MUMBAI: Meta on Wednesday introduced verified subscription plans for businesses on Facebook and Instagram in India.

NEW DELHI: Quick grocery delivery platform Zepto on Friday announced the elevation of Devendra Meel to the Chief Business Officer (CBO), effective July 2024.

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SEOUL: The regulator said on Friday it will ask major e-commerce platforms operating in South Korea, including China's AliExpress and Temu, to submit data on their businesses for market analysis.

JALANDHAR: Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann held a meeting with traders and businessmen in Jalandhar on Thursday and discussed their issues with them. The Chief Minister sat and had lunch with the traders who came to the meeting and shared his views with them.

HGH India, awell-established bi-annual trade show for home textiles, home décor, home furniture, houseware & gifts, commenced its 15th edition today, inaugurated by Mr. Arun Roongta, Managing Director, HGH India; Dr. Geert Boettger, Director, HGH India;Smt. Roop Rashi, IA&AS, Textile Commissioner, Ministry of Textiles, GOI.Special guests at the inaugural included ID Ketan Sheth, Chairman, IIID, Mumbai; Ar. Gaurish Chandawarkar, Directors, IES College of Architecture and Ar. Chandrashekhar Kanetkar, Principal Architect, Chandrashekhar Design INC.

JALANDHAR: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) again got a big boost before the Jalandhar West Assembly by-election. Jalandhar city's prominent businessman and social worker Raj Kumar Kalsi joined AAP on Sunday, he was impressed by the policies of the Mann government.

NEW DELHI: Congress MPs on Friday gave a suspension of business notice in Parliament over the alleged NEET-UG and UGC NET paper leaks and the failure of the National Testing Agency (NTA).

NEW DELHI: On the occasion of World MSME Day, demonstrating a deep commitment to supporting the backbone of the Indian economy, PhonePe Payment Gateway (PG) on Thursday shared that it is already working with more than half of MSMEs (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises) in Tier 2 cities and beyond to enable PG solutions.

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NEW DELHI: Output growth across India's private sector regained growth in June with business activity increasing at quicker rates among manufacturing companies and services firms while hiring of workers shot up to an 18-year high, according to HSBC’s flash PMI data released on Friday.

NEW DELHI: PC and printer major HP Inc on Wednesday announced the pre-booking of its next-generation AI PCs in India for businesses, creators and retail customers.

CHANDIGARH: The Government of Punjab led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann is dedicated to fostering a collaborative relationship with industrialists and traders. To fulfill this aim Vineet Verma, a member of the Punjab State Trader's Commission, conducted a meeting today at Mohali with representatives from various business sectors, aimed to address the issues faced by industrialists and traders in Punjab.

PANAJI: After a stiff opposition to its proposed rent a bike service, Konkan Railway on Wednesday cancelled the tender floated in this regard, official said.

NEW DELHI: From farmer producer organisations to Kanjeevaram silk weavers to self-help groups like Kerala's Kudumbashree, the government-run Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is seeing a variety of participation from small businesses across India, said T Koshy, MD & CEO.

CHANDIGARH: Faculty members of Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, attended a thought-provoking panel discussion on 'The Journey to a Greener Future' at the Indian School of Business, Mohali.

NEW DELHI: India’s talented youth and a stable democratic polity will provide a safe business environment to all partners, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.

KOLKATA: Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials are investigating the role of two firms linked to the fish export business of suspended Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan.

NEW DELHI: Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel, on Thursday, appointed Sharat Sinha as CEO of Airtel Business, with effect from June 3.

JALANDHAR: National Convenor of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with traders and businessmen in Jalandhar on Wednesday. AAP's national general secretary Dr Sandeep Pathak, Punjab cabinet minister Aman Arora and Jalandhar's AAP candidate Pawan Kumar Tinu were present with Kejriwal in the meeting.

MUMBAI: Actress Sonakshi Sinha, who has also stepped into the world of business with her nail label, said that being an entrepreneur is a bit more daunting as it doesn’t come “naturally to her.”

