Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
TopicIndian retail

Topic: Indian retail

Forget Mukesh Ambani vs Bezos, kirana king Udaan is the new kid to beat in India’s retail war

Andy Mukherjee -
Udaan has taken 80% of B2B e-commerce market, delivering goods it stocks in 200 warehouses to more than 17 lakh retail stores in 900 cities every day.

Indian economy began stabilising in November as retail demand picked up

Anirban Nag -
The pace of activity was enough for the RBI to revise its forecast for the economy, which it now expects to exit a recession in the current quarter to December.

Fat tax — What you didn’t know clothing brands are charging you for

Tina Das -
After being called out by fashion watchdog Diet Sabya, brands like Gauri and Nainika and Fuel are now owning up to the practice of discriminatory pricing.

Fears about largescale retail loan defaults in India overblown, Macquarie analysts say

Suvashree Ghosh -
The RBI has allowed borrowers to delay monthly payments on their loans until the end of August, to provide some relief from a prolonged lockdown.

Lipstick effect helped brands survive crises before. It can now aid Covid-hit companies

Sandeep Goyal -
A lipstick is not an inferior or trivial good, but a significant economic barometer that can indicate how consumers might behave amid a bruised economy.

Mukesh Ambani is a man on a mission and even a pandemic or lockdown can’t stop him

P. R. Sanjai -
Mukesh Ambani has raised $8 billion with 3 deals in 3 weeks as he races to transform his oil-and-petrochemicals empire into a tech-driven, e-commerce force.

Amazon close to acquiring 10% stake in Future Retail, which runs Big Bazaar chain

Saritha Rai -
Amazon's deal with Future Retail will enable it to tap into India’s rising demand for household products and home-delivered fresh produce.

India’s retail market may not be as attractive as it appears

Mihir Sharma -
Global companies must understand consumer needs and let govt regulations settle down before investing in India’s attractive retail market.

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Opinion

(L-R) Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, and Narendra Modi | ThePrint

India has interests on both sides of US-China divide. Cold War holds clues for path ahead

Lt General Prakash Menon -
India’s strategic balance is weighted towards the West and its economic balance is towards China. But it needs more to build a multipolar world order.
The Supreme Court of India | Manisha Mondal | ThePrint file photo

What India—Hindus and Muslims—missed in Supreme Court’s ‘lecture’ on Nupur Sharma

Photo of Malabar pit viper and gliding frog in Maharashtra's Cherrapunji' | Nachiket Awadhani/Environmental Conservation Organisation NGO

‘To live is to kill’ — a Malabar pit viper and gliding frog affirm nature’s basic law

Economy

Illustration by Soham Sen

Keep calm and carry on: Unlike wheat, rice isn’t hot yet

Sayantan Bera -
The world is worried that India might restrict exports of rice after wheat, pushing prices higher and worsening global food security.

Defence

File photo of a defence personnel armed with a SiG 716 rifle near the Line of Control | Photo: Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

Army puts out tender for 30k ‘night sights’ so its US-made assault rifles can aim better in dark

Raghav Bikhchandani -
While an open tender has been issued for procurement of the optical instruments, Bengaluru-based firm Tonbo Imaging, whose services the Army has previously used, is a frontrunner.

National Interest

Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest

Shekhar Gupta -
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.

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