INDIAN BUSINESSES

Lessons from Toyota and Wistron: What not to do in Budget 2021 to win back business confidence

Automakers like Ford and GM feel unwanted, as evidenced in high taxes & levies on luxury car items.

Work from home to be new normal in 2021 too, HR managers keen on hiring: TimesJobs survey

Among those who stated that they would be working from home in 2021, about 50% said this would be followed for the next one year. As many a...

Working to improve ease of doing business with the Indian Railways: Piyush Goyal

Launching the Indian Railways’ freight business development portal, Goyal, who is the minister for railways, said that the government was l...

Indian CEOs to have muted New Year bash

Dabur India chairman Amit Burman is in Goa, enjoying the sun, sand and adventure sports with his extended family … wife, kids, sister and a...

Sluggish recovery for business hotels in India

As per data shared by RateGain, the contribution of key cities such as New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad to over...

New UK Covid strain infects Indian jet charter business

While about 11,000 passengers booked on commercial flights scheduled during these days have to reschedule or cancel plans, businessmen, act...

Big bets on India: Amazon, OneWeb, 24 others seek nod for space business

The proposals before IN-SPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre) range from permissions for ground stations, establ...

ET Industry Leaders East 2020: Celebrating businesses that help revive the economic growth in East India

ET Industry Leaders East 2020 is an initiative to discover the leaders from various industries in the eastern part of the country who have ...

Ratan Tata honoured with 'Global Visionary of Sustainable Business and Peace' award

Veteran industrialist Ratan Tata was conferred the title of "Global Visionary of Sustainable Business and Peace" by the Federation of Indo-...

Anil Agarwal's Vedanta and Centricus to invest $10 billion in Indian companies

In recent weeks, Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Group had expressed interest in acquiring Shipping Corporation of India, BPCL and in a separate dev...

Billionaire held for ransom to Mukesh Ambani's rival, the incredible story of Gautam Adani

Like other entrepreneurs, Adani repeatedly picked hot new industries that the govt was pushing to develop and where competition was relativ...

In times of pandemic, businesses are keeping in touch with clients by innovating on no-touch options

​​Keeping in step with the times, India Inc has come up with innovative processes to bring in business but keep the virus away.

COVID, cyber attacks, data fraud top threats for Indian corporates: Study

While there is great optimism about the ability of organisations to rebound and address future pandemic-related challenges, cyber attacks a...

Royal Enfield: Book tells story behind making of Indian biking giant

From the beginning of the brand's journey in India in the early 1950s, the Enfield bikes have had quite a ride. Initial success and accepta...

View: Is India ESG-ready? Firms seem to be getting serious about it

Organisations are increasingly taking ESG and sustainability-related disclosures seriously, thanks to the regulatory push. Work on other as...

Good business is about ethical standards, inclusivity: Mahindra Group study

​The study - based on the telephonic interviews with 2,089 respondents in business and professional sectors from 10 metro cities - was cond...

Gender equality tougher in Indian business families, says Shanu Hinduja

The eldest daughter of patriarch Srichand Parmanand (SP) Hinduja and Arunachaam spoke about their “fight for equality” at the Economic Time...