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Interestingly, fashion is the first category that most people buy online with nearly 30 per cent of new shoppers likely to start with apparel and footwear. Fashion e-commerce today is already sizeable at 4-5 per cent of the total fashion market and is comparable to sales from department stores put together.

Small city women to lead online fashion shopping

Online fashion commerce market to grow four-fold to Rs 2 lakh crore by the year-end.

8 Jan 2020 7:35 PM

Chlorpyrifos is an organophosphate pesticide (OP), banned in America for non-agricultural use. Ironically, several studies have found that OPs are indiscriminately being used in India even on fruit and vegetables, for which they have not been approved.

Insecticide banned in West still used in India

Chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl have been identified as possible causes of neurological damage in children.

10 Dec 2019 8:04 PM

Experts point out that heavy rain damaged the kharif oilseeds, especially soybean. Slow sowing in the current rabi season has triggered an upward trend in oil and oilseeds prices. Mustard, a crucial rabi oilseed, is sown during September-October and harvested from February, is also affected. Analysts feel oil and oilseeds prices may go up in the coming days. Mind you that prices of mustard seed have already soared to Rs 300 per quintal and soybean rates jumped by around Rs 400 per quintal.

After onion, itâ€™s turn of edible oil to give price shock

That-'s not all. Low productivity and heavy rainfall damage to crops in India is adding to the consumers-' woes.

8 Dec 2019 8:54 PM

Adding to the problems of the power generators, a new government in Andhra Pradeshwhich owes renewable energy firms more than any other statewants to renegotiate its contracts, saying the prices it pays are inflated.

P2P lending limit raised to Rs 50 lakh

The move aims at not only helping investors to diversify risk but also borrowers to get larger sums of loans.

5 Dec 2019 8:15 PM

The passenger car market is likely to remain fairly flat throughout 2020 and is expected to pick up from 2021.

Skoda sees flat market ahead

Skoda Auto Indiaâ€™s own sales dropped from 17000 units in 2018 to 15,000 units in 2019.

5 Dec 2019 1:17 AM

The phase-I is expected to be completed by March 2020. It will be followed by four more phases continuing year wise till March 2024. These phases would involve increasing the number of digitized publications by processing 100 volumes of collected works of Mahatma Gandhi, each volume containing several letters, speeches, chapters, etc. and further scaling up the social network construct for all of these hundred books.

Gandhi-giri comes full circle with bots and artificial intelligence

We will initially use his book My Experiments with Truth for reconstructing the social network: Prof Animesh Mukherjee.

3 Dec 2019 8:01 PM

The Centre had earlier set an export target of 6 million MT for sugar. But now, given the current situation, India is expected to export 3.5 million MT of sugar during SY2020. (Photo: AFP)

Estimates of 2020 sugar production, exports vary

In sync with the lower projected output, export projection has also been brought down.

1 Dec 2019 8:43 PM

Input tax credit can be used to offset the input tax with output tax. This aspect is exploited and it promotes the generation of fake invoices to claim input tax credit.

Tax sleuths wake up to fake invoice GST racket

The fake invoices are mainly B2B invoices. Here a seller sells a product to the genuine buyer (say A), without raising...

28 Nov 2019 7:52 PM

The combined effect of all this is that cement demand growth would taper to around 4 per cent in FY20 from 13.3 per cent in the previous fiscal.

Cement demand fails to pick up on multiple woes

In the northern and central regions, demand remained tepid due to slowdown in execution of government projects and...

27 Nov 2019 8:02 PM

Little wonder therefore that Emirates is using this popular buttery nut extensively in its international and regionally inspired cuisine, gracing its sumptuous dishes, beginning on November 23, the World Cashew Day.

Emirates offers Indian cashew delicacies to pax

This is not counting the tonnes of cashews the airline buys to include in its regional and international dishes,...

26 Nov 2019 7:56 PM

The NSO data suggests that the percentage of women in regular wages or as salaried employees has gone up to 58.2 per cent in the quarter ending March 2019, vis-a-vis 56.1 per cent in the year 2018, indicating a rise of 2.1 per cent in womens employment in urban India. Compared to this, the rise in mens employment for the same period stood at 1.5 per cent46.4 per cent in 2018 and 47.9 per cent for the quarter ending March 2019.

Womenâ€™s employability sees uptick

Barriers for increased womenâ€™s workforce participation is found relatively more in semi-urban and rural areas.

26 Nov 2019 7:34 PM

The Spices Board put the projected volume at a marginally higher level. The board, in its report submitted at the IPC meeting, pointed out that the Indian pepper production is likely to end with 48,000 tonne this year (2019-20) compared with 4.94,200 tonne of world production.

Imports putting pressure on domestic pepper prices

Karnataka accounts for nearly 50 per cent of the domestic pepper production and is followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

24 Nov 2019 8:40 PM