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Tripura starts exporting 'Queen' pineapples to Dubai

Agartala: Tripura’s ‘Queen’ variety pineapples are finally on their way to Dubai with Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Sunday flagging off a one tonne consignment — the first. The exquisite variety of fruit, known for being juicy and sweet, was sent on a SpiceJet aircraft via New Delhi. The private airliner last month signed […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Maruti Suzuki's April sales rises over 14%

New Delhi: Automobile major Maruti Suzuki India on Tuesday reported a rise of 14.4 per cent in overall sales, including exports, for April. In a regulatory filing, the company said its total sales for the month under review increased to 172,986 units from 151,215 units in April 2017. In terms of domestic sales, the automobile […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Google's rise helps Alphabet post $32.32 bn in revenue

San Francisco: Riding on Google’s growing ad business, Alphabet Inc posted $32.32 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2017 — up 24 per cent (year-on-year) from $26.06 billion during the same quarter in 2016. After deducting its traffic acquisition costs, Google’s revenue alone was $25.87 billion. Overall, Alphabet posted revenues of $110.9 billion […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
WhatsApp to soon launch app for businesses

New Delhi: Facebook-owned WhatsApp has announced it would soon be launching features to take businesses onboard and make it easy for them to interact on the messaging platform. “In the coming months, we’ll be testing new features that aim to solve some of these challenges, and make it easier for people to communicate with the […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to deepen India-US ties

New Delhi: To further deepen business ties between India and the US, a new representative body called the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) is being set up. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is set to officially unveil the new organisation here later Wednesday. “USISPF is committed to creating the most powerful strategic partnership between the US […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Twitter's head of Asia-Pacific Aliza Knox quits

San Francisco: In a yet another blow for the struggling micro-blogging website Twitter, its head of Asia-Pacific business Aliza Knox has decided to move on after a near-five year stint. Knox built out Twitter’s presence in Asia with an office in Singapore that currently spans nine locations with over 100 people on payroll, TechCrunch reported […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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'Big economic zones, labour reforms will propel growth'

Mumbai: Participants at a panel discussion here on Friday generally agreed that setting up of big economic zones, ease of doing business and labour reforms are the major factors that would enable the manufacturing sector to grow and create more jobs. India should have at least two big special economic zones on the coastal region from […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Markets head for positive opening on Tuesday following elections' outcome

Mumbai: Following the outcome of elections to five state assemblies, market analysts have predicted a positive opening for the Indian equity markets on Tuesday. With the BJP set to return to power in Uttar Pradesh (UP) after 15 years and the Congress gaining the lead in Punjab, market observers were of the view that the victory […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Meghalaya, Largest Producer Of Strawberry In N-E

Meghalaya is the largest producer of strawberries in the Northeast and is the sixth largest producer of the `fruit of love` in the entire country, officials said today. Lauding the government`s effort to promote the people`s livelihood, Governor R S Mooshahary said the cultivation of strawberries serves two purposes.

  • Friday, 02 July 2021
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Maruti Suzuki's June Sales Zooms On Year-Over-Year

 Automobile major Maruti Suzuki India's June 2021 sales sky-rocketed on a year-on-year as well as sequential basis.

  • Thursday, 01 July 2021
Pizza Hut to double outlets to 700 by 2022

Mumbai: Yum Brands-owned pizza chain Pizza Hut India plans to double its outlets to over 700 in the next five years, based on the growing popularity of western fast-food in the country, a senior company executive said. “In the long-term, India is one of our most important markets. In the medium term, we plan to […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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'India to become world's second largest smartphone market'

New York: Buoyed by growing sales, India will overtake the US to become world’s second largest smartphone market by 2017, says a report. According to international research firm Strategy Analytics, global smartphone sales are forecast to grow from 1.5 billion units in 2015 to a record 1.7 billion by 2017. China, India and the US […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
China's Dalian Wanda to set up industrial townships in India

New Delhi: The $100-billion Dalian Wanda Group of China is planning to develop industrial townships in India with built-in facilities such as schools, hospitals, shopping malls and recreational centres, a top official of the company has said. Wang Jianlin, chairman of the group, expressed his company’s interest while interacting with the Indian business community convened […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Shell to set up global IT centre in Bengaluru

Bengaluru: Oil and gas giant Shell yesterday announced plans to inaugurate a global information technology centre in Bengaluru with the potential to employ as many as 5,000 people. The new technology centre will cater to marketing, projects and technology, downstream refining and upstream oil and gas production businesses, a company statement said. In Bengaluru, Shell […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Gap Inc. to open 40 India stores in four years

New Delhi: Gap Inc., the San Francisco-based, $16.4-billion clothing, accessories and personal care products major, will launch 10 new stores in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi over the next one year, a top company official said. It opened its first one here last week. “We will come up with 40 stores in the next four […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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