business and finance Cognizant net income declines 17%; to hire 20,000 at entry-level in 2020 By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 08:45:00 +0530 The company is aiming to invest in business and would onboard around 20,000 entry-level executives in 2020 Full Article
business and finance Amid coronavirus lockdown, steel demand pick-up off to a slow start By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 12:11:00 +0530 Construction activities have resumed, albeit in a staggered manner; in some pockets there is demand for yellow goods as well Full Article
business and finance Aviation sector stares at Rs 25,000 cr revenue loss due to lockdown: Report By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 12:22:00 +0530 The losses would reverse the trend growth of 11% per annum the industry has logged over the past ten years, making it one of the most adversely affected sectors of the economy Full Article
business and finance RIL repositioning as consumer, tech co may push up stock price: J P Morgan By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:46:00 +0530 J P Morgan said that the core energy business could be staring at multi-year slump Full Article
business and finance Dr Reddy's gets USFDA inspection closure report fo Srikakulam unit By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 15:33:00 +0530 The plant is one of the company's three units that were served a warning letter in November 2015 for not following the prescribed operational and manufacturing quality standards Full Article
business and finance SBI Card and Payment Services Q4 profit slips 66% YoY to Rs 83.5 crore By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 16:36:00 +0530 Gross non-performing assets (GNPA) improved by 43bps to 2.01 per cent, the company said. Full Article
business and finance Uber loses $2.9 bn in coronavirus crisis, drops bike and scooter business By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:30:00 +0530 Demand for the Eats business grew 89 per cent in April, excluding India, and we've seen an enormous acceleration in demand since mid-March, Khosrowshahi said Full Article
business and finance Pharma export growth in FY20 down to single digit due to Covid: Pharmexcil By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:10:00 +0530 Export growth started declining in February and turned negative in March, at -23.24 per cent Full Article
business and finance Caspian Debt receives $20 mn from US govt agency as long-term debt By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:31:00 +0530 Caspian aims to use the funds to invest in under-served emerging enterprises and women-centric businesses. Full Article
business and finance India's plastic exporters eye China's market share in western world By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:33:00 +0530 India's share in the $1 trillion global plastic exports market is 1% currently, while China's is as much as 10% Full Article
business and finance Adani Gas Q4 PBT up 30% at Rs 156 cr, CNG volumes dip due to Covid-19 By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:59:00 +0530 With demand from industrial, commercial and transportation down, the hit on volumes is expected to be higher for the June quarter Full Article
business and finance We are better placed to withstand Covid-19 impact: Cognizant CEO Humphries By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:12:00 +0530 In a Q&A, Brian Humphries says his firm has handled the ransomware attack well and doesn't see any impact on client engagement Full Article
business and finance Cognizant posts 17% drop in net profit; Covid-19 to impact Q2 numbers By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:15:00 +0530 Among verticals, the highest growth in revenue during the quarter came from communications, media and technology, which grew 5.2 per cent to $626 million Full Article
business and finance NLC on war footing to operationalise boiler units after Thursday mishap By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:25:00 +0530 The company has asked an expert to investigate the mishap, even as two of the eight workmen who sustained injuries are under special care Full Article
business and finance IndiGo reinstates pay cuts, introduces leave without pay for senior staff By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:54:00 +0530 IndiGo had announced pay cuts for its senior employees on March 19. However, it rolled back the decision on April 23 Full Article
business and finance Carlyle Group to buy 74% in SeQuent Scientific for over Rs 1,500 crore By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:46:00 +0530 The transaction is being done through an equity purchase stake that values each share at Rs 86. Full Article
business and finance Vista Equity Partners to invest Rs 11,367 crore in Jio Platforms By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:53:00 +0530 Deal part of RIL plan to unlock 19% stake in Jio to become debt-free Full Article
business and finance Lockdown 3.0: Pharma hubs take extra precaution to tame Covid-19 outbreak By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:54:00 +0530 Recently, while 26 workers at Cadila Pharmaceuticals facility in Ahmedabad tested positive for Covid-19, one person at Sun Pharma's Halol plant tested positive. Full Article
business and finance MSME sector's bad loan ratio at 12.5% as of January, shows report By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 23:57:00 +0530 NPA level of public sector banks has increased from 18 per cent in December 2018 to 19 per cent in December 2019 Full Article
business and finance Covid-19 impact: SBI Cards' pre-tax profit dips 71% to Rs 112 cr in Q4 FY20 By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 00:08:00 +0530 Had it not been for Covid-19 impact, the company would have reported a sharp 80 per cent year-on-year jump in its pre-tax profit to Rs 692 core. Full Article
business and finance Saudi, US companies also eyeing stakes in Reliance's Jio Platforms By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 09:26:00 +0530 The deal could be completed as soon as this month, though no agreement has been finalised and plans may change Full Article
business and finance How India is ensuring uninterrupted supply of milk during Covid-19 lockdown By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 13:01:00 +0530 The cooperative model in India went out of the way to protect milk producers Full Article
business and finance Vizag plant stabilised, teams assisting govt to assess damage: L G Polymers By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:18:00 +0530 Apart from the 12 casualties on Thursday, the leakage had hundreds of people living closer to the plant in Visakhapatnam under medical emergency Full Article
business and finance Covid-19 impact: Facebook employees to work from home till 2020 end By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:41:00 +0530 Facebook CEO Zuckerberg had announced that the company is cancelling physical events with more than 50 people through June 2021 Full Article
business and finance ICICI Bank's standalone net profit rises 26% to Rs 1221 cr in Q4FY20 By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:52:00 +0530 Total income during the quarter under review increased to Rs 23,443.66 crore, from Rs 20,913.82 crore in the same period of the preceding fiscal Full Article