SEOUL: Samsung on Tuesday said that it has agreed to set up a joint venture (JV) with a leading provider of climate solutions Lennox for a heating, ventilation and air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC) business in the US and Canada.

SAN FRANCISCO: Uber Technologies will acquire Delivery Hero's owned foodpanda business in Taiwan for $950 million in cash, as the online food ordering company focuses on other markets.

NEW DELHI: Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal's brother Ankush Aggarwal has returned to the ride-hailing business after working with Ola Electric.

SURAT: The Income Tax Department on Thursday launched a series of raids against business groups in Gujarat's Surat and Morbi.

NEW DELHI: Even though building a business is many times difficult in India, the Indian dream is real, said Radhika Gupta, CEO of Edelweiss Asset Management and Shark Tank Judge.

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday its operating profit went up more than ten-fold in the first quarter, with its chip business shifting to the black for the first time in five quarters.

AMRITSAR: Traders upset with BJP supported Congress Lok Sabha candidate Gurjit Singh Aujla during a meeting at White Avenue today. Aujla also welcomed him and assured him that he would now get the opportunity to be happy which he had not got in the last ten years.

NEW DELHI: Efficiency is classically defined as the measure of productivity per unit of time and is therefore traditionally linked to the ‘work attitude’ of the employee, the quality of management that provides for a strong ‘supervision’, and the system of ‘performance evaluation’ that was expected to be free of personal bias or favouritism.

NAGALAND: An indefinite shutdown of trades, shops, and business establishments, called by the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), began in Nagaland's commercial capital Dimapur on Friday to protest against "unabated extortion" by underground outfits.

MUMBAI: Actor Rishabh Jaiswal, who plays the role of Krish Bansal in 'Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai' (YRKKH) has called it the 'best' character, adding how he also went through a similar confusion when he was in the college.

NEW DELHI: Homegrown consumer electronics player Super Plastronics Pvt Ltd (SPPL) on Tuesday launched its own e-commerce platform with an aim to do a yearly business of Rs 100 crore.

PANAJI: Two election duty staff have been arrested for allegedly seizing Rs 16 lakh from a businessman by posing as I-T officials, while they were discharging election duty in Goa, police said.

KOLKATA: Suspended Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan has diverted funds worth Rs 31 crore through his prawn and shrimp export business which was registered in the name of his daughter Sheikh Sabina.

AMRITSAR: Commerce Club under the aegis of PG Department of Commerce and Management in association with Product Development and Monitoring Committee under Research and Development Cell, Khalsa College for women (KCW), Amritsar organized "Femme d'affaire: Women in Business" to celebrate International Women's day. KCGC Member Dr. Sukhbir Kaur Mahal was the Chief Guest.

NEW DELHI: Shares of food-aggregator Zomato declined on Tuesday after the Competition Commission of India ordered a thorough investigation into the conduct of online food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy.

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Business Essentials service is now available to all small businesses in the US that brings together device management, 24/7 Apple support, and iCloud storage into flexible subscription plans.

HYDERABAD:The Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy Centre for International Trade and Business Laws will come up at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, with the former Supreme Court judge donating Rs 1.50 crore for its establishment.

INDIANAPOLIS:Governor Eric J. Holcomb, Adjutant General R. Dale Lyles and Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers will lead an economic development trip to Slovakia and Israel beginning March 27, building on the governor's focus of increasing Indiana’s international engagement and cultivating new business relationships and people-to-people ties in central Europe and the Middle East. While encouraging collaborative opportunities to advance innovation, investment and bolster strategic relationships, the delegation will show humanitarian support during a critical time for the geopolitical situation in the region, according to Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC).

NEW DELHI: The US has added sites operated by Chinese technology giants Alibaba and Tencent to its "Notorious Markets List" of businesses it believes are involved with trading counterfeit goods, the BBC reported.

NEW DELHI: The Observer Research Foundation's (ORF) new monograph 'Jailed for Doing Business: the 26,134 imprisonment clauses in India's business laws' analyses newly isolated compliance data that entrepreneurs and corporations face. It offers recommendations that could help policymakers reimagine India's compliance universe.

