Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray (right) with his son Aaditya Thackeray in Mumbai, on January 10, 2025. The party’s unilateral decision to go solo in the Mumbai municipal election came as a shock to its alliance partners. | Photo Credit: PTI After its massive loss in the Maharashtra Assembly election in November 2024, the State’s
New Delhi: E-commerce enablement platform Unicommerce is eyeing new growth areas, including customer loyalty programmes and ad-tech solutions, as online orders continue to rise, particularly through quick commerce. “The e-commerce value chain has three layers: customer engagement (pre-purchase), transaction processing (where our platforms already operate), and order fulfillment. Brands currently manage orders across multiple platforms
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Sachin Pilot, Congress leader and former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister on Wednesday criticised the BJP government in the state, accusing the saffron party of making a “mockery” of the system after Cabinet Minister Kiroda Lal Meena alleged phone tapping. As reported by PTI, Pilot said that phone tapping is a serious offence and emphasised that
When pilots of a flight carrying ex-Maharashtra Minister Tanaji Sawant’s son to Bangkok were asked mid-way to return to Pune, they thought it was a “hoax” message, but complied after verification from aviation authorities, an airline executive has said. The chartered flight, operated by a private firm, carrying Rishiraj Sawant (32) and his two friends
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As a city grows, so do its problems. In the years 2022 and 2024 Bengaluru witnessed some of the worst floods in its history, whereas 2023 was a year of drought. The latest TomTom traffic index has rated the city’s traffic as the third slowest in the world. Plumes of dust from construction debris, potholes
The stake sale is a change of plan for Orkla, which was considering an IPO for the Indian business as recently as September 2024. The Norwegian company entered India by acquiring ready-to-eat food maker MTR in 2007 and spicemaker Eastern in 2020. “ITC is ready to evaluate the acquisition because the company is keen on
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The development also signals a more cautious approach to regulating the sector as India weighs the potential impact on foreign investments and domestic e-commerce players in the evolving global trade landscape. “It is not the right time to go ahead with the release of the e-commerce policy, given the changing global geopolitical scenario,” one of
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New Delhi: The National Health Authority has asked the health ministry to integrate the Universal Immunization Win (U-WIN) platform with Unified Health Interface (UHI). This is similar to the approach adopted for CoWIN when vaccination slots were booked during the covid epidemic and will help people discover vaccination services. As part of the plan, efforts
Advocating a “strong need” for unity between the Congress and the Aam Admi Party (AAP), Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen said that the two parties should have fought the Delhi elections together with mutually agreed commitments. Speaking to PTI during an exclusive interview at his ancestral home in Santiniketan in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, Mr.
Dear reader, In his incisive 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell performs a brilliant autopsy on the art and craft of writing and communication. He focusses on how and what language manifests—or rather, fails to manifest—in political discourse. The master satirist, never one to mince words (though he’d be the first to
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