Soon you will be able to choose from an array of non-surgical masks in garment-matching colours, prints and reusable denim finishes as fashion brands such as Arvind Fashions, Madura Fashion & Lifestyle, Puma, Bata, Hidesign and Woodland seek to cash in on the opportunity anticipating a year-long wellness habit. Several […]
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Moody’s Investors Service on Friday said it estimates India’s GDP growth to hit ‘zero’ in FY21 and pointed to a wide fiscal deficit, high government debt, weak social and physical infrastructure, and a fragile financial sector. The quality of India’s economic growth has declined in recent years, demonstrated by financial […]
By Amit Kapoor & Sampriti Mukherjee The Covid-19 pandemic has upended people’s lives, leading to a massive death toll across the globe. Similar to other countries, India has also not been able to sidestep the wrath of the virus, Guest Contributor with total deaths going beyond 1,700 and confirmed cases […]
By Anirban Nag The world’s biggest lockdown forced 122 million people out of jobs in India last month, according to estimates from a leading private sector think tank. Employment plunged in April after the government imposed a 40-day lockdown in a nation of 1.3 billion people, forcing businesses to shut […]
By Siddhartha Singh India’s budget gap for the year ended March 31 has touched 4.4% of gross domestic product, breaching the target set in February as an economic slowdown reduced tax collections, people with knowledge of the matter said. A revenue shortfall of 1.7 trillion rupees ($22 billion) led to […]
BENGALURU: India’s manufacturing activity contracted at its sharpest pace on record in April as a lockdown to combat the rapid spread of the coronavirus led to a slump in demand and massive supply chain disruptions, a private sector survey showed on Monday. Asia’s third largest economy is taking a huge […]
Nearly three-fourths of all Covid-19 cases and deaths reported in India have been in the country’s 35 largest urban agglomerations (UA), with two-thirds of cases and deaths being in just 13 of them, a TOI analysis of the data shows. As of Sunday morning, the number of cases reported from […]
NEW DELHI: India’s fatality rate of 3.3% of total confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths of 0.09 people per one lakh population compares well with some other countries, including South Korea, which is seen as a top performer in containing the disease, and China that resorted to measures like mass quarantine […]
India’s domestic IT spending, put together hardware, software, and services, is expected to decline 4.5% in 2020, as against a 9.1% growth last year, according to IDC’s Worldwide Black Book Live Edition, March 2020. While the hardware segment is likely to see a maximum drop in business; there will be […]
NEW DELHI: India’s domestic IT spending on hardware, software and services is expected to drop by 4.5 per cent in 2020 impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, according to research firm IDC. The forecast decline compares with 2019 growth rate of 9.1 per cent as per IDC’s Worldwide Black Book Live […]