs 1,229-1,230. Prospective retail…

23 Sep

Masai School helps the student with ISA

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In India, social status and financial barriers are common hurdles to access quality education. In an attempt to break this, Masai School integrated the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) or the ‘Study Now, Pay Later’ model as a business practice. In definition, an income share agreement (or ISA) is a financial structure in which an individual or organization provides something of value (often a fixed amount of money) to a recipient who, in exchange, agrees to pay back a percentage of their income for a fixed number of years. Masai School began operations in June 2019, in Bangalore. It also has…

23 Sep

Amway India looks at scaling HD orders to 5X by 2020

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Amway India, one of the country’s leading FMCG direct selling companies, is focusing on bolstering it's home delivery (HD) and logistics network to support the surge in online orders. As a part of Amway’s 10-year growth vision, focused on unleashing the power of entrepreneurship coupled with the emerging trend of social commerce, the global direct selling giant had begun integrating offline-to-online (O2O), earlier this year, to drive targeted results. The company has witnessed a significant shift to online sales, from 33.6% in February 2020 to over 70% today. Amway expects the trend to continue and foresees the online orders to…

23 Sep

IPL 2020: Colgate partners with 6 teams

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Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited, the market leader in Oral Care in the country, in its continuous endeavour to Keep India Smiling, has collaborated as the official Smile Partner with 6 teams at the upcoming Dream11 Indian Premier League 2020. The teams include Delhi Capitals, Kings XI Punjab, Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Colgate’s Smile Icon will be visible across a variety of touchpoints across the tournament. This season of Dream11 IPL 2020, being held against all odds, is a remarkable show of the country’s positivity and optimism and is in line with Colgate’s ideology of ‘Smile…

23 Sep

Harpic highlights the importance of disinfection

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For 100 years, Harpic has been working towards providing clean and hygienic sanitation solutions across the world. Being a leader in the toilet care category in India, Harpic has been pioneering the cause of hygiene and sanitation in Indian homes for decades. Both, Harpic Toilet Cleaner and Harpic Bathroom cleaner have been tested by internationally accredited external laboratories and have been proven to effectively kill>99.9% germs and the Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19) virus when used undiluted. Harpic, with its new brand campaign- ‘Saaf Nahi Swachh’ is educating consumers on superior hygiene and disinfection of toilets and bathrooms at home to protect their…