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Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, B.L. Verma said calls to the National Consumer Helpline (NCH) rose more than tenfold. Over 17,500 complaints of fake, duplicate and counterfeit products sold on e-commerce platforms have been recorded since 2022, with the highest — 7,221 cases — reported in the first half of 2025, the Union […]

With over 1,800 GCCs employing nearly two million professionals, more global enterprises are doubling down on innovation in GCCs. Far from being a mere support function, India’s GCCs have turned into a formidable sector driving cutting-edge innovation, groundbreaking research, development and digital transformation. For instance, Mercedes-Benz’s India R&D hub exemplified this shift by leveraging a […]

Mr. Trump also slapped a penalty – an unspecified over and above the 25% on America’s “friend” for buying “a vast majority of their military equipment” and oil from Russia. India will pay a 25% tariff on goods exported to the United States from August 1, Donald Trump decreed on Truth Social, the social media network owned by the US […]

In today’s fast-evolving workplace—where physical and digital boundaries continue to blur—leadership is no longer just about making decisions; it’s about making sense of complexity.  Bala Vummidi, Senior Vice President – Human Resources at Gorilla Technology Group, believes that the most effective leaders are those who lead through the lens of the 4Cs: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication and […]

The ‘Viksit Bharat’ vision entails becoming a high-income society that empowers citizens to realize their potential and aspirations, for which India’s demographic dividend is to be effectively leveraged, says Niti Aayog, Vice Chairman, Suman Bery. Increasing labor productivity is central to India’s aspiration of becoming a developed nation in about two decades, as it would […]

The orders issued this month have selected Ministries ranging from Home Affairs under Amit Shah to Rural Development, headed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan, to move to Building 3 – currently named CCS-03 – on Kartavya Path. The scale of the shift will be even larger than when most of Lutyens’ Delhi’s present crop of Government […]

Among other things, the policy lays down that new residential buildings must provide EV charging facilities and also offers incentives such as toll waiver for these eco-friendly vehicles. The new Electric Vehicle (EV) policy of the Maharashtra Government seeks to achieve 30% EV penetration in the State by 2030, officials said on Saturday. The Transport […]

Called the world’s largest entrepreneurial train journey, the Jagriti Yatra is a special train in India that is aimed to grow the community of entrepreneurs in India by immersing them in India of small towns and villages. This year, the yatra will start on November 7 and run till November 22. Once a year, a […]

In a significant development, India’s coastline has officially been revised to 11,098.81 kms, marking an increase of 3,537.21 kms or nearly 50% from the previous measurement of 7,561.60 kms. With this revision, the coastline of Gujarat, which is the longest in the nation is no longer 1,600 kms; it is now over 2,300 kms. The […]

Not only is entrepreneurship in India very different from what it is in the United States, but it is also a different ball game as compared to salaried employment in the world’s fifth largest economy. With stable, salaried employment in the public and in the private sector a thing of the past, the core of […]