My design journey started four years ago when I quit my job at a children’s sleep clinic to become a designer. I would read books about UX on my commutes to and from work. Every evening, I would spend 6 to 7 hours taking web development courses and learning what it meant to design. Everything […]

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Prices of TVs, ACs and some phones are set to go up as manufacturers grapple with component shortages.

"By March 2020, TV prices will be increased by 10 per cent due to the current Coronavirus crisis of China, there is a major shortage of raw materials along with a sharp 20 per cent increase in open cell panel prices," Avneet Singh Marwah, CEO of SPPL said.

While presenting the budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had proposed to hike the basic customs duty to 12.5 per cent from 10 per cent on compressor of refrigerator and air conditioner. In a residential AC, compressor and motor, which account for around 30 per cent of the price are imported, while sheet metal, coils and other are sourced locally.

From the glow of the once-admired brand the venture has seen its stock slip and slide.

Default of a Portugese bank, Ukraine-Russia face-off, developments in Middle East and signs of weakness in US economy have subdued investor sentiment.

Thanks to the increasing penetration of smartphones India is transitioning from a 'mobile first' to 'mobile only' country.

The increase in excise comes amid crude oil prices still remaining at relatively lower levels of $23.86 a barrel, compared to peak level prices.

On Tuesday, Centre hiked excise duties on petrol by Rs 10 per litre and on diesel by Rs 13 per litre.

The tax hike will generate an additional revenue of Rs 100 crore for the UT administration in 2020-21. After the revision in prices, petrol in the city now costs Rs 68.62 a litre, a hike of Rs 2.8, and diesel Rs 62.02 per litre, an increase of Rs 2.72.

Even though much of the stubble of wheat is used as animal fodder but farmers resort to open field burning to get rid of the leftover stalk. Around 11400 incidents of open field burning were recorded as per satellite imagery in Punjab and 7500 in Haryana last year post kharif harvest.

The fund's global CEO had blamed regulatory changes for its decision to shut 6 schemes.

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There have been numerous gazette notifications from Gadkari's ministry on land acquisition and other related issues to expedite work on national highways, bridges and flyovers

According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, state governments' gross market borrowings stood at Rs 6.08 trillion in 2019-20, up from Rs 4.78 trillion in 2018-19.

Adhesives, whiteners, nail polish removers, shoe polish used to get a high.

The state government will send out teams to various districts and adjoining areas of Kolkata.

A truck can carry up to 10 tonnes of potato.

"Only a gem can identify another gem. He (Modi) has identified the right person," Bhattacharjee said at a party rally.

While five elephants died on the spot, a pregnant had elephant sustained critical injury.

Yadav had Sunday said that MPs should be banned from making speeches in English in Parliament.

Meanwhile, the incident sparked protests from locals who blocked J N Mukherjee Road in Howrah.

Apart from several other issues, the decision of the ruling party to form a war crimes tribunal in 2009 is one of the reasons behind the existing turmoil.

Several departments of the state government faced sharp criticism from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday when she conducted a review session of each ministry to assess their performance and if they achieved their respective targets.

The death toll in Thursday''s bomb blast at Jalpaiguri rose to six when one of the injured undergoing treatment at North Bengal Medical College Hospital succumbed to his injuries Saturday.

Indian companies raised a total of Rs 2.81 lakh crore in fresh capital from equity and debt markets in the April-December period of 2012.

As the government battles to keep food inflation within manageable limits, the annual Economic Survey of the Finance ministry said that existing price support mechanism, should not be the sold tool to incentivize farming, but instead methods other ...

The Economic Survey today suggested the government reprioritise Plan and Non-Plan expenditure in its efforts to contain fiscal deficit at manageable levels.

Cargo traffic at ports during the six-month period ended September 2012 grew by just 1.8% to 455.8 million tonne due to decline in shipments handled at major ports, Economic Survey said today.

A proposal is being put in place for providing 100% government funding to developers so as to rescue the highways sector, where there are few takers because of severe equity crunch, Economic survey said today.

Resource mobilisation in the corporate debt category witnessed a significant decline as just Rs 4,974 crore was garnered through debt issues in the first nine months of the current fiscal, which was not even 10% of the total funds raised during ...

The over consumption of urea and limited use of phosphatic and potassic (P&K) fertilisers need to be addressed through appropriate price incentives by reducing subsidies to ensure sustainable practises are encouraged, Economic Survey said today.

The mutual fund industry has registered an increase of 29.4 per cent in the market value of its assets under management (AUM) during the first three quarters of the current financial year. According to the Economic Survey, the market value of the ...

Policy on price and procurement support should not encourage more production of abundant crops

There is a shortage of food across the world and experts are trying to come up with ways in which the shortfall in supplies can be made up.

Tomato and capsicum growers of Himachal Pradesh have lost some 40 to 60 per cent of their yield to fungal diseases so...

Farmers in the Kuttanad region have been faced with a host of hurdles, ranging from sowing to marketing of the produce.

Himachal''s apple revolution, which spawned an economy worth Rs 1,500 crore, has its roots in the Kotgarh belt in the upper Shimla region, 82 km from here.

While average rainfall figure for Uttarakhand between June and Sept stood at 1,199 mm, Doon valley received 2,240 mm

Earlier, sanitation of the field by removal and destruction of affected papaya plants was the only way adopted by the farmers to reduce the spread of the papaya mosaic virus disease. In some cases, losses were minimised by controlling the population of aphids.

The strawberry crop grown over hundreds of acres in Jammu is threatened by widespread fungal attacks.

While the crop''s acreage this season is highest ever in the country, the yield will now depend on weather conditions.

Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, is for the past one year, trying to find a way to control the gall disease that has affected almost 50 per cent of the eucalyptus trees.

Emu farmers struggle as they get focus wrong, while oil is yet to find a market

Equity funds account for 42 per cent and 52 per cent of AUMs for HDFC AMC and Nippon AMC, respectively

The number of Covid-19 patients in Dharavi, Mumbai's biggest slum sprawl, reached 808 on Friday as 25 more persons tested positive for the infection, a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. The death toll in the area also rose to 26, he said.