If one were to scrap the glossy surface of Khan Market, one would only see a multitude of very simple people — owners of the Allied Toy Store, Faqir Chand bookstore.
Tucked in the heart of Old Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, the shop is still full of rare treasured aromas and scents. It had scores of noblemen as its customers.
The brand remained alive because one of the distributors based in Delhi's Connaught Place continued to sell his own milkshakes while illegally using Keventers’ branding.
While most jewellers today miss no opportunity to be visible on offline and online media, for a ‘khandani’ jeweller like SRHR, discretion remains a motto.
From Gandhi's prayer meets to Dalai Lama's flight to India—The Mahatta family has been at the ringside of India's headline events for almost a century.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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