business and finance ICICI Bank pre-tax profit up 82% in Q4; provides heavily for Covid-19 By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 18:05:00 +0530 Excluding covid-19 related provisions, the profit after tax of the bank would have been Rs 3,260 crore Full Article
business and finance Albert Uderzo, 92, co-creator of French comic series Asterix, dies By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:35:00 +0530 Uderzo created Les Éditions Albert Rene two years after Goscinny's death, after a conflict with Dargaud, the pair's original publishing house Full Article
business and finance When you can't attend a performance, it comes to you: The show goes online By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:41:00 +0530 As the world lives out this dystopian drama - confined within the four walls of homes and isolated from spaces of art and culture - the classical and performing arts are not cut off by any means Full Article
business and finance So long, Nemai Ghosh; Goodbye, Satish Gujral - gentle men of art By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:52:00 +0530 Nemaida's misfortune in life was to be known as Satyajit Ray's "Boswell"; History will remember Gujral as a renaissance man whose imprint over New Delhi is huge Full Article
business and finance How volunteers are matching physical distancing with social solidarity By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:58:00 +0530 Within 24 hours of setting up a social media group and helpline called Caremongers India on March 20, Nagaraj had 150 volunteers from across India Full Article
business and finance The wash brigade: Inculcating a simple habit to fight coronavirus pandemic By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:08:00 +0530 As the world population feverishly washes hands, an initiative by a small NGO in Uttar Pradesh seems prescient Full Article
business and finance How Mumbai, the city that never sleeps, has been rendered somnolent By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:21:00 +0530 Neither rain nor riot, not even a terror attack such as the one on 26/11 or the 12 bomb blasts that ripped through it in 1993, have managed to clamp the city down. But this time the city has curled up Full Article
business and finance In this coronavirus lockdown, India feels like the calm before the storm By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 21:32:00 +0530 Strong social networks got India through the calamity of demonetisation. By not giving migrant workers enough time to get home, the govt has likely deprived them of this Full Article
business and finance Here's looking at you, grid By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:33:00 +0530 It is in the modern era that this book loses its lapidary elegance Full Article
business and finance The travails of those who ensure food reaches our tables in Covid-19 times By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:01:00 +0530 A highly contagious virus is in the air. But at this wholesale market, as in most others of the country, physical distance is hardly priority. Full Article
business and finance As riders go home amid lockdown, queue for e-grocery orders get longer By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:02:00 +0530 Online grocery, which is barely about four per cent of India's $600-700 billion grocery market, has seen an overnight surge. Full Article
business and finance Ideas on how to recalibrate celebrations in the time of isolation By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:28:00 +0530 The strangeness brought about by a work-from-home situation means the lines between the personal and professional blur too easily. Full Article
business and finance Tillotama Shome on 20 years in the charmed world of independent cinema By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:57:00 +0530 While the pandemic disrupts the India release of Sir, actor Tillotama Shome talks to Ranjita Ganesan about her twenty years in the charmed world of independent cinema Full Article
business and finance Free-for-all vs copyright By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:21:00 +0530 Last week, Internet Archive, a nonprofit group, announced that it would drop the access restrictions for its scanned books to make them widely available to readers during the coronavirus outbreak. Full Article
business and finance Finding mask a daunting task amid coronavirus. Should you make your own? By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:45:00 +0530 While we don't have a lot of research on the effectiveness of homemade masks in preventing the spread of infection, scientists who study airborne diseases can offer some guidance. Full Article
business and finance The mind of American conservatism By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:08:00 +0530 The volume's focus is confined to the 20th century, with its earliest selection from 1907 Full Article
business and finance Frames per Second: The long walk home By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:18:00 +0530 The precarious existence of millions of people in the unorganised sector was thrown into sharp relief by the lockdown Full Article
business and finance Age of anxiety: Mental health is the next looming crisis in Covid-19 times By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:47:00 +0530 It needs swift, sensible attention, writes Nikita Puri Full Article
business and finance In caring company: Firms make working from home stress free and fun By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 19:59:00 +0530 Some companies have engaged doctors and therapists to talk to employees over webinars and answer questions related to the virus. Full Article
business and finance Hong Kong's success against Covid-19: A tutorial for India and the world By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:54:00 +0530 The small city state has benefited from lessons learned after it was the epicentre of the SARS epidemic, keeping infections to less than 1,000, writes Rahul Jacob Full Article
business and finance How the police are enforcing the lockdown with iron fist and velvet glove By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:56:00 +0530 The coronavirus crisis has presented police across Indian states an opportunity to enhance their presence and impact on social media. Full Article
business and finance End runs in End Times By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 23:29:00 +0530 Mr O'Connell's timing was either a bit premature or just right. In the last three months a global pandemic has already killed tens of thousands Full Article
business and finance How isolation and WFH have deepened our engagement with work and people By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:41:00 +0530 Covid-19 and its aftermath are an opportunity to significantly reorient the way we approach work and leisure - and, by extension, life itself. Full Article
business and finance How a bunch of outfits are still getting organic produce to your doorstep By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 20:51:00 +0530 Ritwik Sharma on the outfits that are bringing organic farm produce to your doorstep during the lockdown Full Article
business and finance Art sales haven't been entirely dampened, they're just moving online By www.business-standard.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 21:31:00 +0530 Overseas and here, auction houses are capitalising on the fact that collectors are stuck at home - and are online. Full Article