CHANDIGARH:BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh today condemned the killing of a Hindu businessman in Sindh province in Pakistan and demanded Punjab PCC president Navjot Sidhu to explain why Hindus were being killed in the tenure of hir bosom friend Imran Khan who is prime minister of Pakistan.

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday said it has arrested Pravin Raut, the former director of Guru Ashish Construction Pvt Ltd in Mumbai under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

NEW DELHI: Jindal Global Business School (JGBS) at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) announced the launch of a new, fully residential One Year Global MBA (Business Analytics) degree programme for experienced business professionals.

INDIANAPOLIS: The Indiana Small Business Development Center (SBDC) today announced applications are open for the Indiana Technical Assistance Program (INTAP) through Feb. 20, 2022. This statewide initiative connects small businesses with critical professional assistance to complete growth and improvement projects, according to Indiana Economic Development Corporation,.

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has blocked the Joe Biden administration's rule requiring employees at large US businesses to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or be subject to frequent testing, but it allowed the administration's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers receiving funds from the federal government to go ahead.

CHANDIGARH:  In a bid to boost state’s economy and catapult employment generation, the Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday approved the special package of incentives for new Mega and Ultra Mega Projects to attract huge investment in these projects across the State.

NEW DELHI:The Mumbai Income Tax team, which is conducting raids at the premises of Uttar Pradesh businessmen Pushapraj Pampi Jain, Anup Jain, Mahavir Prasad, Faizan Malik and Malik Mian, have collected a lot of evidence against them and are examining the balance sheets of FY 2016-2021.

AJNALA (AMRITSAR): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and national spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said, "People of Punjab repeatedly changed governments due to corruption and mafia, but there was never any change in the system of governance.

NEW DELHI As Qatar and Turkey seek to take control of operations at the Kabul airport, Afghan businessmen are urging the government to sign a contract with a company from the United Arab Emirates instead, as many Afghans have investments in the UAE and they fear access will be restricted, Tolo News reported.

NEW DELHI: More troubles are looming for Piyush Jain as the Enforcement Directorate is now mulling to lodge money laundering case against the Kanpur based businessman, who was arrested by the GST team for tax evasion.

NEW DELHI:The Enforcement Directorate has carried out a search operation at the premises of a Punjab-based cable businessman under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

NEW DELHI: Indias leading industrialist and philanthropist, Anil Agarwal, Chairman of the Vedanta Group, one of the worlds biggest Oil & Gas and Metals companies, has been bestowed with the Philanthropy Award at the Asian Business Awards 2021 for his outstanding contribution towards humanitarianism initiatives centering on healthcare, education, sanitation, skill development and sustainable livelihood.

SBS Nagar : (Gurpreet Vasu/Raj Kumar)The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday assured the shopkeepers, traders, businessmen and entrepreneurs of Nawanshahr that on the formation of the Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab after three months, the entire trade and business of the state would be given complete relief from the ‘Inspector Raj’.

NEW DELHHI: A special CBI court has sentenced a businessman to six years of rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs 10.2 crore in a 2003 case related to customs duty fraud by submitting forged export documents

CHANDIGARH: In an attempt to expose a 'nexus' between the Badal family and his party's former leader and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, state Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday said as a Cabinet minister he had proposed a new law to recover stolen state taxes from cable TV business company Fastway Transmissions but was stalled by the latter.

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NEW DELHI: Japanese conglomerate Toshiba has confirmed plans to split the company into three separate businesses, BBC reported.

TOKYO: The Japanese government said that it would shorten the Covid-19 quarantine period for vaccinated business travellers from overseas upon their arrival to three days starting from November 8 onwards.

KANPUR: Seema Samridhi, the lawyer who fought for justice in the Nirbhaya case and is also fighting the case of the Hathras rape and murder victim, will now take up the Manish Gupta murder case.

NEW YORK: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's meetings with US businesses and institutions continued at a feverish pitch, including talks with two key investors asking them to broaden their world view and look at India for investment.

HYDERABAD:  Police in Hyderabad have arrested four brothers for killing a Dubai-based Non-Resident Indian (NRI) businessman, it was revealed on Saturday.

