Oyo's new rule: Why India’s hotels must not surrender to the marriage policeOyo Hotels' decision to ban unmarried couples in Meerut, influenced by societal complaints and political pressures, highlights the challeng...
16 Jan, 2025, 08.36 AM IST
When euphemisms get tasty: How people have used words to combat food taboosFood euphemisms help with marketing too. Patagonian toothfish is delicious, but was never going to look good on menus; as Chilean sea bass,...
21 Jul, 2024, 03.38 PM IST
OTTisation of English: How OTT is changing the way urban India speaksListen to a high school student speak English in south Kolkata. It is now no different from the way her contemporary speaks in Gurgaon. The...
25 Jun, 2022, 11.01 PM IST
Future of recycling: Will swapping waste for meals work?Plastic bottles to pay for a meal? The idea need not be trashed.
02 Mar, 2021, 10.56 AM IST
Two Chinese cities sealed off to squash virus outbreakThe pandemic has so far broadly been brought to heel by Chinese authorities since its emergence in Wuhan in late 2019, with small outbreaks...
08 Jan, 2021, 02.34 PM IST
Work from home has made workday of Indians 32 minutes longerA survey of 65 countries by workplace software developer Atlassian found that people across the world were starting remote work earlier and...
29 Nov, 2020, 06.03 PM IST
S&P, Nasdaq close at new highs on Covid-19 treatment hopesThe benchmark S&P 500 reclaimed its February closing high last week, confirming a bull market and the fastest recovery from a bear market t...
25 Aug, 2020, 06.59 AM IST
The $22 billion spooking India's bond marketOfficially, Modi will end the fiscal year on March 31 with a deficit of roughly $90 billion.
04 Mar, 2019, 10.37 AM IST
Urjit Patel takes a u-turn as Guv; 4% inflation target on paper?Urjit Patel, in his first public engagement since taking over as governor from Raghuram Rajan last month, has laid out a new vision and pat...
04 Oct, 2016, 09.04 PM IST
`Me too’ startups & those lower in pecking order may find difficult to raise funding: Meena GaneshIn an e-mail interaction with ET, angel investor & entrepreneur Meena Ganesh, partner, GrowthStory.in & co-founder CEO – Portea Medical, di...
08 Apr, 2015, 04.12 PM IST
US losing tax revenues as food, beverage firms flee abroadThe US government too is mad as hell that Burger King is fleeing north, suspecting it is doing so because of lower taxes there.
28 Aug, 2014, 11.52 AM IST
- A scam in pulses import? CAG estimates Rs 1,200 crore loss on import of subsidised pulses
Can profit be skimmed from a policy conceived on the principle of loss, disguised as subsidy, for the larger objective of social welfare?
10 Mar, 2012, 04.06 AM IST
- Time the PM showed who is Raja
CAG report is a damning indictment of the minister's role in the controversy.
12 Nov, 2010, 05.27 AM IST
- Shopping in the ethical market
The carbon emissions offset business is anything but transparent. The offset surplus one pays goes into funds that most consumers are not s...
07 Nov, 2009, 01.02 PM IST
- Congress not to part with key ministries
Congress will not appease its allies at the cost of plum portfolios. NCP, DMK & Trinamool may have to settle for less than they hope. Rahul...
21 May, 2009, 07.15 AM IST
- Sydney delights: Eat up, down under
“What would you like to drink? Semillon? Verdelho? Shiraz? Cabernet Sauvignon?” The dimpled Kristina was standing by my table in Sydney’s F...
14 May, 2009, 04.14 AM IST
- Partition pains and tandoori gains
A friend’s grandmother once told him a story about Partition. She had been a young bride then, living in a Hindu family in Haryana.
11 Aug, 2007, 03.28 AM IST