Thousands of small brands are ruling the consumer market despite the predatory pricing and deep discounting by foreign e-commerce companies and efforts of certain FMCG companies to sideline the distributor network, said the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), which represents about 70 million traders in the country. “If the […]

Despite partial restoration of salaries, pilots across airlines remain dissatisfied, throwing challenges for managers. The Tata group, the new owner of Air India, has begun the process of restoring salaries of pilots and cabin crew members in a wider restructuring of wages and allowances to align them with those of […]

‘It has taken us 15 years to get to where we are. It obviously doesn’t happen overnight.’ Amongst all the unicorns that listed last year and had blockbuster, billion-dollar IPOs, the most low-profile, unrecognised and under-publicised would arguably be Venkat Viswanath and his wife Pramad Jandhyala’s Bengaluru-based LatentView Analytics. If […]

Sean Griffin is a professor of Film & Media Arts at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts. He is the author of “Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out” (NYU Press, 1999). The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. The […]

The destructive power of nuclear weapons has changed warfare significantly since the U.S. dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Those bombings caused approximately 200,000 deaths. Since then, several more countries have developed a nuclear arsenal. The country with the most nuclear weapons is Russia. […]

The Elon Musk offer to buy all of Twitter, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TWTR) shares and take it private faces three risks. One is that Twitter’s board could adopt a poison pill and prevent the billionaire from making the purchase. Another is that Musk may become frustrated if the board and large […]

European stocks rose on Friday to snap two days of declines, as investors took in stride a new round of sanctions against Russia, the prospect of tighter monetary policy and China’s worsening Covid-19 outbreak. The pan European Stoxx 600 rose a little over 1 percent to 459.68 after closing 0.2 […]

The trams on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot tour trams are going electric. Four electric trams have been put in circulation to carry visitors through the historic Universal backlot — the theme park’s signature attraction — officials announced today. By 2025, the park plans to convert its entire fleet of […]

Asian stocks were broadly lower on Friday and U.S. equity futures struggled for direction as investors fret about the war in Ukraine, Covid-19 lockdowns in China and the Fed’s plan for aggressive policy tightening. The dollar extended gains against the Japanese yen after Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President […]

Cities are centers for commerce, industry, transportation, and city dwellers benefit from the education, employment, and social/recreational opportunities that an urban lifestyle offers. Cities, however, are also the most polluted places on Earth. And urban air pollution is a killer. According to the World Health Organization, 4.2 million people die […]