Fast-moving consumer goods companies, most of which derive big share of earnings from rural markets, struggling to meet sales targets. Consumers buying cheaper products, smaller packs.
Fresh investments are coming with endless conditions. And the players are changing their operational style to meet efficiency. They must survive and show profits.
Earlier this week, gangs of dacoits operating in the badlands between the Koh-i Sulaiman mountains, the Indus and the Cholistan desert, ambushed and killed 12 police officers.
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‘Hasina was a dictator who crushed students, throttled democracy but still India supported her; friendship with India emboldened her,’ a Dhaka University student told ThePrint.
"The government shouldn’t let same-gotra marriages happen. If they do, we’ll have to resort to honour killings to save our community,” said young khap member.
Accused of trying to cover up brutal rape-murder of a doctor, Ghosh is being investigated by CBI, which is also set to take over probe into alleged financial bungling under his watch.
CNR Rao, one of India’s most celebrated scientists, is still writing papers and running the research institute JNCASR in Bengaluru. His latest cause is taking science to young people.
Inspired by Chandrayaan, Amity Pushp Vihar students helped design a lunar settlement that eclipsed global rivals. They got top prize at International Space Settlement Design Competition.
In 1990, after he had lost power, he said to me in an interview: ‘Yes, I was young, I made mistakes.’ Off-the-record he added: ‘If you become prime minister tomorrow, you would make the same mistakes.’
On 6 December 1948, TT Krishnamachari spoke in the Constituent Assembly during a debate on Article 19, supporting it as it is, including how it's framed in the matter of religion.
Extreme weather events have impacted 50% of corporate respondents to a recent survey. This underlines the importance of significant action now to increase climate resilience.
Iran used Shahab-3, along with Fattah-1 hypersonic missiles, to attack Israel after the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in air strikes on Lebanon's Beirut.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
What a well researched article with so many on the ground accounts from different people involved. Too good. You even added lot of data and analysis to substantiate the points. Was missing this kind of journalism in this era of sensational and twitter reporting. Kudos and keep it up.
7,00,000 unsold cars in showrooms. Leaders of organised retail closing stores, letting go off tens of thousand of employees. Private consumption and private investment two out of four engines that are not firing on all cylinders. Merchandise exports sluggish. Government capital spending cannot keep the economy aloft on its own.
What a well researched article with so many on the ground accounts from different people involved. Too good. You even added lot of data and analysis to substantiate the points. Was missing this kind of journalism in this era of sensational and twitter reporting. Kudos and keep it up.
7,00,000 unsold cars in showrooms. Leaders of organised retail closing stores, letting go off tens of thousand of employees. Private consumption and private investment two out of four engines that are not firing on all cylinders. Merchandise exports sluggish. Government capital spending cannot keep the economy aloft on its own.