CHANDIGARH:Underlining the state's massive investment potential, Punjab Industries & Commerce Minister Gurkirat Singh on Monday urged the investors to invest and leverage the present opportunities in sectors like Agro-processing, Pharmaceuticals, Iron & Steel, Health, Education and Manufacturing.

KANPUR:  A day after the arrest of the two policemen, including suspended inspector J.N. Singh and sub-inspector Akshay Mishra, accused for the murder of businessman Manish Gupta, his widow, Meenakshi has demanded capital punishment for the accused.

GORAKHPUR: Suspended UP Police Inspector J.N. Singh and Sub Inspector Akshay Mishra, both accused in the alleged murder of a Kanpur businessman during a hotel raid in Gorakhpur, have been arrested.

GORAKHPUR(UP):Suspended UP Police Inspector J.N. Singh and Sub Inspector Akshay Mishra, both accused in the alleged murder of a Kanpur businessman during a hotel raid in Gorakhpur, have been arrested.

NEW DELHI:The Supreme Court on Tuesday, pulling up the Centre, on the changes in the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Super Specialty (NEET-SS) 2021 pattern, said the impression and message which will go out is that medical education and medical regulation in the country has become a business and it appears the entire haste is for filling the vacant seats.

NEW DELHI: More Pakistani individuals ranging from media group owners to family members of army personnel to businessmen and executives were identified in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' (ICIJ) Pandora Papers — a major international research into the financial holdings of high-profile individuals around the world, Dawn reported.

KANPUR: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday met family members of the Kanpur businessman who had died mysteriously during a police raid in Gorakhpur on Monday night.

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NEW DELHI: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has arrested a person for impersonating an IFS officer and cheating a businessman to the tune of Rs 2.39 crore.

KOLKATA: Covid-19 has brought several businesses to its knees. But it has also given small opportunities to hungry entrepreneurs, keen to display their social conscience. With companies declaring a work-from-home model and the novel coronavirus pandemic spreading its tentacles, BA graduate Hemlata Kushwaha from Kolkata has taken up the opportunity to provide 'pick up and drop service' to take the necessities at the doorstep of the people of the city.

BENGALURU:Reeling under the impact of the extended lockdown across the state, the Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) on Friday sought concessions from the state government to the business community suffering mounting losses.

BENGALURU: Bengaluru Central Crime Branch police arrested Tamil Nadu's 'gold man' and politician, A. Hari Nadar for running an inter-state organised crime racket and cheating a Bengaluru businessman of a whopping sum of Rs 7.2 crore.

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NEW DELHI: The SBI business activity index has declined to hit a new low in April amid the second wave of Covid-19 and the fresh lockdown measures.

PRAYAGRAJ(Uttar Pradesh): At a time when several states are reeling under the impact of oxygen shortage amid the raging pandemic, a businessman in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj has initiated a plan to set up an oxygen plant in the city with a capacity to feed requirements of, at least, three government hospitals free of cost forever.

NEW DELHI: Flexible workspace company WeWork India on Monday announced the launch of WeWork Business Solutions (WBS) for its members.
A company statement said that WeWork Business Solutions is a platform that aims at offering hassle-free, cost-effective professional, and specially curated solutions to all WeWork members, both existing and new.

CHANDIGARH: Reiterating firm commitment of the State Government in facilitating investments from Japan through the Invest Punjab, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday highlighted his vision of having a “Little Japan” in Punjab that builds upon the current thriving presence of more than 100 Japanese business establishments in the State.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab on Thursday took a major leap towards becoming a national and global lighthouse for ‘Ease of Doing Business for MSME’, with Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh unleashing a fresh wave of reforms to further reduce the regulatory burden on MSMEs through rationalisation, digitalisation and decriminalisation of the regulatory landscape, thus enabling entrepreneurs to focus on expanding their operations in an predictable business environment during this COVID-19 pandemic.

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NEW DELHI: Retail and wholesale businesses across the country have taken a hit of Rs 46,000 crore in the last 10 days amid curfews and partial lockdowns across several states.

