The FMCG sector is actively preparing to tackle any disruptions caused by rapidly rising Covid-19 cases in the country. Food companies, dealers and distributors are working towards increasing stocks of daily essential products such as cooking oil, rice, pulses, wheat and other items in order to avoid any supply…
India’s Future Retail has asked a New Delhi court to declare arbitration proceedings in Singapore with Amazon.com as illegal, arguing that India’s antitrust agency had suspended a 2019 deal used by Amazon to assert rights over Future. Amazon successfully used the terms of its toehold $200 million investment…
Telecom operators Airtel, Jio and Vi offer multiple prepaid plans that give access to Disney+ Hotstar Mobile benefit with access to daily data and unlimited calls. Most of these plans give 1.5GB or 2GB daily data. Vodafone Idea is currently giving 3GB daily data with its Rs 699 prepaid plan. Even though the prepaid…
India’s unemployment rate hit a four-month high in December, data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) showed on Monday. The unemployment rate rose to 7.9% in December from 7.0% in November, its highest since 8.3% in August. Economic activity and consumer sentiment have been hit in the South Asian…
Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J Radhakrishnan wrote to collectors, the Greater Chennai Corporation, Health teams at district levels, deans, and various other government officials. In the letter, he spoke about the state’s full preparedness in taking steps to prevent the spread of Covid-19, including the Delta and…
Just as the new year began, China laid claim to Galwan Valley once again by unfurling its national flag on January 1. Videos of the event were put out by various Chinese government mouthpieces. ALSO READ | China renames 15 places in Arunachal Pradesh; India rejects ‘invented’ names Global Times tweeted, “In the…
Apple may be planning to increase product launches in 2022, after a modest 2021 that was mostly dampened by pandemic-induced reasons. Bloomberg has reported that besides iPhones and AirPods, Apple may finally bring its VR headset to the market this year. That is not to say that 2021 was a bad year for Apple. It was the…
Microsoft Exchange had a rocky start to the New Year, as the popular email service was hit by a Y2K22 bug, which prevented users from accessing their inbox. People initially thought it was their connection, but eventually realized it was the service all along, and Microsoft quickly responded with a fix. The Verge…
WhatsApp banned 17,59,000 accounts registered with an Indian mobile number in the month of November. In its latest compliance report published in January, the Meta-owned chat app said it made the decision to ban accounts using the abuse detection approach, which includes feedback from other users and their appeals via…
There has been no change in the price of petrol and diesel even today, i.e. on January 3, 2022. For a long time, oil companies have kept the prices of petrol and diesel stable. The excise duty on petrol and diesel was cut by the central government during Diwali, after which the oil companies have not increased the…