DPIIT seeks inputs on ecomm FDI; ETSA 2025 Bootstrap Champ bets on AI, talentHappy Tuesday! The central government is seeking inputs from ecommerce and retail players on foreign investment rules. This and more in tod...
14 Oct, 2025, 10.08 AM IST
Regional food brands embrace quick commerce for nationwide reach amid festive surgeRegional and hyperlocal food and beverage brands are increasingly partnering with quick commerce platforms like Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Inst...
28 Aug, 2024, 08.52 AM IST
Agritech startup Two Brothers Organic Farms raises Rs 58.2 crore from Nithin Kamath’s RainmatterTwo Brothers Organic Farms, an agritech startup, has raised Rs 58.2 crore in funding led by Nithin Kamath's Rainmatter Foundation. The roun...
27 Jun, 2024, 09.50 PM IST
Akshay Kumar, Virendra Sehwag invest in Two Brothers Organic FarmsAkshay Kumar, Virendra Sehwag and some other high net worth individuals have invested a total of Rs 14.5 crore as part of a pre-Series A fu...
22 Apr, 2023, 02.30 PM IST
Pursuit of happiness: This marketing professional quit his 9-5 job to start a $4mn organic farming businessThirty-two-year old Satyajit Hange quit his high-paying job to do farming.
11 Nov, 2022, 03.02 PM IST
Why can't Indian filmmakers make documentary films?Ironically, FD was merged with three other government-run media units into the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) this March. Oth...
28 May, 2022, 10.32 AM IST
Strawberry fields forever : A crop of elite Indian farmers are inviting guests on day trips to their organic farmsPeople across age categories have an opportunity via either free or paid visits to these farms to come and learn about a healthier way of l...
08 Feb, 2020, 09.56 AM IST
TMC's on statue-building spree to counter BJP's Hindutva agendaOver 30 new statues have either been already erected or are in the process of being built in North Kolkata alone, while several more are be...
11 Dec, 2019, 12.30 PM IST
World's longest running photographic studio Bourne and Shepherd calls it a dayBourne and Shepherd studio, which is 176 years old, not only chronicled Kolkata's history but also captured defining moments of the Raj.
17 Jun, 2016, 11.32 AM IST
Tollywood celebs turn restaurateurs, open food-joints across IndiaFrom Sudipa Chatterjee to Dev, celebs are following the footsteps of Bollywood stars and venturing into hotel and restaurant business.
15 Jan, 2016, 02.41 PM IST
Moga death: Badals' multi-crore stake in wide-ranging businessesThe Badal clan has multi-crore stakes in businesses ranging from transport, hospitality to media, ventures that have yielded significant ga...
05 May, 2015, 09.40 AM IST
Tollywood sees a revival with new genre of directors and multiplexesThe Tollygunge film industry in Kolkata, aka Tollywood, is on a rapid growth track – hang the slowdowns, downturns, depreciations and what ...
07 Sep, 2013, 12.29 PM IST
Negotiating treacherous financial markets requires more semantics than economicsBernanke also has to manage constituencies within the Fed and foreign nations concerned about the impact of US policies on their economies.
04 Jul, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
Financing US debt: Foreign buyers may have to rethink their positions as dollar loses valueUS is now deploying its FMDs, ‘financial extortion’, ‘monetisation’ and ‘devaluation,’ to finance its requirements.
27 Dec, 2012, 08.15 AM IST
Knowing the decisive momentWhy do some people suddenly opt out of doing what they’re doing so successfully? Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin & Hobbes, a comic st...
08 Dec, 2009, 03.20 AM IST
- Small filmmakers outdoing monster movies at box-office
The movies that are actually working today are not these big, flashy types but the humble sloggers, the ones that no one ever thought had a...
19 Oct, 2008, 12.15 PM IST
- Riding the big cat
He is the dream candidate to lead a sportswear maker. Puma India MD is into all kinds of adventure sports - paragliding, roller coaster rid...
16 Jun, 2007, 02.28 AM IST