NEW DELHI: The night curfew imposed in the national capital amid resurgence of Covid-19 is not only hampering the shops, restaurants and others rather it is adding on to the woes of the banquet hall operators as people have started postponing the weddings and cancelling the bookings. A lot of people are even asking the banquet hall operators to change the time of the bookings too.

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday granted bail to businessman Anoop Kumar Gupta, accused in the alleged Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case.

NEW DELHI: Franklin Templeton India's president Sanjay Sapre has said that the fund house has no plans to exit its India business.

NEW DELHI: Lenovo has appointed Amar Babu to lead the company's business in the overall Asia Pacific region, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand, and India /South Asia.

NEW DELHI: Despite the call for Bharat Bandh across the country by some farmer organisations, markets stayed open and business was going on as usual on Friday across the country, according to the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT).

NEW DELHI: Sachin Hindurao Vaze, the senior Mumbai police officer who is being investigated is listed as a director in three companies namely Digi Next Multimedia, Multibuild Infraprojects and Techlegal Solutions.

CHANDIGARH: Vietnam Ambassador to India, Pham Sanh Chau, on Friday sought increased cooperation with industries and the travel community based in Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha proceedings faced disruption for the second consecutive day on Tuesday as pandemonium on the price hike of LPG cylinder and petroleum products were again raised by the Opposition since the House assembled.

NEW DELHI: As the demand scenario improves and economic activities gather momentum, a FICCI survey shows that confidence among Indian businesses and entrepreneurs is significantly high and the business confidence index is at a decadal high.

NEW DELHI: India ranks third in the world for women working in senior management positions, according to the Women in Business 2021 report by global accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton.

MOHALI: University School of Agriculture Sciences of the Rayat Bahra University organised an expert talk on “Opportunities in Seed Enterprise” by Dr Priya Ranjan, Principal Scientist, Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI).

NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) proposes to carve out its oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business into a separate wholly-owned subsidiary by second quarter of FY22.

CHANDIGARH:Xcelerator Ludhiana – Sadda Karobaar, Punjab Di Shaan (program led by Government of Punjab, CICU (Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings) and GAME- Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship), is paving the way for participants to become local success stories. The 6-month business accelerator program for catalyzing growth of businesses in Ludhiana, has started showing promising business growth for entrepreneurs who signed up for the program. “After the first session of Xcelerator on customers, I was able to strike better conversations with my end retail customers, and was able to fetch new orders by talking about my products and my business value proposition. This has helped me scale up my business, in very little time,” shares Siddhant Pruthi, Entrepreneur, Robin International, an entrepreneur associated with the Xcelerator Ludhiana programme.

NEW DELHI: Three top brokerage firms - CLSA, Credit Suisse and Axis Capital - have assigned "Buy" or "Outperform" rating to the ITC stock.

NEW DELHI: German audio brand Sennheiser has announced it is looking for a new partner who can buy its consumer audio business (headphones and soundbars).

NEW DELHI: After the months-long lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 35-year-old Manjur Alam was expecting customers at his plant nursery, however, the farmers' protest at Singhu border has prolonged his agony.

SIBSAGAR: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday claimed that the three new central farm laws will help corporates and rich people grab agribusiness worth Rs 80 lakh crore in India.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand employers can receive government payments from Tuesday onwards over the absence of their workers who cannot work from home while awaiting a Covid-19 test result, according to a government statement issued on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Four more states -- Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab have undertaken "Ease of Doing Business" reforms stipulated by the finance ministry.
With this, these states have become eligible to mobilise additional financial resources and have been granted permission to raise additional Rs 5,034 crore through Open Market Borrowings.

DUBAI: : A Dubai court has sentenced an Indian businessman to two years in prison for offering a 200,000-dirham ($54,448) bribe to the police, a media report said on Monday.

SAN FRANCISCO: An impressive growth in its Azure Cloud business in a pandemic-hit year helped Microsoft post a 17 per cent increase in its revenue which reached $43.1 billion, with declaring a net income of $15.5 billion, for the quarter ended December 31, 2020.