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Monday, August 18, 2025
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Topic: Shopping

Once a fad, livestream shopping may be the best bet for retailers in a post-Covid world

For many goods and services, online shopping is now the only kind of shopping that exists, and that could last until a coronavirus vaccine is widely available.

Why consumers will swing between saving and splurge during Covid-19

Research shows that in the middle of great social trauma, buying behaviour is tied to how people feel about their own mortality.

Why rational people are panic buying as coronavirus spreads

Panic buying has emerged as reliable a feature of the coronavirus epidemic as a fever or dry cough.

These apps can reveal your make-up’s dirty secrets

Shoppers around the world are bent on finding out what they’re putting on their bodies. They are scanning everything from lipstick to skin cream.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?