India detects new 'double mutant' variant of COVID-19

India has detected a new 'double mutant' COVID-19 variant in states like Maharashtra and Delhi as it recorded the highest ever one-day spike in cases and deaths from the disease this year with the......

BJP releases Gujarat manifesto on the eve of voting

A day before the first phase of polling in Gujarat, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday released its election manifesto with a slew of promises for various sections of society, which......

Modi's day out in Manila

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a packed schedule in Manila. The PM, who arrived in the Philippines on Sunday, is here to attend the ASEAN-India and the East Asia summits. On his second day of......

Why West Bengal's coronavirus mortality rate is high

Social stigma and low testing are the key reasons for the high mortality rate among COVID-19 patients in West Bengal, where the disease, like elsewhere in the country, is still an urban phenomenon,......

Dabur acquires US-based Namaste Group for $100 mn

FMCG major Dabur India said it has acquired US-based personal care firm Namaste Laboratories LLC and its three subsidiary companies for USD 100 million (about Rs 451 crore)."This acquisition is in......

Many challenges for HUL's new boss

Sanjiv Mehta has cut himself an unusual career for a chartered accountant. Rather than move up the echelons of finance management, he was part of crisis management at his first employer, and then......

Use pre-paid cards to pay octroi: Maran

Application of telematics in the form of pre-paid cards can help reduce the serpentine queues to pay octroi and toll tax, said Dayanidhi Maran, Minister for Communication and Information......

'Digital payments have become a fashion statement'

N Sundaresha Subramanian digs deeper into what Catalyst, an Indo-US project, brings to the payments ecosystem. IMAGE: The fast changes in technology are making payments a confusing sector for......