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CCI RAIDS, AI THREATS: INDIAN ADVERTISING GASPS FOR AIR
Clients splurge on celebrities, but creative agencies face cost-cutting, risking survival
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March 31, 2025
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The Many Dangers That Democracy Confronts Today
Many countries are seeing a rise in tendencies that go against democratic values
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March 31, 2025
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NHAI banks on retired judges on arbitration body to lift dispute burden
State-run infrastructure behemoth National Highways Authority of India Ltd (NHAI) appears to have hit upon a new way to clear its legal disputes as it struggles to manage a massive debt pile-up of ₹2.76 trillion.
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March 31, 2025
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India's Coal Import Up Marginally in Jan
India's coal import rose marginally by 1.23% to 21.37 million tonne (mt) in January.
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March 31, 2025
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PM Modi Urges Community Action to Conserve Water
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his latest Mann Ki Baat address on Sunday, emphasized the importance of community-driven water conservation efforts, urging citizens to prepare for the summer by contributing to the ongoing 'Catch the Rain' campaign.
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March 31, 2025
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Investors Would Do Well Betting on Large Caps in VUCA Environment
We expect to see continued easing of rates by the RBI at its April meeting on the back of benign inflation... Niraj Kumar CIO, Future Generali India Life Insurance
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March 31, 2025
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A New Definition of Work for the 21st Century
Former RBI Governor Y.V. Reddy's compilation of essays reflects on the generational divide in attitudes towards work
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March 31, 2025
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How to recover unclaimed TDS refund
My income tax return (ITR) for AY 2024-25 was processed on 14 February 2025 u/s 143(1). I found out that my chartered accountant did not mention two tax deducted at source (TDS) amounts.
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March 31, 2025
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Govt drug stores cut medical bills: report
The government's generic drug stores in Assam and Rajasthan have helped households save 40% on medicines, according to a study of nearly 500 people from the two states.
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March 31, 2025
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PSUs eye SQM's lithium projects
Our Indian state companies are in talks with Chilean miner SQM to acquire a 20% stake in its two lithium projects in Australia for $600 million, four people said, in New Delhi's biggest effort to secure supplies of the key electric vehicle (EV) battery metal.
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March 29, 2025
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The Ambitious and Ambiguous Rise of Huawei as a Telecom Giant
This story of Chinese entrepreneur Ren Zhengfei, and the empire he built, is rich in details but short on sharp insights
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March 29, 2025
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Can we leave the turtle nesting beaches alone?
The sound of the sea was music—rock music. Hum, roll, crash, cymbal, hum, roll. We were on the shore, just behind the surf, in complete darkness.
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March 29, 2025
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Feb core sector growth at 5-month low of 2.9%
Output dips
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March 29, 2025
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Finding a Sense of Belonging in a Himalayan Valley
A writer revisits their childhood home in Bhutan's Haa Valley, now on lists of 25 'must-visit' destinations for 2025
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March 29, 2025
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The arts create social change: Mallika Sarabhai
As Darpana Academy of Performing Arts celebrates 75 years, Sarabhai talks about social projects that have driven her dance
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March 29, 2025
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The kid stays in the pictures
Creative organisations are divided into The Creatives and The Suits. In order to make something original, The Creatives are encouraged to think outside the box, but in order to make money doing it, The Suits have to keep boxing them in.
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March 29, 2025
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'Old sari box'—make your own wine tasting notes
A part from sneaky sips from my parents' wine glasses and surreptitious glugging of Christmas wine offered in church, my real tryst with wine began years ago at a swish wine bar in Mumbai.
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March 29, 2025
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Spend a day with tea pluckers
When I see the image of a woman tea plucker—versions of it are used by businesses in their marketing of tea—it rather bothers me. Perhaps it's because when you walk into a tea estate and see women at work, they smile in greeting, they allow you to photograph them, and they make a pretty picture. But can we stop and see beyond the picture to truly understand the contribution of these women to tea making?
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March 29, 2025
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'Hamlet' Returns to the Kolkata Stage
Through the ages. Be it in terms of Bengali translations of his plays or his influence on writers in Bengal, Shakespeare claims a strong place. Rabindranath Tagore, who was set passages from Macbeth to translate into Bengali as a boy, would go on to acknowledge his enduring influence on Bengali writers. As quoted by Chaudhuri, in the preface to his own play Malini, Tagore wrote, \"Shakespeare has always been for us the ideal of drama.\" Through the Ages As far as \"the ideal of drama\" goes, Hamlet epitomises its spirit, perhaps most intensely among all of Shakespeare's tragedies, which makes it incredibly difficult to stage it without a touch of melodrama.
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March 29, 2025
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Steel Baron LNM May Leave UK Over Tax Curbs: Report
This places Mittal among a growing number of wealthy foreign residents leaving UK in response to the tax reforms
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March 29, 2025
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The stamp of the cotton trade
An exhibition of 19th century textile labels, 'Ticket Tika Chaap', provides a glimpse of global business history
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March 29, 2025
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Who will tame the beast at the Indian Open?
Players will be sweating bullets at the 2025 Hero Indian Open finale on DLF's Gary Player Course
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March 29, 2025
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It's time Snow White learnt stranger-danger
We need respite from stereotypes of good and evil—and protagonists waiting to be rescued
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March 29, 2025
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IPL Has Space For Only One Thing: A Big Swing
As IPL administrators push for a game where every ball results in a boundary, is there any hope for the art of bowling?
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March 29, 2025
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Wild getaways: Can luxury tourism be green?
Luxury ecotourism might seem paradoxical, unsustainable even. But unforgettable, indulgent experiences that prioritise wildlife conservation are topping bucket lists as more travellers seek to be one with nature
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March 29, 2025
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Qcomm's market share grows 5x from 2022
India's quick commerce sector accounted for over two-thirds of all e-grocery orders last year, with its total market share growing about five times to $6-7 billion from 2022, a report by Bain and Flipkart showed.
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March 28, 2025
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Saudi Aramco eyes Indian refineries
Saudi Aramco is in talks to invest in two planned refineries in India as the world's top oil exporter looks for a stable outlet for its crude in the world's fastest-growing emerging market, several Indian sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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March 28, 2025
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The Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
The list became so known and feared that one executive cursed O'Brien's name in a meeting after tripping up on an expression
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March 28, 2025
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Parliament Approves Finance Bill, Completes Budget Exercise
The Rajya Sabha on Thursday returned the Finance Bill, 2025, to the Lok Sabha, along with 35 government amendments, including one that abolishes a 6% digital tax on online advertisements, thus completing the 2025-26 budgetary exercise that started on 1 February.
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March 28, 2025
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Govt upgrading its vaccine storage infrastructure to aid other countries
In a show of soft power, India is upgrading and expanding its vaccine storage infrastructure into an international centre to handhold other developing countries in harnessing the global immunization supply chain.
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