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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

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.